‘South Pacific,’ ‘Gypsy,’ ‘Sunday in the Park’ - Again, for the First Time

NYTimes.com: "WHEN your high school English teachers talked about the rewards of revisiting the classics, they probably didn’t mean musicals. Most likely they were referring to fat, dense novels (“Middlemarch,” “Anna Karenina”) and long, lofty plays (“Hamlet,” “Long Day’s Journey Into Night”): works of weight, they liked to tell us, dragging out a favorite dog-eared phrase, with “universal human truth.”"