Saw the City Opera production of this show last night. Enjoyed myself, though I can't say I loved the production. Paul Sorvino was not in good voice, and the whole thing was low energy. Tom Savage, who's a former actor and has done the show, says it moves faster on Broadway than on an opera stage, and I think it needed that. But I do want to comment on this: the emotional nuance, the show's understanding of the characters and how complex peoples' feelings are, was incredibly sophisticated. I'm not sure what accounts for it: Frank Loesser, who wrote it, was also responsible for GUYS AND DOLLS, which, though it's one of my favorite shows, is pretty straightforward boy-gets-girl stuff. He also did HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING, though. So maybe it was the times, or maybe it's the times now -- I don't think a musical with this many loose ends, this level of tentativeness and lack of happy ending for some of the characters would get very far on Broadway today.