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  • Don knows he can't sing as well as the captain (who I believe was actually dubbed) -- not unless Jon Hamm has been hiding his musical-comedy chops under a bushel -- but he can surely envision the parallel even though he's not a wealthy, retired Austrian naval officer about to surreptitiously emigrate to Switzerland rather than serve the Third Reich as a U-boat commander.

    William Bradley: Mad Men's Surprising Yet Logical Finale: Don Draper Goes All Cali in 'Tomorrowland' William Bradley 2010

  • Don knows he can't sing as well as the captain (who I believe was actually dubbed) -- not unless Jon Hamm has been hiding his musical-comedy chops under a bushel -- but he can surely envision the parallel even though he's not a wealthy, retired Austrian naval officer about to surreptitiously emigrate to Switzerland rather than serve the Third Reich as a U-boat commander.

    William Bradley: Mad Men's Surprising Yet Logical Finale: Don Draper Goes All Cali in 'Tomorrowland' William Bradley 2010

  • Rock has been the lingua franca of American popular music for well over four decades, yet Broadway 's musical-comedy craftsmen are still trying to figure out how to put on stage what the baby boomers have been listening to ever since Lyndon Johnson was in the White House.

    Emo-cracy Comes to Broadway Terry Teachout 2010

  • Don knows he can't sing as well as the captain (who I believe was actually dubbed) -- not unless Jon Hamm has been hiding his musical-comedy chops under a bushel -- but he can surely envision the parallel even though he's not a wealthy, retired Austrian naval officer about to surreptitiously emigrate to Switzerland rather than serve the Third Reich as a U-boat commander.

    William Bradley: Mad Men 's Surprising Yet Logical Finale: Don Draper Goes All Cali in 'Tomorrowland' William Bradley 2010

  • Don knows he can't sing as well as the captain (who I believe was actually dubbed) -- not unless Jon Hamm has been hiding his musical-comedy chops under a bushel -- but he can surely envision the parallel even though he's not a wealthy, retired Austrian naval officer about to surreptitiously emigrate to Switzerland rather than serve the Third Reich as a U-boat commander.

    William Bradley: Mad Men 's Surprising Yet Logical Finale: Don Draper Goes All Cali in 'Tomorrowland' William Bradley 2010

  • Keep in mind that six of the 13 Globe categories are split into drama and musical-comedy - which allows for twice as many chances to be "right."

    Robert J. Elisberg: The PreCurse of the Golden Globes Rides Again Robert J. Elisberg 2011

  • Whenever I see a musical-comedy audience consisting mainly of senior citizens and small chidren, as was the case in Philadelphia last Sunday, I can't help but remember the galvanizing originality of productions like the "Our Town"-flavored "Carousel" that Charles Newell staged at Chicago's Court Theatre in 2007, or Bill Rauch's high-concept "Music Man" at the 2009 Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

    A 'King' That Is Full of Aces Terry Teachout 2011

  • All of which brings us to Mr. Hearn, a Broadway veteran better known for his musical-comedy performances he replaced Len Cariou in "Sweeney Todd" and created the role of Albin in "La Cage aux Folles" than for his straight acting.

    The Kids Are All Wrong Terry Teachout 2011

  • Not Mel Sagrado Maghuyop, a Filipino-American musical-comedy singer who neither looks nor sounds like Brynner he has a higher-pitched voice and is shorter than Rachel York, his leading lady.

    A 'King' That Is Full of Aces Terry Teachout 2011

  • Don knows he can't sing as well as the captain (who I believe was actually dubbed) -- not unless Jon Hamm has been hiding his musical-comedy chops under a bushel -- but he can surely envision the parallel even though he's not a wealthy, retired Austrian naval officer about to surreptitiously emigrate to Switzerland rather than serve the Third Reich as a U-boat commander.

    William Bradley: Mad Men's Surprising Yet Logical Finale: Don Draper Goes All Cali in 'Tomorrowland' William Bradley 2010

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