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A '60s-era musical like Anthony Newley's and Leslie Bricusse's "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off" makes that decade feel very far away, and the new production for the A&E channel's "Clairol on Broadway" series pushes us away even further.
Indeed, the show and the whole A&E project serve up one fat question mark. Or several of them.
Why this incredibly dated work, replete with a truckload of sexist sympathies and Cold War references to "the Soviet Union" and "East Berlin"? Why the casting of the vocally strained Peter Scolari as the...