chorine

Instead of the Broadway chorines of the original, her mermaid siblings are a multiethnic, runway-ready General Assembly.

No one was remotely surprised when Rob Marshall’s flashily entertaining Broadway-to-Hollywood adaptation won six Oscars, including best picture and best supporting actress for Catherine Zeta-Jones, so riveting as the murderous chorine Velma Kelly.

Nor are Fierstein’s anachronisms and vulgar jokes about sex with chorines and men in trench coats catastrophic.

Powell sings to each chorine with affable leers, arm squeezes and a suggestive tug of his bow tie.

We meet communists and chorines, anonymous women gazing into shop windows, the anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells as a young woman.