The Gershwins’ Hard-Hitting Anti-War Satire, ‘Strike Up the Band,’ To Get Rare Performance at Carnegie Hall Tuesday
The vintage show takes aim at multiple institutions: Big business, government, international relations, the military, war, and even pacifism.
“Satire is what closes on Saturday night,” George Kaufman famously said. He should know. Still, as a NYU theater professor and Kaufman scholar, Laurence Maslon, puts it, “There has never been a Saturday night in the last century when one of his satires wasn’t running somewhere in the world.”
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