Ankles Aweigh

[2] The producers immediately posted a closing notice, but theatre owner Anthony Brady Farrell decided to keep the show running with his own financing.Broadway columnists Walter Winchell's and Ed Sullivan's glowing reports failed to generate much business, and when salaries were cut to keep losses to a minimum, most of the major players quit in protest.When they reach Morocco, they run into Bill's jealous Moroccan ex-girlfriend, Lucia ("Headin' for the Bottom"), who is now the mistress of the leader of an espionage ring.With the help of her sister and his buddies, Wynne and Bill eventually find a way to absolve him of the charges, he becomes a hero, and they live happily ever after ("Eleven O'Clock Song")."[citation needed] A review in the New York Post was equally critical: "My impression of Ankles Aweigh is that it has neither the brightness and wit to be satisfying as satire or the charm to be winning as nostalgia."[7] A more mixed assessment from William Hawkins writing in the New York World–Telegram and Sun praised the costumes, saying "every girl in it had the choice of a lifetime dress to wear.
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