Best Bets on Broadway

As much Broadway landmarks as shows are Life with Father, Oklahoma!, The Voice of the Turtle. Other highlights:

Annie Get Your Gun. Seeworthy musical with Ethel Merman as both rudder and sail (TIME, May 27).

Call Me Mister. Quondam G.I.s, male & female, celebrating their return to civilian life (TIME, April 29).

Born Yesterday. Amusing yarn about a big-shot racketeer who decides to have his dumb blonde educated and picks too good a teacher (TIME, Feb. 18).

Show Boat. Still a captivating musicomedy, with probably the best loved of all musicomedy scores (TIME, Jan. 14).

State of the Union. Lively topical comedy of a straight-shooting would-be President, saved from tne party bosses by a clever wife (TIME, Nov. 26).

Carousel. Charming Down East-in-the-'70s musical transplantation of Liliom (TIME, April 30, 1945).

The Glass Menagerie. Touching, tragicomic picture of a shabby-genteel family, with Laurette Taylor superb as the mother (TIME, April 9, 1945).

Harvey. Delightful fantasy of a gentle drinking man whose buns beget a 6 ft. 1 1/2in. bunny (TIME, Nov. 13, 1944).

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