At intermission of the Broadway-bound revival starring Christina Applegate, I was picturing this review as something celebrating the return of the golden age of the Broadway musical. I was ready to declare that this production returns to us the joys of a character-driven, hit-song laden star vehicle and that the last great musical of its era opened not in 1959 with Gypsy) or 1964 with Fiddler, but in 1966 with this underrated and little-performed piece. I still believe all of those things, but I wish the creative team - and that must include Neil Simon, who revised his original book, and the late composer Cy Coleman who passed away last November and was closely involved with the production - had the same confidence in the original. In the second act, they make some significant departures that soften its edge and that will surely be controversial.