Somebody on one of the book of face pages, I think it was Forgotten Musicals, was saying that Dance a Little Closer couldn't revived because of the dated book. Well, I'm listening to a collection of horror stories on planes called Flight or Fright, and one is by Joe Hill, Stephen King's son. It's nothing but Lerner's version of Idiot's Delight with us getting into nuclear war with North Korea, then Russia and China. Very topical and very scary.
I'm not saying Lerner's book writing was any good on it, but dated it ain't.