'Something Wonderful' unpacks the magic behind Rodgers and Hammerstein

The great Broadway critic and occasional gadfly Walter Kerr used to refer to the shaggy old concept of “Broadway magic” as an empty phantasm; “you're dressed in your finest,” he'd go on, “you've had your fill of Intermission champagne, you're elbow-in-elbow with somebody who may end up being the love of your life, the show is over but the evening is still young – you'll feel a 'magic' that isn't really there” – adding, almost parenthetically, “ …