revue

Called CineVita, the 15,000 square-foot double-decker tent is the new home of the theatrical production company For the Record, which for the past 15 years has staged live musical revues of beloved film soundtracks.

Rather than assemble a soup-to-nuts tale hamstrung by chronology, he shrewdly offers up her story as an all-star revue about her ascent.

But the closing of her beloved revue is coming at the worst possible moment for Shelly as she stares down the end of her fifties.

New York Times critic Stanley Kauffmann called her performance in the 1966 “It’s a Bird... It’s a Plane... It’s Superman” “pure imp”: “I wish she were in every musical and revue.”

The musical can be seen as preparing the way for “The Carol Burnett Show,” the legendary variety program that made musical comedy revue a staple of Saturday night television in the 1970s.