Tom Lehrer decided that political satire was obsolete when Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Prize…..for Peace.
Hit and Run Theatre opened Poisoning Pigeons in the Park, a Musical Review of Tom Lehrer’s songs, directed by Arne Zaslove with Musical Direction by John Engerman at West of Lenin Theatre in Fremont, on Thursday night.
A mathematician by training, Tom Lehrer was a songwriter who specialized in extremely risque social and political satire, from the late 40’s to the early‘60’s, when the definition of risqué was completely different from what it is now.
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