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Take in "Hollywood's Tough Guy in Tap Shoes" with Off-Broadway's Cagney the Musical at the Westside Theater

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Image Credit: Cagney On a recent wandering to New York City to take photos and gather information for an upcoming magazine feature I'm working on, my distracted sidekick - aka cousin Amy - and I decided that it had been way too long since we'd taken in a show and we should amend that. As the last one we'd been to was the 2002 revival of Oklahoma! at the Gershwin Theater you could say that yea, it had been awhile! Once upon a time we used to love to go to Broadway shows - always musicals and generally the classic ones - but over the years they had just become too expensive for us poor working-class gals to afford once you factor in the cost of getting down to the city, etc. As that hasn't really changed over the years, with a play or two in mind that we'd like to see, the plan for this trip was to take a wait-and-see-what-we-can-get-at-the-TKTS-booth attitude while keeping our fingers crossed that we'd be able to see one of our choices if not necessarily ...