What: 'Tomfoolery,' Stagelight Productions Where: Kennedy Theatre, Progress Energy Center, Raleigh When: Friday through Oct. 26. By Roy C. Dicks, Correspondent Comment on this story RALEIGH - Stagelight Productions, formerly of the San Francisco Bay Area, makes its Triangle debut with the North Carolina premiere of "Tomfoolery," a revue with songs by Tom Lehrer, the iconoclastic social and political humorist of the 1950s and 1960s. Lehrer's fame came from his LPs of wickedly satiric compositions, such as "Smut," "The Vatican Rag," and "National Brotherhood Week," poking fun at censorship, religion and prejudice. Beloved by college students and anti-establishment types, his equal-opportunity-offender songs gained a new audience when Cameron Mackintosh adapted them into "Tomfoolery" in 1980. Establishing a new theater in a...
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