Blue leather booths line the walls covered with Al Hirschfeld drawings, underneath dark wood molding contrasted with a modern splash of blue light at the ceiling's edge.

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The show that opened Thursday at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre is so full of good will did you expect anything less from Lauper or Fierstein?

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Also present that night was the caricaturist Al Hirschfeld, and after a few drinks actually, after quite a lot of drinks Hirschfeld and Kael started quibbling about the uses of movie criticism.

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