An Historical Flop Flips Back into Existence: Vernon Duke's Sweet Bye and Bye

When scientists open the capsule, a document is discovered which gives a controlling share in the world's most profitable candy-making cartel to the heir and namesake of the company's original founder. [...]enters the musical's lead, Solomon Bundy, a Candide-like simpleton, employed as an arborist in a world with few surviving trees. A pair of Futurosy company secretaries, out-of-work CEO-types at an "Executives Anonymous" meeting, a tramp riding the cargo holds of interplanetary space liners like a railroad hobo, and an Eskimo princess who tries to seduce Solomon-each receives a musical number, and indeed their songs are often quite good.