Editing Born Yesterday (play) (section)

=== Watergate Era ===
According to theatre scholar Jordan Schildcrout, the Watergate scandal brought renewed interest in ''Born Yesterday'', with a surge of productions in the early 1970s starring [[Betty Grable]], [[Sandy Dennis]], [[Chita Rivera]], and [[Karen Valentine]] at major regional theatres, as well as [[Lynn Redgrave]] in a London revival directed by [[Tom Stoppard]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=In the Long Run: A Cultural History of Broadway's Hit Plays|last=Schildcrout|first=Jordan|publisher=Routledge|year=2019|isbn=978-0367210908|location=New York and London|pages=95}}</ref> The critic Michael Billington noted, "With the Watergate scandal coming to a head, the play suddenly seems as fresh and relevant as the day it was written."<ref>{{Cite news|title=Review: Born Yesterday|last=Billington|first=Michael|date=21 April 1973|work=The Guardian}}</ref> Kanin himself later asserted, "When the play was written it was a fable, but after Watergate it became a documentary."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/21/theater/theater-born-yesterday-is-reborn-in-chicago.html |first=Eugene |last=Kennedy |title='Born Yesterday' Reborn in Chicago |page=5 (Section 2) |newspaper=The New York Times |date=21 February 1988 |access-date=2023-05-18}}</ref>