smart set

Read: Honor Levy’s “My First Book” captures the quiet desperation of today’s smart set.

Days earlier, Condé Nast folded Pitchfork, once a kingmaker among music’s smart set, into GQ magazine and laid off employees, including the editor in chief.

As time went on, though, “Abie’s Irish Rose” lived long enough to generate what Schildcrout called “a begrudging respect” for the play among the smart set.

David Zinn contributes a smart set design, with a central, rounded brick apartment building whose walls part to reveal street scenes, hotel suites and showgirl-filled stages.

But his niche in the niche-songwriting world of the cabaret smart set, when such a breed still existed, was lofty.