In contrastthewordcamaraderiewhich comes from thesamesourceascomrademeans “familiarity” and sort of a team or groupfeeling, a warmth, andhasnever taken on a communist sense.
The show plays like an old-fashioned backstage musical: we see thecamaraderie and the competition among the women, the old saw of an older woman feeling threatened by a younger one, and the kinds of bits that are thrown in to show, in cheeky shorthand, how times are changing.