The more stylized approaches of traditional “Streetcar” revivals aren’t just frippery.

Belafonte turned the famous into folks, mixing the frippery of the format with the gravitas of the moment.

The sums of money being blown on fripperies are staggering.

It doesn’t much go in for fripperies like character and narrative and sense.

Like even the lousiest Regency-era frippery, it has its intermittent pleasures, most of them visual.