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Author Archives: David Fick
Forgotten Musicals Friday: THE GARRICK GAIETIES
THE GARRICK GAIETIES was an important stepping stone in the career of Rodgers and Hart owing to its introduction (by Sterling Holloway and June Cochrane) of what was arguably their first runaway hit, “Manhattan”. Continue reading
Posted in Forgotten Musicals Friday
Tagged A Lonely Romeo, Arthur Sullivan, Benjamin Kaye, Calvin Coolidge, Dudley Digges, Edith Meiser, Herbert Fields, Howard Green, June Cochrane, Lorenz Hart, Mana Zucca, Morrie Ryskind, Philip Loeb, Poor Little Ritz Girl, Richard Rodgers, Sam Jaffe, Scopes trial, Sterling Holloway, The Garrick Gaieties, Theatre Guild
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The Saturday List: 10 Times the Musical Challenged Its Dismissal as a Relevant Art Form
Although many people dismiss the musical as a relevant form of artistic expression, the musical can easily hold its own alongside any form of theatre you might care to mention. So I thought that today, I might put together a Saturday list of just ten times musicals have been completely in step with the world around them. Continue reading
Posted in The Saturday List
Tagged Adolph Green, Andrew Lippa, Betty Comden, Blood Brothers, Camp David, David Kramer, District Six, Dreamgirls, Edward Said, Elliot Norton, Follies, Fun Home, George C. Wolfe, Gone With the Wind, Harvey Milk, Henry Krieger, Idi Amin, James Goldman, James Michener, Jeanine Tesori, Jerome Kern, John Weidman, Kat and the Kings, Leonard Bernstein, Lisa Kron, Michael John LaChiusa, Musical Theatre, Oklahoma!, On the Town, Oscar Hammerstein, Oscar Hammerstein II, Pacific Overtures, Richard Rodgers, Show Boat, Sono Osato, South Pacific, Stephen Sondheim, Taliep Petersen, The Wild Party, Tom Eyen, Trevor Nunn, Watergate, Willy Russell
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Forgotten Musicals Friday: POOR LITTLE RITZ GIRL
POOR LITTLE RITZ GIRL was the first Broadway show that showcased Rodgers and Hart’s talents to any great extent. Continue reading
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Tagged A Lonely Romeo, Alex Gerber, David Bennett, Fly With Me, Forgotten Musicals Friday, George Campbell, Henry Stillman, Joseph Meyer, Lew Fields, Lorenz Hart, Ned Wayburn, Patti LuPone, Poor Little Ritz Girl, Richard Rodgers, SIgmund Romberg, Sunset Boulevard, Vincent Bryan, Where the Good Songs Go, William O'Neill
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The Saturday List: Multiple Best Actress in a Musical Tony Winners
Today, there is something of a diva-off at Musical Cyberspace. For this week’s Saturday list, we’re going to rank the multiple-Tony Award winners in the Best Actress in a Musical category, mentioning and sharing video clips of some favourite performances. Continue reading
Posted in The Saturday List
Tagged 42nd Street, Angela Lansbury, Annie, Bella Spewack, Bernadette Peters, Blythe Danner, Camelot, Charles Strouse, Chita Rivera, Christine Ebersole, Cole Porter, Donna Murphy, Faith Prince, Fred Ebb, Grease, Grey Gardens, Gwen Verdon, Harrigan and Hart, I Do! I Do!, John Kander, Kelli O'Hara, LaChanze, Lauren Bacall, Leave it To Me, Lee Adams, Les Misérables, Little Women, Liza Minnelli, Love Thy Neighbor, Marla Schaffel, Mary Martin, Oklahoma!, On the Twentieth Century, Patti LuPone, Peter Pan, Randy Graff, Sam Spewack, Shrek, South Pacific, Sutton Fost, The Drowsy Chaperone, The Producers, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Sound of Music, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Tony Awards, Violet, Young Frankenstein
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Forgotten Musicals Friday: FLY WITH ME
For the first Forgotten Musicals Friday of 2022, we’re jumping back in time more than 100 years to take a look at an early Rodgers and Hart show, one that had some of the first Rodgers and Hammerstein songs thrown in for fun: FLY WITH ME. Continue reading
The Saturday List: The Best WEST SIDE STORY on Record
To mark the release of Steven Spielberg’s new film and its accompanying motion picture soundtrack, Musical Cyberspace is revisiting a favourite topic: just which recording of West Side Story is ‘the gold-medal kid with the heavyweight crown? Continue reading
Posted in Broadway, Cast Recording Reviews, The Saturday List
Tagged Ansell Elgort, Ariana DeBose, Arthur Laurents, Broadway, Carol Lawrence, Caroline O'Connor, Cast Recordings, Chita Rivera, David Newman, Gustavo Dudamel, Jerome Robbins, Jim Bryant, Larry Kert, Leonard Bernstein, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Marni Nixon, Mike Faist, Rachel Ziegler, Rita Moreno, Stephen Sondheim, Tony Kushner, West Side Story
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THE SATURDAY LIST: Five Favourite “Small Cast” Shows
For today’s Saturday List, I thought it might be fun to take a look at some “small cast” shows. By their very nature, these shows are more intimate than the big musicals that play the biggest houses on Broadway, in the West End and internationally. Some are introspective, others are side-splittingly funny – but many are just as moving as their classic, big, blockbuster counterparts. Continue reading
Posted in The Saturday List
Tagged A Christmas Story, A Grand NIght for Singing, Adam Gwon, Benj Pasek, Craig Lucas, Dear Evan Hansen, Dogfight, Edges, Gregg Edelman, Jason Robert Brown, Justin Paul, Marry Me a Little, Martin Vidnovic, Mrs Dalloway, Norman René, Ordinary Days, Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim, The Greatest Showman, The Last Five Years, Virginia Woolf, Walter Bobbie
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THE SATURDAY LIST: Open a New Window on MAME!
The legendary Jerry Herman, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee musical Mame opened for the first time on Broadway in May 1966. Who could lead a revival as the show heads towards its diamond anniversary? Continue reading
Posted in The Saturday List
Tagged Amy Adams, Angela Lansbury, Audra McDonald, Carmen Cusack, James Lapine, Jerome Lawrence, Jerry Herman, Katrina Lenk, Mame, Michael John LaChiusa, Michael Korie, Oscars, Robert Edwin Lee, Scott Rudin, Stephanie J. Block, Sutton Foster, The Wild Party, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Tom Kitt, Toni Collette, Tony Awards
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THE SATURDAY LIST: Annie by Annie Gettin’ Her Gun
ANNIE GET YOUR GUN is 74 years old today! This grand old dame of musical theatre premiered on this day in 1946 – celebrate it in today’s Saturday list from Musical Cyberspace. Continue reading
Posted in The Saturday List
Tagged Adolf Hitler, Andrea McArdle, Annie Get Your Gun, Delores Grey, Dorothy Fields, Ethel Merman, George Hearn, Herbert Fields, Irving Berlin, Jane Horrocks, Lonny Price, Patrick Cassidy, Patti LuPone, Reba McEntire, Susan Lucci, Suzi Quatro, Tom Wopat, Tony Awards, Winston Churchill
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