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Category Archives: Forgotten Musicals Friday
Forgotten Musicals Friday: Broadway Meets Britain in ANDRÉ CHARLOT’S REVUE OF 1924
Broadway has often looked across the Atlantic for creative renewal, and just over a century ago, it found something of the kind in ANDRÉ CHARLOT’S REVUE OF 1924, a sophisticated import refreshingly unlike anything American audiences were used to seeing. Continue reading
Forgotten Musicals Friday: Did the Quirky Mix of 16th Century Romance and 80s Pop in HEAD OVER HEELS Really Have the Beat?
For this week’s Forgotten Musicals Friday, we’re turning our spotlight onto a more recent and unusual show: HEAD OVER HEELS. Yes, it’s a bit of a stretch to call something that opened and closed only a few years ago “forgotten,” but with a mere 164 performances, this musical barely had time to etch itself into Broadway’s collective memory to earn itself the title. Continue reading
Forgotten Musicals Friday: FELA! – A Bold and Brilliant Afrobeat Revolution
In this week’s Forgotten Musical Friday. we’re diving into a more recent, truly unique gem that pulsates with rhythms and rebellion – FELA! Continue reading
Posted in Forgotten Musicals Friday, Uncategorized
Tagged Alicia Keys, Beyoncé, Bill T. Jones, Billy Elliot, Carlos Moore, Charlize Theron, David Byrne, Eugene O'Neill Theatre, Fela Kuti, Fela!, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Hamilton, Jay-Z, Jim Lewis, Legally Blonde, Marilyn Nance, Memphis
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Forgotten Musicals Friday: Wartime Unity and Cultural Controversy in THIS IS THE ARMY
This week, we’re diving into a wartime classic that certainly boosted military morale during World War II, while simultaneously breaking new ground in the arts and placing itself, in some ways, on the wrong side of the cultural conversations of the time. So let’s dust off our military fatigues and march into the world of THIS IS THE ARMY! Continue reading
Posted in Forgotten Musicals Friday
Tagged Academy Awards, Alan Anderson, Ezra Stone, Irving Berlin, Jack Mendelsohn, James Cross, James McColl, Richard Burdick, Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed, Shuffle Aong, The Songwriter Goes to War, This is the Army, Tom McDonnell, Uncle Sam, United States Army, Warner Brothers, Yip Yip Yaphank
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Forgotten Musicals Friday: Does HALLELUJAH, BABY! Open the Gates of Heaven or Hell?
This Friday’s Forgotten Musical takes us back to the 1960s and HALLELUJAH, BABY! Continue reading
Posted in Forgotten Musicals Friday
Tagged Adolph Green, Alan Weeks, Alan Weeks and Winston DeWitt Hemsley, Amanda Green, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden, Bring in 'da Noise Bring in 'da Funk, Caroline or Change, Hallelujah Baby!, Jule Styne, Lena Horne, Leslie Uggams, Naomi Siegel, New York Times, Passing Strange, The George Street Playhouse, Tony Awards
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Forgotten Musicals Friday: ACE OF CLUBS – Royal Flush or a Bottom End?
This Friday’s Forgotten Musical takes us back to 1950’s ACE OF CLUBS. Continue reading
Forgotten Musicals Friday: GEORGE WHITE’S SCANDALS OF 1924
This Friday’s Forgotten Musical takes us back in time to GEORGE WHITE’S SCANDALS OF 1924. Continue reading
Posted in Forgotten Musicals Friday
Tagged Ann Miller, Ballard MacDonald, Bert Lahr, Black Bottom, Broadway Rhythm, Buddy DeSylva, Ella Fitzgerald, Erté and Juliette, Ethel Merman, Finian's Rainbow, George Gershwin, George White's Scandals, George White's Scandals of 1924, Helen Hudson, Kiri Te Kanawa, Lester Allen, Lew Pollack, Lullaby of Broadway, Lullaby of Broadway and Pete Kelly's Blues, Ray Bolger, Rhapsody in Blue, Richard Bold, Somebody Loves Me, The Williams Sisters, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Tom Patricola, Tony Awards, Venus de Milo, Will Mahoney, William K. Wells, Ziegfeld Follies
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Forgotten Musicals Friday: Don’t Leave THE BODY BEAUTIFUL Well Enough Alone!
This Friday’s Forgotten Musical takes us back in time to THE BODY BEAUTIFUL, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick’s debut Broadway musical as a songwriting team. Continue reading
Posted in Forgotten Musicals Friday
Tagged Amber Ruffin, Casey Nicholaw, Damn Yankees, Fiddler on the Roof, Fiorello!, George Abbott, Harold Prince, Jerry Bock, Joseph Stein, Marc Shaiman, Matthew López, Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers, Scott Wittman, Sheldon Harnick, Some Like it Hot, Stephen Sondheim, The Body Beautiful, Will Glickman
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