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Category Archives: Forgotten Musicals Friday
Forgotten Musicals Friday: LOST IN THE STARS
Disney Theatricals may have hit the big time when BEAUTY AND THE BEAST opened on Broadway in 1994, but the animated feature that started it all, SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS, was adapted for the stage a quarter century before that auspicious calendar event. Continue reading
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Tagged Academy Awards, Anne Francine, Beauty and the Beast, Broadway, Bruce Sherman, Charles Hall, Disney, Disney Theatricals, Disneyland, Frank Churchill, Frank Wagner, Jay Blackton, Joe Cook, Larry Morey, Mary Jo Salerno, Radio City Music Hall, Richard Bowne, Snow White An Enchanting Musical, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Muny, Thomas Ruisinger, West End, Yolande Bavan
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Forgotten Musicals Friday: SNOW WHITE
Disney Theatricals may have hit the big time when BEAUTY AND THE BEAST opened on Broadway in 1994, but the animated feature that started it all, SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS, was adapted for the stage a quarter century before that auspicious calendar event. Continue reading
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Tagged Academy Awards, Anne Francine, Beauty and the Beast, Broadway, Bruce Sherman, Charles Hall, Disney, Disney Theatricals, Disneyland, Frank Churchill, Frank Wagner, Jay Blackton, Joe Cook, Larry Morey, Mary Jo Salerno, Radio City Music Hall, Richard Bowne, Snow White An Enchanting Musical, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Muny, Thomas Ruisinger, West End, Yolande Bavan
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Forgotten Musicals Friday: LOOK MA, I’M DANCIN’!
I could show you my favourite obsession…. Well, it isn’t THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW. That’s not a forgotten musical. On the other hand, LOOK MA, I’M DANCIN’! is, one that is so charming that it would be churlish not to shine the spotlight on it here. Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Laurents, Fiddler on the Roof, George Abbott, Good News, Gypsy, Hugh Martin, Jerome Lawrence, Jerome Robbins, Look Ma I'm Dancin'!, Mame, Meet Me in St Louis, Oklahoma!, On the Town, Robert Edwin Lee, THe Rocky Horror Show, West Side Story
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Forgotten Musicals Friday: LIDO LADY
it’s time to take a look at another of the forgotten musicals created by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart during the 1920s.This week it’s time to look over LIDO LADY. Continue reading
Forgotten Musicals Friday: THE GIRL FRIEND
If THE GARRICK GAIETIES, which was featured in last week’s Forgotten Musicals Friday, was an important stepping stone for Richard Rodgers and Lorenza Hart, THE GIRL FRIEND cemented them in the public consciousness of 1920s America. Continue reading
Forgotten Musicals Friday: DEAREST ENEMY
With a book by Herbert Fields, direction by John Murray Anderson, direction of the libretto by Charles Sinclair and Harry Ford and dance and ensemble direction by Carl Hemmer, DEAREST ENEMY ran for 286 performances. Continue reading
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Tagged Carl Hemmer, Charles Sinclair, Crazy for You, Dearest Enemy, Forgotten Musicals Friday, George Gershwin, Harry Ford, Herbert Fields, Ira Gershwin, John Murray Anderson, Lorenz Hart, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Richard Rodgers, The Garrick Gaieties
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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
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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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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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