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Tag Archives: Academy Awards
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
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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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The Saturday List: A Little Gwen Verdon, A Lotta Talent
Grab your jazz shoes and get ready to dance into the unparalleled brilliance of Broadway’s own dynamo, Gwen Verdon! Continue reading
Posted in Broadway, The Saturday List
Tagged Abe Burrows, Academy Awards, Ann Reinking, Anna Christie, Bob Fosse, Bob Merrill, Brecht, Broadway, Can-Can, Chicago, Chita Rivera, Cole Porter, Cy Coleman, Damn Yankees, David Shaw, Dorothy Fields, Douglass Wallop, Eugene O'Niell, Fred Ebb, George Abbott, Guys and Dolls, Gwen Verdon, Hans Conried, Herbert Fields, Jerry Ross, John Kander, Michael Kidd, Music Hall, Musical, Neil Simon, New Girl in Town, Oscar Hammerstin II, Redhead, Richard Adler, Richard Kiley, Richard Rodgers, theatre, Thelma RItter, West End
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The Saturday List: 1958 in Musical Theatre
Today’s Saturday List takes a look at the highs and lows of 1958 on musical theatre stages. Continue reading
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Tagged 1958, Abbe Lane, Academy Awards, Bobby Fischer, Captain!, Damn Yankees, David Henry Hwang, Domenico Modugno, Don Ameche, Dwight Eisenhower, Elaine Stritch, Fiddler on the Roof, Fiorello!, Flower Drum Song, Gerald Holtom, Gigi, Goldilocks, Gypsy, Harold Prince, Jean Kerr, Jerry Bock, Joan Ford, Joseph Stein, La Plume de Ma Tante, Miyoshi Umeki, My Fair Lady, NASA, Oh Captain!, Oscar Hammerstein II, Redhead, Richard Rodgers, She Loves Me, Sheldon Harnick, South Pacific, Stephen Sondheim, The Body Beautiful, The Captain's Paradise, The Everley Brothers, The Pajama Game, West Side Story, Will Glickman
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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
Posted in Forgotten Musicals Friday
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
Posted in Forgotten Musicals Friday
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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Oscar Nominations…
This past year, the musical was represented on screen by the adaptation of Nine and Disney’s first traditionally animated film musical in a long time, The Princess and the Frog. Both have picked up a couple of nominations for the … Continue reading →