Tag Archives: Anything Goes

The Saturday List: Celebrating Ethel Merman

Posted on July 9, 2022 by David Fick

Today in 1930, Variety gave Ethel Merman a breakthrough review ahead of what would become a breathtaking musical theatre career. Today, we celebrate some of her biggest shows. Continue reading →

Posted in The Saturday List | Tagged Angela Lansbury, Anything Goes, Arthur Laurents, Bert Lahr, Buddy DeSylva, Call Me Madam, Cole Porter, Dorothy Fields, Drama Desk Awards, DuBarry Was a Lady, Elaine Paige, Ethel Merman, George Gershwin, George White's Scandals, Girl Crazy, Grace Kelly, Guy Bolton, Gypsy, Gypsy Rose Lee, Happy Hunting, Harold Karr, Herbert Fields, Howard Lindsay, Irving Berlin, Jerry Herman, Jule Styne, Kay Thompson, Mary Martin, Matt Dubey, Panama Hattie, Patti LuPone, PG Wodehouse, Red, Red Hot and Blue!, Roger Edens, Rosalind Russell, Rose Hovick, Russel Crouse, Stars in Your Eyes, Stephen Sondheim, Sutton Foster, Take a Chance, That's Singing, The Ethel Merman Disco Album, The Love Boat, Tony Awards, Tyne Daly, Variety | Leave a comment

March Monikers: “Blow, Gabriel, Blow”

Posted on March 15, 2022 by David Fick

March 2022 at Musical Cyberspace is all about songs with people’s names in the title. Do you know who’s playin’ today? Continue reading →

Posted in 30 Day Challenges, March Monikers | Tagged Anything Goes, Cole Porter, Elaine Paige, Ethel Merman, Patti LuPone, Sutton Foster | Leave a comment

The Saturday List: Best ‘Memories’ of Elaine Paige

Posted on March 5, 2022 by Tjaart van der Walt

Today we celebrate the birthday of one of the most well known leading ladies of the modern musical theatre era, Elaine Paige. Continue reading →

Posted in The Saturday List | Tagged ABBA, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Anything Goes, Barbara Dickson, Benny Andersson, Betty Buckley, Björn Ulvaeus, Cats, Chess, Elaine Paige, Evita, Follies, Howard McGillin, Olivier Awards, Patti LuPone, Sunset Boulevard, Sweeney Todd, The King and I, Tim Rice, West End | Leave a comment

Musical Theatre Sunday School: In the Beginning…

Posted on August 24, 2014 by David Fick

In the beginning, there was music and there was drama, and musical theatre was without form. Broadway was in darkness. And Henry Jarrett and Harry Palmer moved upon the face of the district, by arrangement with William Wheatley. “Let there be light,” they said: and there was THE BLACK CROOK. Continue reading →

Posted in Musical Theatre Sunday School | Tagged Annie Get Your Gun, Anything Goes, Babes in Arms, Babes in Toyland, Bloomer Girl, Brigadoon, Carousel, Cole Porter, Dearest Enemy, Die Lustige Witwe, DuBarry Was a Lady, Ethel Merman, Finian's Rainbow, Floradora, Florenz Zeigfeld, Follies, Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway, Franz Lehar, George Gershwin, George M. Cohan, George Washington Jr, George White, Girl Crazy, Harry Palmer, Harry Tierney, Henry Jarrett, Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, It Happened in Nordland, Jerome Kern, John Murray Anderson, Joseph McCarthy, Kiss Me Kate, Kurt Weill, Lady in the Dark, Leave it to Jane, Leave it To Me, Little Johnny Jones, Little Nemo, Lorenz Hart, Miss Dolly Dollars, Moss Hart, Musical Comedy, Naughty Marietta, No No Nanette, Noël Coward, Of Thee I Sing, Oh Boy!, Oh Kay!, Oh! Lady! Lady!, Oklahoma!, On the Town, On Your Toes, Oscar Hammerstein II, Pal Joey, Princess Theatre, Richard Rodgers, Scandals, Set to Music, South Pacific, Strike Up the Band, Sunny, The Black Crook, The Greenwich Village Follies, The Merry Widow, The Red Mill, The Song of Norway, The Third Little Show, The Vagabond King, The Wizard of Oz, Tonight at 8:30, Victor Herbert, Vincent Youman, William Wheatley | Leave a comment

A Chain of Musicals: ANNIE GET YOUR GUN

Posted on January 6, 2012 by David Fick

In January, Musical Cyberspace is going to work through a chain of musicals. If you liked ANYTHING GOES yesterday, then you might like ANNIE GET YOUR GUN today! Continue reading →

Posted in 30 Day Challenges, Fun Stuff | Tagged Andrea McArdle, Annie Get Your Gun, Anything Goes, Carousel, Dorothy Fields, Ethel Merman, Herbert Fields, Irving Berlin, Jane Horrocks, Oklahoma!, Oscar Hammerstein II, Peter Stone, Richard Rodgers | Leave a comment

A Chain of Musicals: ANYTHING GOES

Posted on January 5, 2012 by David Fick

In January, Musical Cyberspace is going to work through a chain of musicals. This is how it works: each day I will discuss, in brief, a musical linked to the previous day’s musical by some kind of common ground. It … Continue reading →

Posted in Cole Porter, Guy Bolton, Howard Lindsay, John Weidman, PG Wodehouse, Russel Crouse, Timothy Crouse | Tagged Anything Goes, Cole Porter, Guy Bolton, Howard Lindsay, John Weidman, Mame, Patti LuPone, PG Wodehouse, Russel Crouse, Timothy Crouse | Leave a comment

Musical Comedy vs. Musical Play

Posted on July 9, 2010 by David Fick

Following my 2010 redux blog on “Genres of Musical Theatre“, I received a message from Hans Anders Elgvang, a regular visitor of this site, asking: ‘What are, in your opinion, the differences between the form categories musical comedy and musical … Continue reading →

Posted in Commentary, Musicals, Theatremaking, Theory and Practice | Tagged Annie Get Your Gun, Anything Goes, Babes in Arms, Carousel, Crazy for You, Girl Crazy, Musical Comedy, Musical Plays, My Fair Lady, Oklahoma!, Ragtime, Silk Stockings, South Pacific, The King and I, Theatremaking, Theory and Practice, West Side Story | 3 Comments

“Discouraging Words”: Lyrics for Musical Theatre

Posted on October 1, 2009 by David Fick

In 1998, Steven Winn wrote an article about lyric writing in contemporary musical theatre for the San Francisco Chronicle: Discouraging Words. The general thrust of his article is that “Broadway lyrics, with a few exceptions, have lost the wit and … Continue reading →

Posted in Broadway, Musicals | Tagged A Chorus Line, Alan Jay Lerner, And the World Goes 'Round, Anything Goes, Cabaret, Camelot, Cats, Closer Than Ever, Cole Porter, Company, Fiddler on the Roof, Frank Loesser, George Gershwin, Hair, Hairspray, Irving Berlin, Jason Robert Brown, Jekyll and Hyde, Johnny Mercer, Legally Blonde, Lorenz Hart, Miss Saigon, My Fair Lady, Nine, Noise/Funk, On a Clear Day, Oscar Hammerstein II, Parade, Paris, Passion, Songs for a New World, Stephen Sondheim, Sunday in the Park With George, The Wedding Singer, Tommy, Wake Up and Dream | 1 Comment

ANYTHING GOES Back to Broadway with Reba McEntire?

Posted on November 20, 2008 by David Fick

Rumour has it that Anything Goes may be headed back to Broadway starring Reba McEntire as Reno Sweeney under the direction of Kathleen Marshall for the Roundabout Theatre Company. Marshall tends to hit or miss, so I guess it’ll be … Continue reading →

Posted in Broadway, Musicals | Tagged Anything Goes, Broadway, Elaine Paige, Kathleen Marshall, Kiss Me Kate, Musicals, Patti LuPone, Reba McEntire, Revivals, Roundabout | 12 Comments

Tag Archives: Anything Goes

The Saturday List: Celebrating Ethel Merman

March Monikers: “Blow, Gabriel, Blow”

The Saturday List: Best ‘Memories’ of Elaine Paige

Musical Theatre Sunday School: In the Beginning…

A Chain of Musicals: ANNIE GET YOUR GUN

A Chain of Musicals: ANYTHING GOES

Musical Comedy vs. Musical Play

“Discouraging Words”: Lyrics for Musical Theatre

ANYTHING GOES Back to Broadway with Reba McEntire?

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