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Tag Archives: Bea Arthur
The Saturday List: Five Bees-Knees Musicals of the 1920s
How’s tricks, everyone? Today’s “Saturday List” takes a look at my top five musicals from the 1920s. Continue reading
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Tagged Bea Arthur, Bertolt Brecht, Bitter Sweet, Clifford Grey, Dearest Enemy, Dorothy Donnelly, Edmund Purdom, Edna Ferber, Fifty Million Frenchmen, Funny Face, George Gershwin, Gertrude Lawrence, Greatrex Newman, Guy Bolton, Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Jo Sullivan, Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya, Mario Lanza, Miles Kreuger, Mr Cinders, National Theatre, Nicholas Brodzsky, No No Nanette, NT Live, Oh Kay!, Oklahoma!, Oscar Hammerstein II, P. G. Wodehouse, Paul Francis Webster, Richard Myers, Rufus Norris, Show Boat, SIgmund Romberg, Simon Stephens, Strike Up the Band, The Desert Song, The Girl Friend, The Musicals Collection, The New Moon, The Student Prince, The Threepenny Opera, Vivian Ellis
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The Saturday List: “Joseph’s Coat” – or a List of Colourful Songs, Part 2
Last week, I looked at the first dozen colours that appear in “Joseph’s Coat”, the song in Joseph and the Amazing The second part of a three-part list naming show tunes for each of the colours in “Joseph’s Coat” from JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT. Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Lloyd Webber, Arms and the Man, B.G. DeSylva, Bea Arthur, Bianca le Grange, Bye Bye Birdie, Charl-Johan Lingenfelder, Duane Alexander, Earl Gregory, Ferenc Martos, Fergus O'Farrell, George Bernard Shaw, Glen Hansard, Gypsy, Harry Graham, Ivor Novello, Jermone Robbins, Jerome Kern, Jerry Bock, Joe Masteroff, Jonathan Roxmouth, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jule Styne, Leopold Jacobson, Lilac Time, Louis Zurnamer, Markéta Irglová, Miksa Bródy, Nunsense, Once, Oscar Straus, Paul Warwick Griffin, Perchance to Dream, Pieter Toerien Productions, Really Useful Group, Rudolf Bernauer, Sally, She Loves Me, Sheldon Harnick, Stephen Sondheim, Sybil, Sybill, Tallulah Bankhead, The Chocolate Soldier, Tim Rice, Tony Awards, Victor Jacobi, Ziegfeld Follies, Zip Goes a Million
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Musical Theatre Advent Calendar: MAME
I’ve decided to have a musical theatre virtual advent calendar here at Musical Cyberspace. Today’s musical is Mame, Jerry Herman’s 1966 musical that starred Angela Lansbury and Bea Arthur. The show ran for a total of 1 508 performances, moving … Continue reading
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Tagged Amber Riley, Angela Lansbury, Bea Arthur, Chris Colfer, Christmas, Glee, Jenna Ushkowitz, Jerry Herman, Mame
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(Re)considering Musical Theatre Practice: Part 1
Six years ago I delivered a seminar at the University of Cape Town entitled “Musical Theatre Practice: a consideration of genre, form and the festival of renewal”. In that seminar, I set out to explore the major forms of musical … Continue reading →