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Tag Archives: Bertolt Brecht
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
Posted in The Saturday List
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 BEAUTIFUL GAME: 2000 OCR Track by Track
The original cast recording of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ben Elton’s new musical The Beautiful Game was released this past weekend. The production opened recently in London to mixed reviews, with many critics saving the most negative comments for Elton’s … Continue reading
Posted in Cast Recording Reviews, Commentary, In Depth Analysis, Musicals, West End
Tagged Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ben Elton, Bertolt Brecht, Carousel, Cast Recordings, Chess, Commentary, Fiddler on the Roof, In the Name of the Father, Jim Sheridan, Little Shop of Horrors, Man Equals Man, Oklahoma!, Oscar Hammerstein II, Starlight Express, The Beautiful Game, The Boys in the Photograph, The Phantom of the Opera, West Side Story
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O/T: Brecht and Didactic Theatre
I was recently reading a rather mundane series of posts around the issue of adaptation at Musicals.net, which then delved into the realm of Bertolt Brecht and his vision of theatre. Here’s the bit that I found interesting: Hans wrote: … Continue reading →