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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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Forgotten Musicals Friday: ALL AMERICAN
It’s not often that you look back at a forgotten musical, even when it comes to many of the most notorious flops, and can see very clearly why it is has been forgotten, why it flopped – or both. ALL AMERICAN is precisely such a musical. Continue reading
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Tagged All American, Anita Gillette, Bob Merrill, Bye Bye Birdie, Charles Strouse, Cole Porter, Eileen Hurlie, Frank Sinatra, Gower Champion, Joshua Logan, Lee Adams, Leonard Bernstein, Lorenz Hart, Mel Brooks, Michael Stewart, Oklahoma!, Ray Bolger, Richard Rodgers, Robert Lewis Taylor, Ron Husmann, Wonderful Town
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Musical Notes: 19 May 2010
Index Paradise Found at the Menier Chocolate Factory … p.2 Charles Strouse in Hospital … p.3 Reading of Alyss Cancelled … p.3 New Mamma Mia! Website Launched … p.3
Posted in Broadway, Classical Music, General News, Musicals, Off Broadway, Readings, Tours, West End
Tagged A.J. Shively, Adam Gwon, Alice in Wonderland, Alma Cuervo, Alyss, Amanda Kloots-Larsen, Annie, Autumn Hurlbert, Bailey Hanks, Bernice Bobs Her Hair, Blair Ross, Blake Whyte, Brian O'Brien, Broadway, Bye Bye Birdie, Cady Huffman, Carey Anderson, Casey Tuma, Charles Strouse, Daniel Marcus, Demi Fragale, Don Stephenson, Eamon Foley, Ellen Fitzhugh, Emily Loesser, Erin Mackey, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Lee Andrews, Harold Prince, Henry Stram, Herndon Lackey, Irish Repertory Theatre, Jennifer Piech, Jim Poulos, Joe Calarco, Johann Strauss II, John Hickok, John Jellison, John McMartin, Jonathan Tunick, Judy Kaye, Julia Jordan, Kate Baldwin, Kevin Carolan, Lacey Kohl, Lindsay Nicole Chambers, Mamma Mia!, Mandy Patinkin, Marilyn Michaels, Mark Wilk, Martin Moran, Martin van Treuren, Matthew Hamel, Maury Yeston, Menier Chocolate Factory, Michael Mulheren, Morgan Karr, Musicals, Nancy Opel, Olli Haaskivi, Pamela Winslow Kashani, Paradise Found, Patrick Wetzel, Peter Stone, Phoebe Strole, Readings, Richard Nelson, Rick Hilsabeck, Robert Petkoff, Shuler Hensley, Susan Stroman, Tim Jerome, Titanic, West End, Zachary Prince
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BYE BYE BIRDIE at Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
So this is the Bye Bye Birdie clip from Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade. It’s quite fun watching Uncle Jesse go though the moves, although director-choreographer Robert Longbottom hasn’t done anyone any favours with his lame choreography – although the idea of … Continue reading
BYE BYE BIRDIE on MAD MEN
A sequence based on the film version of Bye Bye Birdie has appeared in Episode 3/02 of Mad Men. Check it out here: In the sequence, the title song from the film is reproduced with new lyrics as the basis … Continue reading
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Tagged Bye Bye Birdie, Mad Men, Television, YouTube
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Interpolations for the BYE BYE BIRDIE Revival
The wealth of material created for the film and television adaptations of the 1960 Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie won’t be heard in the new Broadway revival, with one exception: the title tune written for the film, which will be … Continue reading
BYE BYE BIRDIE: Changes in the Revival
Playbill has a new article about the revival and how the director-choreographer Robert Longbottom will honour the original show while giving it a new spin. This is a bit quotation heavy, I know, but it’s interesting stuff: Kenneth Jones wrote: … Continue reading
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Tagged Abby Lane, Allie Trimm, Ann-Margret, Bye Bye Birdie, Charles Strouse, David Chase, Ed Sullican, Gower Champion, Jayne Houdyshell, Lee Adams, Matt Doyle, Oscar Hammersteinn II, Revisals, Robert Longbottom, Roundabout, Stephen Sondheim, Susan Watson
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