Tag Archives: Cole Porter

Forgotten Musicals Friday: THE TOREADOR

Posted on January 6, 2023 by David Fick

Join as us we delve into the first of January 2023’s forgotten musicals: THE TOREADOR. Continue reading →

Posted in Forgotten Musicals Friday | Tagged Adrian Ross, Arthur Sullivan, Cole Porter, David Braham, Edmund "Teddy" Payne, Francis Wilson, Gaiety Theatre, George Gershwin, Gilbert and Sullivan, Harrigan and Hart, Harry Nichols, Ira Gershwin, Ivan Caryll, James T Tanner, Jennie Hawley, Lionel Monckton, Ned Harrigan, Percy Greenbank, Queenie Leighton, The Toreador, Tony Hart, W.S. Gilbert | Leave a comment

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

March Monikers: “Bianca”

Posted on March 7, 2022 by David Fick

March 2022 at Musical Cyberspace is all about songs with people’s names in the title. Today: Cole Porter’s “Bianca.” Continue reading →

Posted in 30 Day Challenges, March Monikers | Tagged Cole Porter, Corbin Bleu, Harold Lang, Kiss Me Kate, Michael Berresse | Leave a comment

The Saturday List: Multiple Best Actress in a Musical Tony Winners

Posted on January 8, 2022 by David Fick

Today, there is something of a diva-off at Musical Cyberspace. For this week’s Saturday list, we’re going to rank the multiple-Tony Award winners in the Best Actress in a Musical category, mentioning and sharing video clips of some favourite performances. Continue reading →

Posted in The Saturday List | Tagged 42nd Street, Angela Lansbury, Annie, Bella Spewack, Bernadette Peters, Blythe Danner, Camelot, Charles Strouse, Chita Rivera, Christine Ebersole, Cole Porter, Donna Murphy, Faith Prince, Fred Ebb, Grease, Grey Gardens, Gwen Verdon, Harrigan and Hart, I Do! I Do!, John Kander, Kelli O'Hara, LaChanze, Lauren Bacall, Leave it To Me, Lee Adams, Les Misérables, Little Women, Liza Minnelli, Love Thy Neighbor, Marla Schaffel, Mary Martin, Oklahoma!, On the Twentieth Century, Patti LuPone, Peter Pan, Randy Graff, Sam Spewack, Shrek, South Pacific, Sutton Fost, The Drowsy Chaperone, The Producers, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Sound of Music, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Tony Awards, Violet, Young Frankenstein | Leave a comment

Monday Meditation: I am Not Over the Old Masters

Posted on September 21, 2015 by David Fick

Sometimes its easy to forget just how far musicals have come; it’s also easy to dismiss how much the ground-breakers were doing at the time. Continue reading →

Posted in Monday Meditation | Tagged Babes in Toyland, Cole Porter, Dearest Enemy, Disney, Disney Theatricals, Fifty Million Frenchmen, Glen MacDonough, Hamilton, Herbert Fields, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Lorenz Hart, Oh Kay!, Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers, Sara Bareilles, Sunny, The Lion King, The Red Mill, The Wizard of Oz, Victor Herbert, Waitress, Watch Your Step | Leave a comment

Forgotten Musicals Friday: ALL AMERICAN

Posted on October 10, 2014 by David Fick

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 →

Posted in Forgotten Musicals Friday | 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 | 2 Comments

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

CD Reviews: A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER

Posted on April 4, 2014 by David Fick

A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER is a fantastic addition to the musical theatre collection of any fan of the form. Continue reading →

Posted in CD Reviews | Tagged A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, Bryce Pinkham, Cole Porter, Ghostlight Records, Gilbert and Sullivan, Hartford Stage, Israel Rank, Jefferson Mays, Lauren Worsham, Lisa O'Hare, Lorenz Hart, Noël Coward, Richard Rodgers, Robert L. Freeman, Roy Horniman, Steven Lutvak | Leave a comment

A Chain of Musicals: A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM

Posted on January 17, 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 Burt Shevelove, Cole Porter, Larry Gelbart, Stephen Sondheim | Tagged A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Bella Spewack, Burt Shevelvoe, Cole Porter, Kiss Me Kate, Larry Gelbart, Plautus, Sam Spewack, Stephen Sondheim, William Shakespeare, Your Own Thing | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Cole Porter

Forgotten Musicals Friday: THE TOREADOR

The Saturday List: Celebrating Ethel Merman

March Monikers: “Blow, Gabriel, Blow”

March Monikers: “Bianca”

The Saturday List: Multiple Best Actress in a Musical Tony Winners

Monday Meditation: I am Not Over the Old Masters

Forgotten Musicals Friday: ALL AMERICAN

Musical Theatre Sunday School: In the Beginning…

CD Reviews: A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER

A Chain of Musicals: A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM

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