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Tag Archives: Girl Crazy
The Saturday List: Celebrating Ethel Merman
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 →
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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
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Musical Theatre Sunday School: In the Beginning…
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
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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
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NEWSFLASH: GIRL CRAZY for Encores!
Encores! will be producing GIRL CRAZY, the Gershwins’ fanciful Depression-era musical of 1930. Continue reading →
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Tagged Crazy for You, David Ives, George Gershwin, Girl Crazy, Guy Bolton, Ira Gershwin, Jack McGowan, Jerry Zaks
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Musical Comedy vs. Musical Play
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 →