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Forgotten Musicals Friday: The Merely Marvelous REDHEAD

Posted on January 13, 2023 by David Fick

Join as us we delve into this week’s s forgotten musical: REDHEAD. Continue reading →

Posted in Forgotten Musicals Friday | Tagged Albert Hague, Bob Fosse, Can-Can, Charlie Chaplin, Damn Yankees, David Shaw, Dorothy Fields, Flower Drum Song, Goldilocks, Gwen Verdon, Herbert Fields, Jack the Ripper, Keystone Cops, La Plume de Ma Tante, Madame Tussauds, New Girl in Town, Redhead, Richard Kiley, Salvatore Dell'Isola, Sidney Sheldon, Tony Awards, Whoop-Up | 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

Forgotten Musicals Friday: PEGGY-ANN

Posted on February 18, 2022 by David Fick

Another Friday, another forgotten Rodgers and Hart gem from the 1920s. This week, it’s all about Peggy-Ann, one of the six shows that would credit Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart as composer and lyricist respectively in 1926. Continue reading →

Posted in Forgotten Musicals Friday | Tagged 42nd Street Moon, Alfred Baldwin Sloan, Alice in Wonderland, Barbara Streisand, Betsy, Betty Buckley, Charlie Chaplin, Edgar Smith, Gilbert and Sullivan, Herbert Fields, Ira Gershwin, Jerry Herman, John Goldne, Kurt Weill, Lady in the Dark, Lew Fields, Lido Lady, Lorenz Hart, Mabel Normand, Mack and Mabel, Mack Sennett, Marie Dressler, Moss Hart, Oklahoma!, Oscar Hammerstein II, Peggy-Ann, Richard Rodgers, The Fifth Avenue Follies, The Garrick Gaities, The Girl Friend, The Wizard of Oz, Tillie's Nightmare, Words and Music | Leave a comment

Forgotten Musicals Friday: LIDO LADY

Posted on February 11, 2022 by David Fick

it’s time to take a look at another of the forgotten musicals created by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart during the 1920s.This week it’s time to look over LIDO LADY. Continue reading →

Posted in Forgotten Musicals Friday | Tagged Big Boy, Buddy de Silva, Cicely Courtneidge, Con Conrad, Crazy for You, Dearest Enemy, Herbert Fields, Jack Hulbert, Lew Brown, Lido Lady, Lorenz Hart, My One and Only, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Ray Henderson, Richard Rodgers | Leave a comment

Forgotten Musicals Friday: THE GIRL FRIEND

Posted on February 4, 2022 by David Fick

If THE GARRICK GAIETIES, which was featured in last week’s Forgotten Musicals Friday, was an important stepping stone for Richard Rodgers and Lorenza Hart, THE GIRL FRIEND cemented them in the public consciousness of 1920s America. Continue reading →

Posted in Forgotten Musicals Friday | Tagged Dearest Enemy, Ella Fitzgerald, Eva Puck, Herbert Fields, Jack Haskell, John Harwood, Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers, Sammy White, The Garrick Gaieties, The Girl Friend, The Revellers | Leave a comment

Forgotten Musicals Friday: DEAREST ENEMY

Posted on January 28, 2022 by David Fick

With a book by Herbert Fields, direction by John Murray Anderson, direction of the libretto by Charles Sinclair and Harry Ford and dance and ensemble direction by Carl Hemmer, DEAREST ENEMY ran for 286 performances. Continue reading →

Posted in Forgotten Musicals Friday | Tagged Carl Hemmer, Charles Sinclair, Crazy for You, Dearest Enemy, Forgotten Musicals Friday, George Gershwin, Harry Ford, Herbert Fields, Ira Gershwin, John Murray Anderson, Lorenz Hart, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Richard Rodgers, The Garrick Gaieties | 1 Comment

Forgotten Musicals Friday: THE GARRICK GAIETIES

Posted on January 21, 2022 by David Fick

THE GARRICK GAIETIES was an important stepping stone in the career of Rodgers and Hart owing to its introduction (by Sterling Holloway and June Cochrane) of what was arguably their first runaway hit, “Manhattan”. Continue reading →

Posted in Forgotten Musicals Friday | Tagged A Lonely Romeo, Arthur Sullivan, Benjamin Kaye, Calvin Coolidge, Dudley Digges, Edith Meiser, Herbert Fields, Howard Green, June Cochrane, Lorenz Hart, Mana Zucca, Morrie Ryskind, Philip Loeb, Poor Little Ritz Girl, Richard Rodgers, Sam Jaffe, Scopes trial, Sterling Holloway, The Garrick Gaieties, Theatre Guild | Leave a comment

THE SATURDAY LIST: Annie by Annie Gettin’ Her Gun

Posted on May 16, 2020 by David Fick

ANNIE GET YOUR GUN is 74 years old today! This grand old dame of musical theatre premiered on this day in 1946 – celebrate it in today’s Saturday list from Musical Cyberspace. Continue reading →

Posted in The Saturday List | Tagged Adolf Hitler, Andrea McArdle, Annie Get Your Gun, Delores Grey, Dorothy Fields, Ethel Merman, George Hearn, Herbert Fields, Irving Berlin, Jane Horrocks, Lonny Price, Patrick Cassidy, Patti LuPone, Reba McEntire, Susan Lucci, Suzi Quatro, Tom Wopat, Tony Awards, Winston Churchill | 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

THE SATURDAY LIST: My 5 Current Musical Theatre Obsessions

Posted on August 30, 2014 by David Fick

For today’s edition of the “Saturday List” on Musical Cyberspace, I thought I would share my 5 current musical theatre obsessions, the things that I am finding most fascinating in the world of musical theatre – right here, right now. Continue reading →

Posted in The Saturday List | Tagged Andrew Lippa, Annie Get Your Gun, Brokeback Mountain, Cabaret, Colonel Buffalo Bill, Contact, Dawson's Creek, Dorothy Fields, Ethel Merman, Fred Ebb, Herbert Fields, I Remember Mama, Irving Berlin, John Kander, Joseph Moncure March, Marc Shaiman, Martin Charnin, Megan Hilty, Michael John LaChiusa, Michelle Williams, Native American, Native Americans, Peter Stone, Raymond Jessel, Richard Rodgers, Scott Wittman, Smash, The Wild Party, Thomas Meehan, YouTube | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Herbert Fields

Forgotten Musicals Friday: The Merely Marvelous REDHEAD

The Saturday List: Celebrating Ethel Merman

Forgotten Musicals Friday: PEGGY-ANN

Forgotten Musicals Friday: LIDO LADY

Forgotten Musicals Friday: THE GIRL FRIEND

Forgotten Musicals Friday: DEAREST ENEMY

Forgotten Musicals Friday: THE GARRICK GAIETIES

THE SATURDAY LIST: Annie by Annie Gettin’ Her Gun

Monday Meditation: I am Not Over the Old Masters

THE SATURDAY LIST: My 5 Current Musical Theatre Obsessions

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