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Forgotten Musicals Friday: Ready to Cast Your Vote for MR. PRESIDENT?
With Kamala Harris set to face off against Donald Trump this November, is MR. PRESIDENT the kind of satirical show that would be a pertinent reflection of the times? For this week’s Forgotten Musicals Friday, let’s put together a campaign for this politically-tinged musical to see whether it gets our vote. Continue reading
Posted in The Saturday List
Tagged A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Al Gore, Anita Gillette, Annie Get Your Gun, Call Me Madam, Concord Theatricals, Donald Trump, George W. Bush, Gerard Alessandrini, Happy Hunting, Hooray For What!, Howard Lindsay, Irving Berlin, Joshua Logan, Kamala Harris, Mr President, Nanette Fabray, Of Thee I Sing, Oliver!, Peter Gennaro, Robert Ryan, Russel Crouse, State of the Union, Stop the World - I Want to Get Off, The Sound of Music, This is the Army, Tony Award, White Christmas, Wisa D'Orso
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Forgotten Musicals Friday: Wartime Unity and Cultural Controversy in THIS IS THE ARMY
This week, we’re diving into a wartime classic that certainly boosted military morale during World War II, while simultaneously breaking new ground in the arts and placing itself, in some ways, on the wrong side of the cultural conversations of the time. So let’s dust off our military fatigues and march into the world of THIS IS THE ARMY! Continue reading
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Tagged Academy Awards, Alan Anderson, Ezra Stone, Irving Berlin, Jack Mendelsohn, James Cross, James McColl, Richard Burdick, Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed, Shuffle Aong, The Songwriter Goes to War, This is the Army, Tom McDonnell, Uncle Sam, United States Army, Warner Brothers, Yip Yip Yaphank
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The Saturday List: 1946 in Musical Theatre
Today’s Saturday List takes a look at the highs and lows of 1958 on musical theatre stages. Continue reading
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Tagged 1946, Al Jolson, Annie Get Your Gun, Beggar's Holiday, Bible, Blue Skies, Call Me Mister, Carousel, Cole Porter, Dale Wasserman, Dorothy Fields, Duke Ellington, Eddy Howard and His Orchestra, Ethel Merman, Eva Perón, Evita, Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer, Josh Stenberg, LGBTQIA+, Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five, Lute Song, Mary Martin, MENSA, Night and Day, Oklahoma!, Oscar Hammerstein II, Peter Stone, Pipa ji, Porgy and Bess, Richard Halliday, Richard Rodgers, St Louis Woman, Studies in Musical Theatre, The Jolson Story, To Each His Own, Yeichi Nimura, Yul Brynner
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THE SATURDAY LIST: Annie by Annie Gettin’ Her Gun
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
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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
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A Chain of Musicals: KISS ME, KATE
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
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