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The Saturday List: 1946 in Musical Theatre

Posted on April 15, 2023 by David Fick

Today’s Saturday List takes a look at the highs and lows of 1958 on musical theatre stages. Continue reading →

Posted in The Saturday List | 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 | 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

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

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

A Chain of Musicals: KISS ME, KATE

Posted on January 16, 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 Bella Spewack, Cole Porter, Frank Loesser, Irving Berlin, Samuel Spewack | Tagged Annie Get Your Gun, Bella Spewack, Cole Porter, Guys and Dolls, Irving Berlin, Kiss Me Kate, Oklahoma!, Samuel Spewack | Leave a comment

A Chain of Musicals: ANNIE GET YOUR GUN

Posted on January 6, 2012 by David Fick

In January, Musical Cyberspace is going to work through a chain of musicals. If you liked ANYTHING GOES yesterday, then you might like ANNIE GET YOUR GUN today! Continue reading →

Posted in 30 Day Challenges, Fun Stuff | Tagged Andrea McArdle, Annie Get Your Gun, Anything Goes, Carousel, Dorothy Fields, Ethel Merman, Herbert Fields, Irving Berlin, Jane Horrocks, Oklahoma!, Oscar Hammerstein II, Peter Stone, Richard Rodgers | Leave a comment

“Discouraging Words”: Lyrics for Musical Theatre

Posted on October 1, 2009 by David Fick

In 1998, Steven Winn wrote an article about lyric writing in contemporary musical theatre for the San Francisco Chronicle: Discouraging Words. The general thrust of his article is that “Broadway lyrics, with a few exceptions, have lost the wit and … Continue reading →

Posted in Broadway, Musicals | Tagged A Chorus Line, Alan Jay Lerner, And the World Goes 'Round, Anything Goes, Cabaret, Camelot, Cats, Closer Than Ever, Cole Porter, Company, Fiddler on the Roof, Frank Loesser, George Gershwin, Hair, Hairspray, Irving Berlin, Jason Robert Brown, Jekyll and Hyde, Johnny Mercer, Legally Blonde, Lorenz Hart, Miss Saigon, My Fair Lady, Nine, Noise/Funk, On a Clear Day, Oscar Hammerstein II, Parade, Paris, Passion, Songs for a New World, Stephen Sondheim, Sunday in the Park With George, The Wedding Singer, Tommy, Wake Up and Dream | 1 Comment

OPENING NIGHT: Paramount goes MGM on Broadway with WHITE CHRISTMAS

Posted on November 23, 2008 by David Fick

The musical Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, based on the Paramount Pictures film of the same name with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and a book by David Ives and Paul Blake, opens on Broadway tonight for a limited, seasonal … Continue reading →

Posted in David Ives, Irving Berlin, Paul Blake | Tagged David Ives, Irving Berlin, Jeffry Denman, Kerry O'Malley, Meredith Patterson, Paul Blake, Stephen Bogardus, White Christmas | 9 Comments

Tag Archives: Irving Berlin

The Saturday List: 1946 in Musical Theatre

The Saturday List: Celebrating Ethel Merman

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

Musical Theatre Sunday School: In the Beginning…

A Chain of Musicals: KISS ME, KATE

A Chain of Musicals: ANNIE GET YOUR GUN

“Discouraging Words”: Lyrics for Musical Theatre

OPENING NIGHT: Paramount goes MGM on Broadway with WHITE CHRISTMAS

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