Tag Archives: Kiss Me Kate

The Saturday List: The Kelli O’Hara Countdown!

Posted on April 16, 2022 by David Fick

Today is Broadway darling Kelli O’Hara’s birthday. To celebrate we’re counting down five of her greatest stage appearances. Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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RIP Kathryn Grayson

Posted on February 18, 2010 by David Fick

Kathryn Grayson was an American actress, best known for her work in film musicals during the 1950s and on stage, mainly in opera, in the 1960s, although she certainly had a career in film and on television on either side … Continue reading →

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5 Smashing Musicals of the 1940s

Posted on November 1, 2009 by David Fick

This is a list of 5 of my favourite musicals of the 1940s. Anyone who is even vaguely interested in musical theatre should know about these shows and if you don’t… well, there’s no better time than the present to … Continue reading →

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ANYTHING GOES Back to Broadway with Reba McEntire?

Posted on November 20, 2008 by David Fick

Rumour has it that Anything Goes may be headed back to Broadway starring Reba McEntire as Reno Sweeney under the direction of Kathleen Marshall for the Roundabout Theatre Company. Marshall tends to hit or miss, so I guess it’ll be … Continue reading →

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