Tag Archives: Moss Hart

The Technicolor Dreams of LADY IN THE DARK

Posted on April 3, 2026 by David Fick

Some musicals fade into history because they failed to capture the imagination of their contemporary audiences. Others can’t make their mark because they’re ahead of their time. LADY IN THE DARK is neither. It was a huge hit, critically and commercially, and it was absolutely in step with the times. Even so, it is a show that feels strangely distant in today’s musical theatre landscape, even as we remember and celebrate other great successes of the 1940s. Continue reading →

Posted in Forgotten Musicals Friday | Tagged Brooks Atkinson, Danny Kaye, Gertrude Lawrence, Ira Gershwin, Kurt Weill, Lady in the Dark, Maria Friedman, Moss Hart, The New York Times, Victoria Clark | 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

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

Double Take December: SHERRY!

Posted on December 29, 2011 by David Fick

It’s Double Take December at Musical Cyberspace! Every musical pretty much has something one likes and something one doesn’t in it. This month I’ll be listing one of each for a range of musicals, a different one each day. Sherry! … Continue reading →

Posted in James Lipton, Laurence Rosenthal | Tagged George S. Kaufman, James Lipton, Laurence Rosenthal, Moss Hart, Sherry! | Leave a comment

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The Technicolor Dreams of LADY IN THE DARK

Forgotten Musicals Friday: PEGGY-ANN

Musical Theatre Sunday School: In the Beginning…

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