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Tag Archives: Richard Rodgers
The Saturday List: Ten Great Musical Theatre Dates
Nobody I know enjoys dating. But experience tells us that there are good dates to be had. And so do musicals. So let’s take a look at ten great musical theatre dates – just in time for Valentine’s Day! Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Menken, Beauty and the Beast, Benj Pasek, Carousel, Dogfight, Frank Loesser, Guys and Dolls, Gypsy, Harvey Schmidt, Howard Ashman, Jonathan Larson, Jule Stye, Justin Paul, Leonard Bernstein, Oscar Hammerstein II, RENT, Richard Rodgers, South Pacific, Stephen Sondheim, The Fantasticks, The King and I, Tim Jones, West Side Story
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Forgotten Musicals Friday: LIDO LADY
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
Forgotten Musicals Friday: THE GIRL FRIEND
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
Forgotten Musicals Friday: DEAREST ENEMY
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
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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
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Forgotten Musicals Friday: THE GARRICK GAIETIES
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
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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
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The Saturday List: 10 Times the Musical Challenged Its Dismissal as a Relevant Art Form
Although many people dismiss the musical as a relevant form of artistic expression, the musical can easily hold its own alongside any form of theatre you might care to mention. So I thought that today, I might put together a Saturday list of just ten times musicals have been completely in step with the world around them. Continue reading
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Tagged Adolph Green, Andrew Lippa, Betty Comden, Blood Brothers, Camp David, David Kramer, District Six, Dreamgirls, Edward Said, Elliot Norton, Follies, Fun Home, George C. Wolfe, Gone With the Wind, Harvey Milk, Henry Krieger, Idi Amin, James Goldman, James Michener, Jeanine Tesori, Jerome Kern, John Weidman, Kat and the Kings, Leonard Bernstein, Lisa Kron, Michael John LaChiusa, Musical Theatre, Oklahoma!, On the Town, Oscar Hammerstein, Oscar Hammerstein II, Pacific Overtures, Richard Rodgers, Show Boat, Sono Osato, South Pacific, Stephen Sondheim, Taliep Petersen, The Wild Party, Tom Eyen, Trevor Nunn, Watergate, Willy Russell
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Forgotten Musicals Friday: POOR LITTLE RITZ GIRL
POOR LITTLE RITZ GIRL was the first Broadway show that showcased Rodgers and Hart’s talents to any great extent. Continue reading
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Tagged A Lonely Romeo, Alex Gerber, David Bennett, Fly With Me, Forgotten Musicals Friday, George Campbell, Henry Stillman, Joseph Meyer, Lew Fields, Lorenz Hart, Ned Wayburn, Patti LuPone, Poor Little Ritz Girl, Richard Rodgers, SIgmund Romberg, Sunset Boulevard, Vincent Bryan, Where the Good Songs Go, William O'Neill
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Forgotten Musicals Friday: FLY WITH ME
For the first Forgotten Musicals Friday of 2022, we’re jumping back in time more than 100 years to take a look at an early Rodgers and Hart show, one that had some of the first Rodgers and Hammerstein songs thrown in for fun: FLY WITH ME. Continue reading
THE SATURDAY LIST: Five Favourite “Small Cast” Shows
For today’s Saturday List, I thought it might be fun to take a look at some “small cast” shows. By their very nature, these shows are more intimate than the big musicals that play the biggest houses on Broadway, in the West End and internationally. Some are introspective, others are side-splittingly funny – but many are just as moving as their classic, big, blockbuster counterparts. Continue reading
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Tagged A Christmas Story, A Grand NIght for Singing, Adam Gwon, Benj Pasek, Craig Lucas, Dear Evan Hansen, Dogfight, Edges, Gregg Edelman, Jason Robert Brown, Justin Paul, Marry Me a Little, Martin Vidnovic, Mrs Dalloway, Norman René, Ordinary Days, Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim, The Greatest Showman, The Last Five Years, Virginia Woolf, Walter Bobbie
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Forgotten Musicals Friday: I REMEMBER MAMA
It’s been almost thirty years since the opening of the last musical that Richard Rodgers composed, I REMEMBER MAMA. What are your memories or thoughts – good or bad – of this show? Continue reading
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