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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

The Saturday List: “Joseph’s Coat” – or a List of Colourful Songs, Part 1

Posted on April 30, 2016 by David Fick

A list of colourful songs to celebrate the South Africa revival of JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT. Part one of a three-part series. Continue reading →

Posted in The Saturday List | Tagged Alain Boublil, Alexander Borodin, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Bianca le Grange, Bobby Darin, Brian Crawley, Charl-Johan Lingenfelder, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Duane Alexander, Earl Gregory, EY Harburg, Frank Wildhorn, Galt MacDermot, George Forrest, Gerome Ragni, Hair, Harold Arlen, Herbert Kretzmer, Irving Caesar, James Rado, Jeanine Tesori, Jerry Leiber, Jonathan Roxmouth, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Kismet, L Frank Baum, Les Misérables, Louis Zurnamer, Lynn Ahrens, Michael Park, Mike Stoller, Nan Knighton, No No Nanette, Otto Harbach, Paul Warwick Griffin, Pieter Toerien Productions, Prince Igor, Ragtime, Really Useful Group, Robert Wright, Smokey Joe's Café, Stephen Flaherty, Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd, The Beach Boys, The Drifters, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Wizard of Oz, The Yearling, Tim Rice, Vincent Youmans, Violet | 2 Comments

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

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

Top Ten Movie Musicals: 2010 Edition

Posted on August 8, 2010 by David Fick

What are your Top 10 Movie Musicals – right now at this exact point in time. These are mine – off the top of my head and places in alphabetical order. The links will take you to Amazon.com should you … Continue reading →

Posted in Animation, Broadway, Disney, Fun Stuff, Movies, Musicals | Tagged A Star is Born, All That Jazz, An American in Paris, Beauty and the Beast, Cabaret, Chicago, Dancer in the Dark, Dreamgirls, Fiddler on the Roof, Gigi, Little Shop of Horrors, Mary Poppins, Meet Me in Saint Louis, Movies, Musicals, Oliver!, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Singin' in the Rain, South Pacific, The King and I, The Sound of Music, The Wizard of Oz | Leave a comment

Musical Notes: 20 May 2010

Posted on May 20, 2010 by David Fick

The Scottsboro Boys Sets Broadway Dates The Scottsboro Boys, the new John Kander-Fred Ebb-David Thompson musical based on the infamous Scottsboro case in the 1930s, will open on Broadway at the Lyceum theatre on 31st October 2010, following a preview … Continue reading →

Posted in Newsflash, Uncategorized | Tagged Alvin Shapiro, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ben West, Bessie Smith, Bobby Steggert, Darryl Rueben Hall, David Thompson, Dorothy Loudon, Ella Fitzgerald, Ethel Waters, Fats Waller, Frank Widhorn, Fred Ebb, Gary Holmes, Glee, Jannie Jones, JC Johnson, Jekyll and Hyde, John Kander, John Kurzynowski, Jonathan Burke, Lyceum Theatre, Over the Rainbow, Pilin Anice, Prostate UK, Ragtime, Randy Donaldson, The BBC Performing Arts Fund, The Civil War, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Scottsboro Boys, The Wizard of Oz, Trav'lin', Vanessa A. Jones, Yank!, York Theatre Company | Leave a comment

LOVE NEVER DIES Broadway Opening Postponed

Posted on April 6, 2010 by David Fick

The Really Useful Group has released a statement confirming the rumours that the scheduled opening of Love Never Dies in November has been postponed until spring 2011. Here’s an extract from the statement outlining the reasons why: The original opening … Continue reading →

Posted in Broadway, Musicals, Television | Tagged Andrew Lloyd Webber, Broadway, Jack O'Brien, Jerry Mitchell, Love Never Dies, Musicals, Over the Rainbow, The Wizard of Oz | Leave a comment

Review: Disney’s THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG

Posted on January 29, 2010 by David Fick

Disney returns to its roots with this release of The Princess and the Frog, the first of its kind since Home on the Range in 2004. For too long, the studio proper has languished in the domain of CGI features … Continue reading →

Posted in Animation, Commentary, Disney, Movies, Musicals | Tagged Alan Menken, Animation, Cinderella, Disney, DisneyToon, Home on the Range, Movies, Musicals, Pixar, Randy Newman, The Frog Prince, The Frog Princess, The Little Mermaid, The Princess and the Frog, The Wizard of Oz | Leave a comment

Crazy Concepts for Classic Shows: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Posted on April 7, 2009 by David Fick

Every now and again one comes across a “crazy concept” that is used to bring new life into a classic show. Such concepts are not necessarily ‘crazy’; they are merely unconventional. I stumbled across this one on Musicals Dot Net, … Continue reading →

Posted in Crazy Concepts, Musicals, Theatremaking | Tagged Beauty and the Beast, Crazy Concepts, Disney, The Wizard of Oz, Theatremaking | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: The Wizard of Oz

Forgotten Musicals Friday: PEGGY-ANN

The Saturday List: “Joseph’s Coat” – or a List of Colourful Songs, Part 1

Monday Meditation: I am Not Over the Old Masters

Musical Theatre Sunday School: In the Beginning…

Top Ten Movie Musicals: 2010 Edition

Musical Notes: 20 May 2010

LOVE NEVER DIES Broadway Opening Postponed

Review: Disney’s THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG

Crazy Concepts for Classic Shows: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

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