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Tag Archives: West Side Story
The Saturday List: 1958 in Musical Theatre
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 1958, Abbe Lane, Academy Awards, Bobby Fischer, Captain!, Damn Yankees, David Henry Hwang, Domenico Modugno, Don Ameche, Dwight Eisenhower, Elaine Stritch, Fiddler on the Roof, Fiorello!, Flower Drum Song, Gerald Holtom, Gigi, Goldilocks, Gypsy, Harold Prince, Jean Kerr, Jerry Bock, Joan Ford, Joseph Stein, La Plume de Ma Tante, Miyoshi Umeki, My Fair Lady, NASA, Oh Captain!, Oscar Hammerstein II, Redhead, Richard Rodgers, She Loves Me, Sheldon Harnick, South Pacific, Stephen Sondheim, The Body Beautiful, The Captain's Paradise, The Everley Brothers, The Pajama Game, West Side Story, Will Glickman
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March Monikers: “Maria”
March 2022 at Musical Cyberspace is all about songs with people’s names in the title. Today, come and meet ‘a girl named Maria.’ Continue reading
Forgotten Musicals Friday: LOOK MA, I’M DANCIN’!
I could show you my favourite obsession…. Well, it isn’t THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW. That’s not a forgotten musical. On the other hand, LOOK MA, I’M DANCIN’! is, one that is so charming that it would be churlish not to shine the spotlight on it here. Continue reading
Posted in Forgotten Musicals Friday
Tagged Arthur Laurents, Fiddler on the Roof, George Abbott, Good News, Gypsy, Hugh Martin, Jerome Lawrence, Jerome Robbins, Look Ma I'm Dancin'!, Mame, Meet Me in St Louis, Oklahoma!, On the Town, Robert Edwin Lee, THe Rocky Horror Show, West Side Story
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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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The Saturday List: The Best WEST SIDE STORY on Record
To mark the release of Steven Spielberg’s new film and its accompanying motion picture soundtrack, Musical Cyberspace is revisiting a favourite topic: just which recording of West Side Story is ‘the gold-medal kid with the heavyweight crown? Continue reading
Posted in Broadway, Cast Recording Reviews, The Saturday List
Tagged Ansell Elgort, Ariana DeBose, Arthur Laurents, Broadway, Carol Lawrence, Caroline O'Connor, Cast Recordings, Chita Rivera, David Newman, Gustavo Dudamel, Jerome Robbins, Jim Bryant, Larry Kert, Leonard Bernstein, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Marni Nixon, Mike Faist, Rachel Ziegler, Rita Moreno, Stephen Sondheim, Tony Kushner, West Side Story
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Monday Meditation: I’m Over the Closing Night Blues
Some thoughts on closing nights, following the shuttering of THE VISIT. Continue reading
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Tagged Follies, Fred Ebb, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Graciela Daniele, Jerome Robbins, John Kander, La Cage aux Folles, Peter Gennaro, Revisals, Revivals, Shirley MacLaine, Terrence McNally, The Color Purple, The Phantom of the Opera, The Visit, Tony Awards, West Side Story, Wicked
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NEWSFLASH: Musicals in South Africa in 2013 – a Retrospective
A look back at the musicals seen on stage in South Africa in 2013. Continue reading
The Saturday List: 5 Cookin’ Musicals of the 1950s
What’s buzzin, cuzzins? This is a list of 5 of my favourite musicals of the 1950s.
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Tagged Abe Burrows, Alan Jay Lerner, Angela Lansbury, Arthur Laurents, Frank Loesser, Frederick Loewe, Guys and Dolls, Gypsy, Jule Styne, Julie Andrews, Leonard Bernstein, My Fair Lady, Sandy Wilson, Stephen Sondheim, The Boy Friend, Tim Rice, West Side Story
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A Chain of Musicals: THE BOYS IN THE PHOTOGRAPH
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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