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what are some of the best melodys in a broadway show?
Jul 3
2011, 03:23:13 PM
It's Alright with Me (Can-Can)
Till There was You (The Music Man)
Fanny (Fanny)
I Say Hello (Destry Rides Again)
And This is my Beloved (Kismet)
Softly as in a Morning Sunrise (New Moon)
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re: Anyone else love Canada's 'Slings and Arrows?'
May 5
2011, 09:48:34 PM
A superbly written, produced & acted show. I wish it was more widely shown uncut in the US.
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Actor Michael Sarrazin, 70, dies in Montreal
Apr 22
2011, 05:18:49 PM
Michael Sarrazin was a prominent film & stage actor and will be greatly missed.
Michael Sarrazin, the understated star of films like They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? and The Flim-Flam Man, died Sunday, April 17 in Montreal after a brief, quiet battle with cancer, surrounded by his family. He was 70 years old.
http://www.montrealgazette.com/story_print.html?id=4635866&sponsor
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Best recording of the GYPSY overture.
Aug 25
2010, 09:34:17 PM
Although they never recorded it, Arthur Fiedler and John Williams conducted the Gypsy Overture in concerts at least once each in the 1960s & 1980s, but not in Boston. The version used in the majority of instances by symphony orchestras is not the Sid Ramin original for about 30 players used on cast recordings but Frank Perkins' expanded version of Ramin's orchestration used in the 1962 film version which calls for 70 players. Jule Styne himself conducts this version on the film soundtrack but although the overture was recorded in its entirety a severely edited version of the performance is used on the film's credits and even on the soundtrack album it is cut to about 3 minutes. The complete 5 and a half minute film overture was recorded only one more time, on a RCA & TER CD devoted to Jule Styne Overtures. Although it pales when compared to Styne's own performance with the incomparable Warner Bros Orchestra it is still, in my opinion, the biggest and brassiest performance of the Gypsy Overture and it is truly awesome hearing a large symphony orchestra playing it. Here is a link to a mp3 file of that performance by the National Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Jack Everly.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ma8wro
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A Tribute to Oscar Hammerstein
Aug 24
2010, 03:46:28 AM
My favourite Hammerstein lyric:
Softly, as in a morning sunrise
The light of love comes stealing
Into a new born day -- oh
Flaming with all the glow of sunrise
A burning kiss is sealing
The vow that all betray
For the passions that thrill love
And lift you high to heaven
Are the passions that kill love
And let you fall to hell
So ends the story
Softly, as in an evening sunset
The light that gave you glory
Will take it all away
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Most beautiful scores?
Aug 14
2010, 05:33:20 PM
Also: KISMET, SHOW BOAT, THE NEW MOON, DEAR WORLD & THE KING AND I
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Audrey Hepburn 'couldn't sing and couldn't act', says Emma Thompson
Aug 10
2010, 05:59:45 AM
Audrey Hepburn is one of only three actresses to receive a Best Actress Oscar (Roman Holiday) and Best Actress Tony (Ondine) in the same year, in addition to a Golden Globe and a BAFTA for her performances in Roman Holiday (1953), The Nun’s Story (1959) and Charade (1963). Any intelligent person who sees her in “Sabrina”, “The Nun’s Story”, “Love in the Afternoon”, "Breakfast at Tiffany's", “Charade”, “Wait Until Dark”, “Two for the Road” and yes, “My Fair Lady”, can attest that not only is she
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Who are Considered the Best Male Broadway Musical Performers of Godlen Age?
Jun 5
2010, 04:54:13 PM
ALSO:
Harve Presnell (Unsinkable Molly Brown)
William Tabbert (the original Joe Cable in SP & Marius in Fanny)
Mark Dawson (High Button Shoes, Fiorello)
Dennis King (The 3 Musketeers, Desert Song)
Wilbur Evans (Up in Central Park, South Pacific, New Moon)
Earl Wrightson (The Firebrand of Florence, Kiss Me Kate)
Gene Kelly (Leave it to Me & the original and for most people still unsurpassed as "Joey" in Pal Joey, who went on the an even bigger career in films as a musi
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Cleverest Lyrics?
Feb 1
2010, 07:53:43 PM
From the master of witty and clever, Cole Porter:
There's a prince whose home has become a must
For the lower men of the upper crust
Cause his high born wife
Has such a low cut bust
Come along with me
If you'd like to dine with an old Marquis
Who will swear that technically he is free
But his wife's the only technicality
Come along with me
from Can-Can (1953)
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If Sondheim wrote a musical adaptation of a movie....
Jan 26
2010, 05:30:26 PM
The Swedish science fiction comedy "Kenny Begins", which is a prequel to the excellent TV series "Kenny Starfighter" about two intergalactic misfits would be an unusual but perfect fit for a Sondheim score in a musical stage adaptation. Why? Because every other composer currently writing Broadway scores would provide a futuristic score in the present that would quickly become dated but, if inspired by the material, Sondheim would provide a futuristic score that would be ahead of its time in th
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a big succesful show that hasn't been revived yet.
Jan 10
2010, 02:27:24 AM
KISMET (which has never been revived if you don't count the 1970's reworked all black staging called "Timbuktu")
THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN (It may not be a hit like "The Music Man", but the movie version was a monster hit and the show has been a reliable hit in regional theater for many years.)
WILDCAT (which was a big hit that only closed early because star Lucille Ball got exhausted and abruptly left the show. Christine Ebersole would be great in a revival.)
FANNY (yes, En
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re: Oscar winner Jennifer Jones dies at 90
Dec 21
2009, 12:47:46 AM
One of the most beautiful and talented actresses ever to appear on stage and in films. No actress today even comes close in comparison..
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Re: Botched Film Musicals
Nov 16
2009, 04:02:43 AM
The 2001 remake of South Pacific with grandma Glenn Close playing Nellie, Rade Serbedzija playing Emile like he is in a coma, Lori Tan Chinn portraying Bloody Mary as a filthy bag lady and worst of all, Harry Connick attempting to play Cable, who is from Philadelphia, with his usual fake Cajun accent. And if that isn't enough, the score was truncated beyond recognition and sung badly. A misfire from the word go.
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re: Which Finian's Rainbow Cast Recording is the Best?
Oct 29
2009, 06:28:01 AM
The best combination of performance and sound has to be the 1960 revival cast recording with Jeannie Carson, Biff McGuire, Howard Morris & especially Carol Brice's superb vocal of "Necessity". The early stereo sound is still quite clean and the full sized original orchestrations are used.
The 1968 film soundtrack uses Ray Heindorf's gorgeous expanded orchestrations played to perfection by the 65 piece Warner Bros studio orchestra. That combined with Petula Clark's still unsurpassed
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Soundtracks ARE cast recordings.
Oct 13
2009, 05:56:36 AM
Actually, until the era of digital recording in the 1980's, motion picture sound recording quality has always been at least a decade or more ahead of anything the record labels could achieve, especially in the 1940's, 50's & 60's. "Recorded directly from the Sound Track" is a marketing phrase used by MGM Records, no different than RCA's "An Original Sound Track Recording", Decca's "Music from the Sound Track" and other variations used by other labels. All such recordings, beginning with "Till
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re: Broadway Hero
Oct 6
2009, 04:15:33 PM
Stella Adler & Lee Strasberg , who revolutionized the craft of acting on the American stage by introducing and teaching the Stanislavski system, which later came to be known as the "Method".
Tennessee Williams, whose plays tackled controversial characters and subjects with a frank, unflinching realism that was made to order for the new generation of brilliant young actors (Brando, Dean, Clift, etc) trained by Adler and Strasberg in the "Method" style of acting, and embraced by cutting
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re: Great Farce plays
Sep 30
2009, 08:46:02 PM
MARY, MARY by Jean Kerr
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Wilma Cozart Fine, Mercury Living & Perfect Presence Music Record Producer, Dies at 82
Sep 28
2009, 08:07:06 PM
I know that Wilma Cozart Fine, who passed away on Sept. 24, and her late brilliant engineer husband, Robert Fine, are usually more associated with classical music but it is appropriate to remember her on Broadway world because the Fines also produced the superb Frederick Fennell albums devoted to the music of Victor Herbert, Cole Porter, George Gershwin and other Musical Theater composers which are still prized and enjoyed today and in many cases served as an introduction to the music of these composers in the 1950s and 1960s. Since the mid to late 1980s Musical Theater has been elevated deservedly to the status of other older serious music art forms such as Opera and Classical music but The Fines, Fennell, Charles Gerhardt, Goddard Lieberson and a few others treated theater and film music as something special beyond Pop many years earlier and recorded this music with the same care and engineering skill that was lavished on Classical and Opera. My grandmother's Mercury LP of Fennell's "Broadway Marches" is one of the first which perked my interest in exploring this genre of music and I am forever grateful and will remember Wilma Cozart Fine for her valuable contribution in making theater music more accessible and preserved through the Mercury Living Presence recordings she produced. Below is a link to the New York Times tribute to the late Wilma Cozart Fine.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/25/arts/music/25fine.html
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re: 10 Musicals
Sep 6
2009, 03:03:43 AM
1. Show Boat
2. Carousel
3. Company
4. My Fair Lady
5. West Side Story
6. Candide
7. Kismet
8. The Most Happy Fella
9. Crazy for You
10. Hair
How did you hear about 7?
I saw the 1955 movie in the 1970's and attended a regional stage production later.
Would 4 make a good movie?
It was made in 1964 and will likely never be surpassed by any remake.
What's your favorite song from 10?
Easy to be Hard
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