author: ethan mordden

... Funny Honey” atop a Helen Morgan–style upright piano, the lyrics cut into a dialogue scene in which her husband is ... song (“For her first number ... ”), and, after the scene, one of the ensemble appeared to announce the next “act ...

... Goodbye, Little Dream, Goodbye,”* was a rarity worthy of revival—and it gave the sweetheart. * Though a Porter number of the mid-1930s and thus sound Anything Goes material, “Goodbye” is technically not from a Porter show. Written for ...

... Carousel were also ballet shows ? But Oklahoma ! and Carousel were not zany ... scores . On the Town's dance arrangements are about the imagination that figures ... score early in the evening in the number " Ga- bey's Comin ' ( to town ) ...

... Bachiana Brasileira can reckon the style — lush and jungly yet sophisticated , Parisian , as well . Epic , intimate . Dapper , brutal . Broadway had heard nothing like it : operetta characters going beyond Romberg — Friml into ...

... The singers handled the melody (including a bemusing anticipation of Hello, Dolly! 's “Ribbons Down My Back” in “Your Good Morning”) while the comics kidded the Rockefellers, the demolition of the Women's House of Detention, Maria Callas ...

The Last Twenty-Five Years of the Broadway Musical Ethan Mordden. she may die but love will not, and we hear it in ... My Favorite Year (1992), based on Richard Benjamin's film about an Errol Flynn sort guesting on something like Sid ...

... The Fantasticks but a smash of the Big Broadway sort, high-powered and ... script—a procedure we really haven't seen much of, though it dates back to ... script tells us how much more faithfully Hollywood has lately been in its Broadway ...

... song cue, so we don't realize how telling they are. And Sally isn't ... lyrics, that of a wife trying to fight with a husband who apparently doesn't ... Broadway Baby,” crackles with ambition, and “Who's That Woman?,” for all its ...

... two shows were being written at the same time: the musical that was opening up I Am a Camera, and the musical that was opening up that musical with onstage cabaret numbers. Commentative numbers—“Two Ladies ... Cabaret,” on not voting when ...

... music), “April Showers” (to Louis Silvers' music), and so on. Not ... million copies of sheet music” and “two million records.” As to the song ... free advertising for the movie it “themed.” Better yet, it made fortunes for the studios ...

... lyrics people like Fred and Adele Astaire could sing : as innocent as a brother - and - sister act . Not much happens in Lady , Be Good ! The siblings hold chins high in adversity ( “ Hang On to Me " ) , the sister meets a guy ( “ So Am ...

... Sweeney Todd score, but a set of dialogues, at first for two characters, then another two, then all four? Which part of this quartet were they intending to hum? And is their humming more important than the urgency of plot action that ...

... Matilda (2010), from Roald Dahl's novel, also rotates young performers in the title role. Here the worrisome ... naughty,” she explains, in music snappy and syncopated. (Minchin marks the number “Swing.”) Reasoning it out as she juggles ...

... Show Boat's “Bill” her personal property, sings a couple of numbers. * This did not stop Hollywood from filming the story in 1934, without the slightest taste ofWeill's score. It's an anticipation ofthe bad luck Weill was to have in his ...

... Cry Me a River,” we hear how she feels about the lover who abandoned her ... music without having to get up and change the disc after three or four ... sheet music but in unique arrangements. And there was an acting coach, Allan Miller ...

... Carousel ( 1945 ) , * in most ways the essential R & H show . ( It was ... score to Pal Joey ( though it still has the swing that the later Rodgers ... Carousel , but he did score " The Carousel Waltz " and " Mister Snow . " Walker ...

... Honey they all sound alike, barring the odd novelty piece here and there, such as The Grand Tour's very situation- based “Wedding Conversation.” Herman's homogenization of oeuvre lies mainly in the music, extremely consistent over the ...

... Flute ) 1791 The Magic Flute , one of Mozart's last works , is an odd item ... titanic . Power : this was the morality of his symphonic outlook , power to ... theme that grows more triumphant from movement to movement . With his Seventh ...

... my irrepressible Davey-Boy,” said Tom-Tom, pulling a leather jacket out of the closet and handing me my dress coat, muffler, and the attache with the sheet music ... PARTY WAS, As always, the highlight of my holidays; after the Sheri concert ...

... Life On the Wicked Stage.”7 Then, too, the storyline 7. The former is not a separate number in the score, forming a segment of the musical scene leading up to “Make-Believe.” It is cited in the table of contents thus, though most ...

... Music Hall, Swingin' the Dream was a gigantic explosion of New Yorkism, with ... up with the third stunt: not to adapt but include Shakespeare, in both songs ... Brush Up Your Shakespeare” cites titles and characters from the Globe ...

... song : " My Man , " " created , " as the French express the first performance , by ... lyrics by Alex Rogers to Williams ' own music : When life seems full of ... Funny Honey " ) , Marilyn Miller ( " A Little Bit Of Good " ) , Ted Lewis ...

... Haydn usually likes to be in his finales . Alto- gether , this is a ... Symphony no . 94 in G Major , " Surprise " 1791 The famous " surprise " is ... Haydn's death , the piquancy of the chord's little legend made no . 94 the most ...

... Barefoot in the Park , when Redford turns wild he becomes scary , at least to Fonda . He crawls around on the roof of a brownstone , defying death . He ignores the state of his ties . He goes barefoot in the park . Of course , Barefoot ...

... comics , why should we sympathize with the soldier boy - French girl love story ? They're there partly to spell the ... hotcha spot , " Don't Let Anybody Vamp Your Man , " could have gone into any routine musical without a single lyric ...

... Ah! lève-toi soleil!” Detractors claimed the recording technicians had simply turned knobs in the studio when Corelli recorded Gounod's opera, with Mirella Freni. However, many heard him sing that diminuendo in the theatre. It was ...

... cheats. “Rapacious,” the Hamburger called him. “He'd steal your underpants ... Rome trip. But the thing was so convenient: he lived in Rome, he loved to ... total American. Brooklyn. Around fifty, short and thick and lined, with ...

... Che gelida manina . " And Puccini said , " Who sent you to me — God ? " A Secular Pope Vincenzo Lombardi , Caruso's coach and first major enthusiast , told conductor Leopoldo Mugnone that it was just a matter of time — not much time ...

... is Jay Gatsby truly wonderful or is he just attractive and Nick Carraway gay? But fairy tales present basic and consistent characters—the weak father and vicious stepmother, the gobbling goblin, the sweet little kids, the clueless king ...

... Funny Honey” isn't a torch song, though it does recall another genre Morgan worked in, the playful “He's not much but I love him” solo (which is in fact how “Bill” originally worked). “He ain't no sheik” is a central “Funny Honey” line ...

... Ann Blyth,” said Johnny. The Kid. Lois grimaced and Jo-Jo made no-no fingers at Johnny. “You know,” says the Kid, “I only describe what everyone sees.” The black Duesenberg was waiting for Johnny, the capped chauffeur as stiff as an ...

... She and Guardino had a flirtation duet, “Come Play Wiz Me,” in which the ... song, a tender lament by one who can't “lower my guard.” They fondly think ... theme song for an introvert doesn't mean you are one. Do I Hear a Waltz? An ...

... little wonders startle with their invention and idiosyncrasy . L'Italiana offers a classic instance of the frenetic ... chords and short choral notes under her vocal line , a simple tune deftly embellished . If Il Turco in Italia lacks L ...

... chords. Further, American Paul Hipp (in London, then in New York) embodied Holly perfectly, no casual achievement as Holly had an oddly nerdy look for a rock ... We Will Rock You (2012) was a stand-out, attracting those who normally skip ...