"Deaf Side Story Deaf Side Story is a musical based on ""West Side Story"", itself an adaptation of William Shakespeare's play ""Romeo and Juliet"". Takes place in New York City during the mid-1950s, the musical based on West Side Story explores the rivalry between the two gangs Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different cultural backgrounds (Deaf and Hearing). The members of the Sharks from Puerto Rico are taunted by the Jets, a white working-class group. The young protagonist, Tony, one of the Jets, falls in love with Maria, the sister of Bernardo, the leader of the"
"as ""West Side Story"" and ""A Chorus Line"" broke previous records. At the same time, shows like Stephen Sondheim's ""Company"" began to deconstruct the musical form as it has been practiced through the mid-century, moving away from traditional plot and realistic external settings to explore the central character's inner state; his ""Follies"" relied on pastiches of the Ziegfeld Follies-styled revue; his ""Pacific Overtures"" used Japanese kabuki theatrical practices; and ""Merrily We Roll Along"" told its story backwards. Similarly, Bob Fosse's production of Chicago returned the musical to its vaudeville origins. Facts and figures of the post-war theater The post-war American"
"from West Side Story” recomposed and conducted by its original composer Leonard Bernstein and performed by the New York Philharmonic recorded at the Manhattan Center on March 6, 1961. It was recorded at the CBS 30th Street Studio in New York City. All tracks written by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim. West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast) West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast) is the 1957 recording of a Broadway production of the musical ""West Side Story"". Recorded 3 days after the show opened at the Winter Garden Theatre, the recording was released in October 1957 in both mono and"
"West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast) West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast) is the 1957 recording of a Broadway production of the musical ""West Side Story"". Recorded 3 days after the show opened at the Winter Garden Theatre, the recording was released in October 1957 in both mono and stereo formats. In 1962, the album reached #5 on Billboard's Pop Album chart. It certified gold by the RIAA on January 12, 1962. The album was reissued in 1973 and made its first appearance on CD in 1986. A 1997 remastered edition is coupled with an orchestral suite named “Symphonic Dances"
"to such groundbreaking works as ""Show Boat"" (1927) and ""Oklahoma!"" (1943). Some of the most famous musicals through the decades that followed include ""West Side Story"" (1957), ""The Fantasticks"" (1960), ""Hair"" (1967), ""A Chorus Line"" (1975), ""Les Misérables"" (1985), ""The Phantom of the Opera"" (1986), ""Rent"" (1996), ""The Producers"" (2001), ""Wicked"" (2003) and ""Hamilton"" (2015). Musicals are performed around the world. They may be presented in large venues, such as big-budget Broadway or West End productions in New York City or London. Alternatively, musicals may be staged in smaller venues, such as fringe theatre, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, regional theatre, or community"
"Side Story"". ""West Side Story"" is a contemporary version of ""Romeo and Juliet"", set in Hell's Kitchen. The show, with music by Leonard Bernstein, marked the first collaboration between Robbins and Stephen Sondheim, who wrote the lyrics, as well as Arthur Laurents, who wrote the book. Because book, music, and dance were envisioned as an organic whole, the cast, in a Broadway first, had to be equally skilled as actors, singers, and dancers. To help the young cast grow into their roles, Robbins did not allow those playing members of opposite gangs (Jets and Sharks) to mix during the rehearsal"
"nominated as Best Reproduction (Play or Musical). Allen won the Drama Desk Award as Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical. Other notable cast members in the revival included Brent Barrett as Diesel, Harolyn Blackwell as Francisca, Stephen Bogardus as Mouth Piece and Reed Jones as Big Deal. The Minskoff production subsequently opened the Nervi Festival in Genoa, Italy, in July 1981 with Josie de Guzman as Maria and Brent Barrett as Tony. In 2007, Arthur Laurents stated, ""I've come up with a way of doing [""West Side Story""] that will make it absolutely contemporary without changing a word or a"
"from the dream sequence and says that's not the rumble he had in mind. Tonight Quintet The ""Tonight Quintet"" is a number from the musical ""West Side Story"" (1957), with music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Carol J. Oja has written that, ""with the 'Tonight' quintet, Bernstein once again created a masterpiece of ensemble, one that rivals the best of such moments in European opera."" Her remark echoes the earlier view of Will Crutchfield. In his review of the 1984 studio performance of ""West Side Story"", which was conducted by Bernstein himself, Crutchfield wrote that the release"
"third musical together, New Girl in Town, was a modest hit but they were looking for more meaningful subject matter. When the opportunity came to work with Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, and Stephen Sondheim on a new musical based on the Shakespearean play Romeo and Juliet they jumped at the opportunity. The show that was created, West Side Story, wasn't a hit at first but has now become a classic of American musical theatre. Griffith and Prince's last producing venture together, Fiorello!, not only tied with The Sound of Music to win the Tony Award for Best Musical, but also"
"night. Amsterdam daily ""Het Parool"" wrote: ""A wonderful, subdued 'Love Story'. No superficial pathos, wonderful melodies by Howard Goodall... A little, surprisingly enchanting version of this well known story"". Love Story (musical) Love Story is a musical written by Stephen Clark with music by Howard Goodall and lyrics by Stephen Clark and Goodall. It is inspired by Erich Segal’s best-selling novel of the same name. ""Love Story"" transferred to the Duchess Theatre in the West End in December 2010 following a critically acclaimed sell-out season at the Chichester Festival Theatre. At Jenny's funeral, her family and friends flashback (""What can"
"Tribune"" on September 27, 1957: The other reviews generally joined in speculation about how the new work would influence the course of musical theater. Typical was John Chapman's review in the ""New York Daily News"" on September 27, 1957, headed: ""West Side Story a Splendid and Super-Modern Musical Drama"". ""Time"" magazine found the dance and gang warfare more compelling than the love story and noted that the show's ""putting choreography foremost, may prove a milestone in musical-drama history ..."" The score for ""West Side Story"" was orchestrated by Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal following detailed instructions from Bernstein, who then"
"Tonight Quintet The ""Tonight Quintet"" is a number from the musical ""West Side Story"" (1957), with music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Carol J. Oja has written that, ""with the 'Tonight' quintet, Bernstein once again created a masterpiece of ensemble, one that rivals the best of such moments in European opera."" Her remark echoes the earlier view of Will Crutchfield. In his review of the 1984 studio performance of ""West Side Story"", which was conducted by Bernstein himself, Crutchfield wrote that the release of the recording ""is above all an occasion for celebrating one of the great"
"wrote revisions on their manuscript (the original, heavily annotated by Ramin, Kostal and Bernstein himself is in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at Columbia University). Ramin, Kostal, and Bernstein are billed as orchestrators for the show. The orchestra consisted of 31 players: a large Broadway pit orchestra enhanced to include 5 percussionists, a guitarist and a piano/celesta player. In 1961, Bernstein prepared a suite of orchestral music from the show, titled ""Symphonic Dances from West Side Story"": Recordings of ""West Side Story"" include the following: The 1961 film adaptation of the musical received praise from critics and the public,"
"which ran for 2,707 performances, becoming the longest-running off-Broadway musical until ""The Fantasticks"". The production also broke ground by showing that musicals could be profitable off-Broadway in a small-scale, small orchestra format. This was confirmed in 1959 when a revival of Jerome Kern and P. G. Wodehouse's ""Leave It to Jane"" ran for more than two years. The 1959–1960 Off-Broadway season included a dozen musicals and revues including ""Little Mary Sunshine"", ""The Fantasticks"" and ""Ernest in Love"", a musical adaptation of Oscar Wilde's 1895 hit ""The Importance of Being Earnest"". ""West Side Story"" (1957) transported ""Romeo and Juliet"" to modern"
"A Christmas Story: The Musical A Christmas Story: The Musical is a musical version of the film ""A Christmas Story"". The musical has music and lyrics written by Pasek & Paul and the book by Joseph Robinette. The musical takes place in the 1940s in Indiana and focuses on a child named Ralphie, who wants a Red Ryder BB Gun for Christmas. After numerous regional productions, out of town tryouts and national tours, this version of the musical originally officially opened on Broadway in November 2012 at the Lunt Fontanne Theatre for a limited engagement that ran through December 2012."
"Love Story (musical) Love Story is a musical written by Stephen Clark with music by Howard Goodall and lyrics by Stephen Clark and Goodall. It is inspired by Erich Segal’s best-selling novel of the same name. ""Love Story"" transferred to the Duchess Theatre in the West End in December 2010 following a critically acclaimed sell-out season at the Chichester Festival Theatre. At Jenny's funeral, her family and friends flashback (""What can you say about a girl?"") about her life. Oliver is a rich young man who meets a spirited young woman, Jenny. She is poor and of Italian heritage, but"
"West Side Story Bossa Nova West Side Story Bossa Nova is an album by saxophonist Bill Barron fearturing bossa nova versions of tunes from the Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim musical ""West Side Story"" which was recorded in 1963 and first released on the Dauntlesss label. In his review on Allmusic, Ken Dryden states ""The tenor saxophonist's orchestra is actually only a septet, but it's a potent group who puts out a big sound ... Barron's arrangements are brief (all under four minutes each), but very enjoyable, with snappy takes of ""Cool"" and ""America"" as well as a brief ""Maria,"""
"2014 it transferred to the West End's Shaftesbury Theatre. The West End transfer received positive reviews from a number of national media outlets. The production ran for a limited season at the Shaftesbury Theatre, closing on 13 September 2014. The Pajama Game The Pajama Game is a musical based on the 1953 novel ""7½ Cents"" by Richard Bissell. The book is by George Abbott and Richard Bissell; the music and lyrics are by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story deals with labor troubles in a pajama factory, where workers' demands for a seven-and-a-half cent raise are going unheeded. In"
"the Newport Jazz Festival, Kennedy Center, London Jazz Festival, Moers Festival (Germany), Radio France, Montreal Jazz Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, BMW Jazz Festival (Brazil), Winter Jazz Fest (NYC), Jazz a Parque (Bogota, Colombia), and the Wangaratta Jazz Festival (Australia), among others. As a theater musician, he has played in the Broadway pits of ""West Side Story"", ""Thoroughly Modern Millie"", ""The Addams Family"", ""Billy Elliot"", ""Wonderful Town"", ""Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me"", the ""Radio City Christmas Spectacular"", ""February House"" (Joe's Pub), ""Matilda"", and has also performed with Broadway legend Chita Rivera. In 2017, he began work as the onstage clarinetist for"
"The play influenced several jazz works, including Peggy Lee's ""Fever"". Duke Ellington's ""Such Sweet Thunder"" contains a piece entitled ""The Star-Crossed Lovers"" in which the pair are represented by tenor and alto saxophones: critics noted that Juliet's sax dominates the piece, rather than offering an image of equality. The play has frequently influenced popular music, including works by The Supremes, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Lou Reed, and Taylor Swift. The most famous such track is Dire Straits' ""Romeo and Juliet"". The most famous musical theatre adaptation is ""West Side Story"" with music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim."
"the West End theatre and ran for 685 performances; many revivals have followed. A 1954 film version starred Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse, and a 1966 television version starred Robert Goulet and Peter Falk. Lyricist and book writer Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe had previously collaborated on three musicals; the first, ""Life of the Party"", closed during pre-Broadway tryouts, and the second and third, ""What's Up?"" and ""The Day Before Spring"", had met with moderate success. Inspired by Rodgers and Hammerstein's successful collaborations ""Oklahoma!"" and ""Carousel"", they created ""Brigadoon"", about a magical village in the Scottish highlands. Like"
"in Kern and Hammerstein's ""Show Boat"" (1927), among others. The characters in a musical may be more complex than those in an operetta, given the generally larger amount of dialogue. For example, the characters in Lerner and Loewe's musical ""My Fair Lady"" – based on George Bernard Shaw's 1914 play ""Pygmalion"" – are essentially unchanged from those in Shaw's stage work, because the musical version is quite faithful to the original, even to the point of retaining most of Shaw's dialogue. ""Man of la Mancha"", adapted by Dale Wasserman from his own ninety-minute television play ""I, Don Quixote"", retains much"
"Music Man"", ""Urban Cowboy:The Musical"", ""The Merry Wives of Windsor"" (Opera), ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" (Opera), ""The Magic Flute"", ""The Pirates of Penzance"", ""Guys and Dolls"", ""Falstaff"", ""Lucia di Lammermoor"", ""Oil City Symphony"", ""The Boor"" (Opera), ""Signor Deluso"", ""The Medium"", ""The Fantastiks"", ""Man of La Mancha"", ""Songs For a New World"", ""The Merry Widow"", ""Suor Angelica"", ""L'heure espagnole"", ""Kiss Me, Kate"", ""West Side Story"", ""Passion"", ""Susannah"", ""Così fan tutte]"", ""The Elixir of Love"", ""Bye Bye Birdie"", ""The Tender Land"", ""Working"", ""The Impresario"" and ""Oklahoma!"". The Wanda L. Bass School of Music produces another, student run, Music Theatre Company called ""Stripped""."
"of the authors who had revised the tale of ""Sweeney Todd"" over the years, had put the plot into the story. Nevertheless, in 1977, he wrote of Sondheim ""I needn't tell you that Stephen Sondheim is, both musically and lyrically, the most sophisticated composer now working for the Broadway theater."" In reviewing Leonard Bernstein's ""West Side Story"" he focused on the dancing: ""the most savage, restless, electrifying dance patterns we've been exposed to in a dozen seasons... The dancing is it. Don't look for laughter or—for that matter—tears."" In his review of the original 1956 Broadway production of ""Candide"", he"
"note."" He directed a pre-Broadway production of ""West Side Story"" at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C. that ran from December 15, 2008, through January 17, 2009. The Broadway revival began previews at the Palace Theatre on February 23, 2009, and opened on March 19, 2009. The production wove Spanish lyrics and dialogue into the English libretto. The translations are by Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda. Laurents stated, ""The musical theatre and cultural conventions of 1957 made it next to impossible for the characters to have authenticity. Every member of both gangs was always a potential killer even then. Now"
"BackstageWest Garland Award, the GLAAD Media Award, the Cable Car Award and the LA Weekly Award for ""Best Musical"". Medea, the Musical Medea, the Musical is a 1994 musical comedy by American playwright John Fisher. The play, a farce, concerns a theater director's attempt to recast ""Medea"", the ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides, as a serious modern commentary on LGBT culture, which goes humorously wrong when the director's cast and crew refuse to conform to the stereotyped roles he has created for them. The play became a long-running ""cult favorite"" in San Francisco in the mid 1990s before touring regionally."
"West Company in both Los Angeles (2002) and New York, (2003) at the American Airlines Theater, and received a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical. Big River was also produced as part of the Encores Series at City Center Theater in New York in 2017. Program Notes: From Playbill of Encores Production of Big River, 2016: ""It was a time when everybody played by the rules of Satchel Paige: Don't worry about the things you can't do nothing about, dance like nobody's watching, and love like you can't get hurt."" He has also contributed articles to The Atlantic"
"traveled to New York to promote the school and the school's revival of the musical. ""West Side Story"" was performed at UNCSA's Stevens Center from May 3–13, 2007, and then went on tour to Chicago's Ravinia Festival on June 8, 2007. The production was directed by Dean of Drama Gerald Freedman, the assistant director of the original production, and conducted by UNCSA Chancellor and world renown conductor John Mauceri. It has also been reported that Arthur Laurents changed portions of the dialogue for the UNCSA production. In May 2011, UNCSA presented ""Oklahoma!"" as an all-school musical. All school musicals are"
"style is strongly identified with the show. Following a West End debut in 1979 which ran for 600 performances, ""Chicago"" was revived on Broadway in 1996, and a year later in the West End. The Broadway revival holds the record as the longest-running musical revival and the longest-running American musical in Broadway history. It is the second longest-running show in Broadway history, behind only ""The Phantom of the Opera"", having played its 7,486th performance on November 23, 2014, surpassing ""Cats"". The West End revival became the longest-running American musical in West End history. ""Chicago"" has been staged in numerous productions"
"Rosalie (musical) Rosalie is a musical with music by George Gershwin and Sigmund Romberg, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and P.G. Wodehouse, and book by William Anthony McGuire and Guy Bolton. The story tells of a princess from a faraway land who comes to America and falls in love with a West Point Lieutenant. It was first produced on Broadway in 1928 at the New Amsterdam Theatre. It was adapted in 1937 as a musical film with songs by Cole Porter. The musical, produced by Florenz Ziegfeld, premiered on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre on January 10, 1928 and ran"
"Black"" is the second longest running stage play. Written by Catherine Johnson, ""Mamma Mia!"" is the West End's longest running jukebox musical. Richard O'Brien's 1973 West End musical ""The Rocky Horror Show"" has been ranked among the ""Nation's Number One Essential Musicals"". Peter Shaffer's 1979 play ""Amadeus"" premiered at the National Theatre. Elton John composed the music for ""The Lion King"" (lyrics by Rice) and ""Billy Elliot the Musical"", with both running for over a decade on the West End. Eric Idle's ""Monty Python's Spamalot"" made its West End debut in 2006. ""Matilda the Musical"" (an adaptation of Roald Dahl's"
"West Side Story Suite West Side Story Suite is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to the 1957 music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim and extracted from the eponymous musical which he had choreographed, with scenery by Oliver Smith, costumes by Irene Sharaff and lighting by Jennifer Tipton. The premiere took place at New York State Theater on Thursday, May 18, 1995. Nikolaj Hübbe and Jock Soto, both members of the original cast, as well as Peter Boal all chose to include ""West Side Story Suite"" in their farewell performances at City"
"The musical premiered at the Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Missouri in December 2009. The music and lyrics for that version were written by Scott Davenport Richards; the musical was directed by Eric Rosen with the book by Joseph Robinette, and featured John Bolton as ""The Old Man"" and Anne L. Nathan as Mother. Zachary Sayle appeared as Ralphie Parker and Jake Siegfried as younger brother, Randy Parker. Benj Pasek and Justin Paul were hired to re-do the score after the Kansas City engagement. ""A Christmas Story: The Musical"" opened at the 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle, Washington, on December 9, 2010"