"Saul Chaplin Saul Chaplin (February 19, 1912 – November 15, 1997) was an American composer and musical director. He was born Saul Kaplan in Brooklyn, New York. He had worked on stage, screen and television since the days of Tin Pan Alley. In film, he won three Oscars for collaborating on the scores and orchestrations of ""An American in Paris"" (1951), ""Seven Brides for Seven Brothers"" (1954) and ""West Side Story"" (1961). Following education at New York University's School of Commerce, where he studied accounting, Chaplin joined the ASCAP and started out penning tunes for the theatre, vaudeville and for"
"in the United States. The film was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and won 10, including Best Picture (as well as a special award for Robbins), becoming the record holder for the most wins for a movie musical. The film has been deemed ""culturally significant"" by the United States Library of Congress and was selected for the National Film Registry in 1997. In the summer of 1957 in the West Side's Lincoln Square neighborhood in Manhattan, there is tension between a white American gang, the Jets, led by Riff Lorton, and a Puerto Rican gang, the Sharks, led by Bernardo"
"choreography by Jerome Robbins. Widely admired, and the winner of ten Oscars, the 1961 film of the show – set among New York gangs – does not aim for a realistic portrayal of New York gang culture: in the opening sequence the Jets and the Sharks trade dance-steps instead of blows. The Jets are a gang of white youths, equivalent to Shakespeare's Montagues; the Sharks, equivalent to the Capulets, are Puerto Rican. Unlike Shakespeare who included relationships between his young lovers and the older generation (the parents, and parent-substitutes such as the Nurse and Friar Laurence) ""West Side Story"" keeps"
"on in the 1961 movie that we are focusing on."" Ansel Elgort has been cast as Tony in the film. In addition to Bernstein's own ""West Side Story Suite"", the music from the musical has been adapted by The Buddy Rich Big Band, which arranged and recorded ""West Side Story Medley"" on the 1966 album ""Buddy Rich's Swingin' New Big Band"". The Stan Kenton Orchestra recorded Johnny Richards' 1961 ""Kenton's West Side Story"", an album of jazz orchestrations based on the Bernstein scores. It won the 1962 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Recording by a Large Group. The 1996 album"
"New York) is a satire on modern art and critical pretension. A revue, ""Sigh No More"" (1945), was a moderate success, but two musicals, ""Pacific 1860"" (1946), a lavish South Seas romance, and ""Ace of Clubs"" (1949), set in a night club, were financial failures. Further blows in this period were the deaths of Coward's friends Charles Cochran and Gertrude Lawrence, in 1951 and 1952 respectively. Despite his disappointments, Coward maintained a high public profile; his performance as King Magnus in Shaw's ""The Apple Cart"" for the Coronation season of 1953, co-starring Margaret Leighton, received much coverage in the press,"
"and ""House of Flowers"". In 1957, Actress and Producer Katharine Cornell placed him in a role on Broadway in Robert E. Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize winning play about the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, ""There Shall Be No Night"". The play was adapted for television for a ""Hallmark Hall of Fame"" production. He had a prominent role in the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical ""Me and Juliet"", portraying the stage manager of the musical-within-the-musical, but his character did not participate in any of the musical numbers. Walston reprised his role in the 1958 film version of ""Damn Yankees"". His other films included ""Kiss"
"Lullaby of Broadway (film) Lullaby of Broadway is a 1951 American musical romantic comedy film directed by David Butler and released by Warner Bros.. It stars Doris Day as Melinda Howard, an entertainer who travels to New York to see her mother, and Gene Nelson as Tom Farnham, a fellow entertainer and Melinda's love interest. Gladys George appears as Jessica Howard, Melinda's alcoholic mother, in addition to S.Z. Sakall, Billy De Wolfe, Florence Bates, and Anne Triola. Songs from the film were released in an album of the same name. Melinda Howard is an entertainer traveling from England to pay"
"11th Golden Globe Awards The 11th Golden Globe Awards, were held in Santa Monica, California at the Club Del Mar honoring the best in film for 1953 films, on January 22, 1954. ""' ""The Robe directed by Henry Koster"" ""' Spencer Tracy – ""The Actress"" ""' David Niven – ""The Moon is Blue"" ""' Audrey Hepburn – ""Roman Holiday"" ""' Grace Kelly – ""Mogambo"" ""' Frank Sinatra – ""From Here to Eternity"" ""' Fred Zinnemann – ""From Here to Eternity"" ""' ""Lili – Helen Deutsch"" ""' ""Alan Ladd together with Robert Taylor"" ""' ""Marilyn Monroe"" ""' ""Walt Disney"" for artistic"
"case of the MGM musicals, it was usually Conrad Salinger, and in the case of ""West Side Story"", it was Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal. As mentioned earlier, Green conducted the orchestra for such famous MGM musicals as ""An American in Paris"", as well as for United Artists' 1961 film version of ""West Side Story"". In 1965, Green conducted the music for that year's new adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's only musical for television, ""Cinderella"", starring Lesley Ann Warren, Walter Pidgeon, Ginger Rogers, and Stuart Damon. Johnny Green also adapted, orchestrated and conducted the music for the film ""Oliver!"" (1968),"
"""' ""Jack Cummings"" for producer at MGM for 30 years ""' ""Guy Madison"" for best western star 11th Golden Globe Awards The 11th Golden Globe Awards, were held in Santa Monica, California at the Club Del Mar honoring the best in film for 1953 films, on January 22, 1954. ""' ""The Robe directed by Henry Koster"" ""' Spencer Tracy – ""The Actress"" ""' David Niven – ""The Moon is Blue"" ""' Audrey Hepburn – ""Roman Holiday"" ""' Grace Kelly – ""Mogambo"" ""' Frank Sinatra – ""From Here to Eternity"" ""' Fred Zinnemann – ""From Here to Eternity"" ""' ""Lili –"
"referred to Robbins' work as one of the most influential stagings of a musical in American theatrical history. The original production received eight Tony Award nominations, including Best Musical, Best Actress in a Musical, Best Featured Actor in a Musical, Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Best Scenic Design, Best Costume Design and Best Direction of a Musical, but failed to win any. When the show closed in March 1961, two national touring companies toured the US. The first company starred Merman and opened in March 1961 at the Rochester, New York Auditorium, and closed in December 1961 at the"
"New York City and ran on Broadway for 1,443 performances, winning six Tony Awards, including Best Musical. In June 1960, Twentieth Century Fox purchased the film adaptation rights to the stage musical for $1.25 million () against ten percent of the gross. For the film, Richard Rodgers added two new songs, ""I Have Confidence"" and ""Something Good"", for which he wrote the lyrics as well as the music (Hammerstein having died in August 1960), while three of the original stage songs were omitted, ""How Can Love Survive"", ""No Way To Stop It"" and ""An Ordinary Couple"". Arranger and conductor Irwin"
"their list of the greatest film scores. His scores for ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" (1961), ""Charade"" (1963), ""Hatari!"" (1962), ""Touch of Evil"" (1958) and ""Wait Until Dark"" (1967) were also nominated for the list. Mancini was nominated for seventy-two Grammy Awards and won twenty. He was nominated for eighteen Academy Awards and won four. He also won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for two Emmy Awards. In 1961, Mancini won two Academy Awards, one for ""Moon River"" for Best Original Song and one for Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture for the movie ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"". In"
"nominees included ""Anastasia"" – 13; ""Hello, Dolly!"" — 10; ""The Band's Visit"" and ""Come from Away"" — 7; ""Groundhog Day"" — 5; ""A Bronx Tale"" — 4; ""Falsettos"", ""Holiday Inn"", and ""Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812"" — 3; and ""Miss Saigon"", ""Sunset Boulevard"" — 1. Multiple winners: ""Come from Away"" and ""Hello, Dolly!"" – 4; ""The Band's Visit"" and ""Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812"" – 2. The Outstanding New Broadway Musical was ""Come from Away"", and the Outstanding New Broadway Play was ""Oslo""; Outstanding Revival of a Play was ""Jitney"" and Outstanding Revival of"
"running Off-Broadway non-musical of the decade. Originally premiered in Paris in 1959, this 1961 New York production ran for 1,408 performances. The original cast featured James Earl Jones, Roscoe Lee Browne, Louis Gossett, Jr., Cicely Tyson, Godfrey Cambridge, Maya Angelou and Charles Gordone. In 1950, Genet directed ""Un Chant d'Amour"", a 26-minute black-and-white film depicting the fantasies of a gay male prisoner and his prison warden. Genet's work has also been adapted for film and produced by other filmmakers. In 1982, Rainer Werner Fassbinder released ""Querelle"", his final film, which was based on ""Querelle of Brest"". It starred Brad Davis,"
"of the late 1950s including ""Rebel Without a Cause"" (1955), ""Crime in the Streets"" (1956), ""12 Angry Men"" (1957), ""The Delinquents"" (1957), ""High School Confidential"" (1958), and the 1957 Broadway musical ""West Side Story"". Hollywood's fixation on the switchblade as the symbol of youth violence, sex, and delinquency resulted in renewed demands from the public and Congress to control the sale and possession of such knives. State laws restricting or criminalizing switchblade possession and use were adopted by an increasing number of state legislatures. In 1957, Senator Estes Kefauver (D) of Tennessee attempted unsuccessfully to pass a law restricting the"
"award nominations in 1984 including an Academy Award, two Golden Globes, and three BAFTA awards. Elliott and Curtis attracted the film's two wins, earning respectively, the BAFTA award for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress. A score album was released by La-La Land Records on October 11, 2011 and was limited to 2000 copies. The album features Elmer Bernstein's Oscar-nominated score, as well as the source material that he wrote and arranged, including traditional Christmas carols that appear in the film. A significant portion of Bernstein's music is based on Mozart's music from ""The Marriage of Figaro"". ""Do Ya"
"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"
"Fred Astaire won an honorary Academy Award for ""his unique artistry and his contributions to the technique of musical pictures,"" presented to him at the awards ceremony by Ginger Rogers. ""The Barkleys of Broadway"" premiered in New York on 4 May 1949 and went into general American release shortly after. Three other Harry Warren-Ira Gershwin songs were intended for the film but never used: ""The Courtin' of Elmer and Ella,"" ""Natchez on the Mississippi,"" and ""Poetry in Motion."" Another song by Warren and Gershwin, ""There is No Music"", was dropped from the film when Judy Garland was released from the"
"New York, New York (1977 film) New York, New York is a 1977 American musical drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Mardik Martin and Earl Mac Rauch based on a story by Rauch. It is a musical tribute, featuring new songs by John Kander and Fred Ebb as well as jazz standards, to Scorsese's home town of New York City, and stars Robert De Niro and Liza Minnelli as a pair of musicians and lovers. The story is ""about a jazz saxophonist (De Niro) and a pop singer (Minnelli) who fall madly in love and marry""; however,"
"supporting actor and actress. However, they were defeated by George Chakiris and Rita Moreno as part of the ""West Side Story"" sweep. The musical film wound up winning a total of ten Academy Awards including Best Picture. For the first time, two directors shared the award in the Directing category (Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for ""West Side Story""). These films had multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards. 34th Academy Awards The 34th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1961, were held on April 9, 1962, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California."
"(1964), and another 12 nominations. She was perhaps best known for her period costumes, in such films as ""The Ten Commandments"" (1956), ""The Music Man"" (1962), ""The Sound of Music"" (1965), ""Little Big Man"" (1970), ""The Way We Were"" (1973), ""Young Frankenstein"" (1974) and ""The Dead"" (1987). Her modern-dress excursions included ""Niagara"" (1953), ""Three Coins in the Fountain"" (1954), ""South Pacific"" (1958) and ""On Golden Pond"" (1981). Jeakins also worked on stage productions, including ""South Pacific"" (in which Motley was the principal costume designer), ""King Lear"", ""Winesburg, Ohio"" and ""The World of Suzie Wong"" (for which she received her third"
"the lead for ""The George Raft Story"" that Danton also played. Danton reprised his role as Legs Diamond in ""Portrait of a Mobster"" (1961). From Howard Thompson of ""The New York Times"": After he saw the film, guitarist Hank Marvin was inspired to give the name of the film to his ""The Rise and Fall of Flingel Bunt"". In 2008, the American Film Institute nominated this film for its Top 10 Gangster Films list. The film was remade as a musical entitled ""Legs Diamond"" which debuted on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on December 26, 1988, and closed on"
"million. Despite critics being dismissive of the overall plot, the film was nominated for three awards in 1961: Best Soundtrack album Grammy, Grammy for Best Vocal Performance, Album, Male, and WGA Best Written Musical. Presley's return to the screen led to a riot in a Mexico City theater showing ""G.I. Blues"", prompting the Mexican government to ban Presley's movies. ""G.I. Blues"" reached No. 2 on ""Variety""'s weekly list of top-grossing films in 1960. The success of ""G.I. Blues"" may have ironically been the catalyst for the formulaic films that Presley was to make for much of the 1960s. His next"
"Awards for best musical, best music and best lyrics. It was revived on Broadway in 1995 and 2006. ""Follies"" (1971), with a book by James Goldman, opened on April 4, 1971 at the Winter Garden Theatre and ran for 522 performances after 12 previews. The plot centers on a reunion, in a crumbling Broadway theatre scheduled for demolition, of performers in Weismann's Follies (a musical revue, based on the Ziegfeld Follies, which played in that theatre between the world wars). ""Follies"" focuses on two couples: Buddy and Sally Durant Plummer, and Benjamin and Phyllis Rogers Stone. The show enjoyed two"
"The musical was then nominated for 13 Tony Awards, including the Tony Award for Best Musical, and won six. It was later adapted into a motion picture from DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures in 2006. The film starred Jamie Foxx, Beyoncé, Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Hudson, Danny Glover, Anika Noni Rose, and Keith Robinson. Act I: 1960s In 1962, The Dreamettes, a hopeful black girl group from Chicago, enter the famous Amateur Night talent competition at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York (""I'm Lookin' for Something"", ""Goin' Downtown"", ""Takin' the Long Way Home""). The group is composed of full-figured lead singer"
"November 2, 1961 at the Broadway Theatre, where it ran for 92 performances. The cast included Roderick Cook, Alfred Drake, Larry Fuller, Christopher Hewett, Joan Weldon, and Lee Venora. Drake was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, and the show was nominated for Best Conductor and Musical Director. An original cast recording was released by Columbia Records. This album is one of the most valuable original cast albums because of its scarcity. Kean (musical) Kean is a musical with a book by Peter Stone and music and lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest. Using"
"next two decades overpowering even the hapless third Senators franchise in 1961–1971. The Senators were also the butt of many nationwide jokes during the 1950s, with the debut and running of a Broadway musical play in 1955 in New York City called """"Damn Yankees"""" (based on an earlier best-selling novel and later movie in 1958), which followed a hapless elderly D.C. fan being given a ""Faustian"" or ""devil's bargain,"" selling his soul to transform the team by becoming a young powerful new Senators player (played in the movie version by heart-throb leading-man actor Tab Hunter) and lead the lowly team"
"Musical for ""In the Heights"" (2008), ""Avenue Q"" (2004), and ""Rent"" (1996). Other producing credits include ""Motown the Musical"" (Broadway and tour), ""The Drowsy Chaperone"" (five 2006 Tony Awards), Baz Luhrmann's ""La Bohème"" (two 2002 Tony Awards), the hit revival of ""West Side Story"" (2009), ""Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo"" (2011), and ""[title of show]"" (2008). McCollum was co-producer of the musical ""Rent"" in 1996, winner of that year's Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Book, Best Score and Best Featured Actor. It also won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, making it only the fifth musical to ever win"
"of Fame"" directly across from Grauman's Chinese Theater. Their numerous other Disney and Non-Disney top box office film credits include ""The Jungle Book"" (1967), ""The Aristocats"" (1970), ""The Parent Trap"" (1961), ""The Parent Trap"" (1998), ""Charlotte's Web"" (1973), ""The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh"" (1977), ""Snoopy, Come Home"" (1972), ""Bedknobs and Broomsticks"" (1971) and """" (1992). Outside the motion picture realm, their Tony-nominated ""Over Here!"" (1974) was the biggest-grossing original Broadway Musical of that year. The Sherman Brothers have also written numerous top-selling songs, including ""You're Sixteen"", which holds the distinction of reaching Billboard's Top Ten twice; first with"
"who illegally comes to America in hopes of marrying a wealthy young Chinese-American man, who is already in love with a Chinatown nightclub dancer. The young man's parents are traditional Chinese and want him to marry the new Chinese immigrant, but he is hesitant until he falls in love with her. Though this musical did not achieve the popularity of the team's five most famous musicals, it was nevertheless a success, and broke new ground by using a mostly Asian cast. The 1961 film adaptation was a lavish, but much criticized, Ross Hunter production released by Universal Studios. A Broadway"
"18th Golden Globe Awards The 18th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1960 films, were held on March 16, 1961. ""' Burt Lancaster – ""Elmer Gantry"" ""' Jack Lemmon – ""The Apartment"" ""' Greer Garson – ""Sunrise at Campobello"" ""' Shirley MacLaine – ""The Apartment"" ""' Jack Cardiff – ""Sons and Lovers"" ""' ""The Apartment"" ""' ""Spartacus"" ""' ""Song Without End"" Dimitri Tiomkin – The Alamo ""' Sal Mineo – ""Exodus"" ""' Janet Leigh – ""Psycho"" Hand in Hand Michael Callan Mark Damon Brett Halsey Ina Balin Nancy Kwan Hayley Mills Tony Curtis Rock Hudson Gina Lollobrigida"
"(1951) with Jane Powell and Peter Lawford proved to be very successful, but ""The Belle of New York"" (1952) with Vera-Ellen was a critical and box-office disaster. ""The Band Wagon"" (1953), which is considered to be one of the finest musicals ever made, received rave reviews from critics and drew huge crowds. But because of its excessive cost, it failed to make a profit on its first release. Soon after, Astaire, along with all the other remaining stars at M-G-M, was let go from his contract because of the advent of television and the downsizing of film production. In 1954,"