"songs from the show sung by Salome Bey. In 1977 Ragni and Rado collaborated with Steve Margoshes on a new show called ""Jack Sound and His Dog Star Blowing His Final Trumpet on the Day of Doom"", produced off-Broadway by the Ensemble Studio Theatre. It played a short run alongside an ill-fated Broadway revival of ""Hair"" that ran for forty-three performances and starred Ragni and Rado as the bogus cops who bust the show. In the 1970s Ragni, Rado, MacDermot, and Margoshes collaborated on a new musical called ""Sun"", also called ""YMCA"", which ultimately was not produced. It was a"
"the musical was based on the film adaptation (by screenwriter Arnold Schulman) of the play ""A Hole in the Head"". Although the musical did not win any Tony Awards, actor Scott Jacoby was nominated for Best Featured Actor in a Musical, and Robert Randolph was nominated for Best Scenic Design. Golden Rainbow (musical) Golden Rainbow was the title of a Broadway musical that opened in 1968. It starred Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé for its entire run until it closed in early 1969. The previews for ""Golden Rainbow"" began at the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia on November 28, 1967, moving"
"Golden Rainbow (musical) Golden Rainbow was the title of a Broadway musical that opened in 1968. It starred Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé for its entire run until it closed in early 1969. The previews for ""Golden Rainbow"" began at the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia on November 28, 1967, moving to its new location in New York City at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway on December 27, 1967. The musical officially opened on February 4, 1968, at the Shubert, where it played until November 17, 1968. On November 19, 1968, its run resumed at the George Abbott Theatre on Broadway,"
"by a sheriff, who demands: ""Where you going with that elephant?"" Caught red-handed, Durante blithely replies, ""What elephant?"" Jumbo (musical) Jumbo is a musical produced by Billy Rose, with music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart and book by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. The musical opened on Broadway at the Hippodrome Theatre on November 16, 1935 and closed on April 18, 1936 after 233 performances. Directed by John Murray Anderson and George Abbott it starred Jimmy Durante, Donald Novis, Gloria Grafton, and a number of circus specialty acts. ""Jumbo"" tells the story of a financially strapped circus."
"late 1964. The main characters were autobiographical, with Rado's Claude being a pensive romantic and Ragni's Berger an extrovert. Their close relationship, including its volatility, was reflected in the musical. Rado explained, ""We were great friends. It was a passionate kind of relationship that we directed into creativity, into writing, into creating this piece. We put the drama between us on stage."" Rado described the inspiration for ""Hair"" as ""a combination of some characters we met in the streets, people we knew and our own imaginations. We knew this group of kids in the East Village who were dropping out"
"(^) are not consistently included in later versions of the musical."" ""**This song was originally scripted to be sung by Ben almost immediately after ""If We Never Meet Again"" (and still remains so in some publications), however it was changed for the original Broadway production. Rags (musical) Rags is a musical with a book by Joseph Stein, lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, and music by Charles Strouse. The Broadway production opened on August 21, 1986 at the Mark Hellinger Theatre with little advance sale and to mostly indifferent reviews, and it closed after only four performances (and 18 previews). Directed by"
"The Vamp The Vamp is a musical comedy with music by James Mundy; lyrics by John La Touche; and a musical book by La Touche and Sam Locke which is based on a story by La Touche. The musical opened on Broadway on November 10, 1955 at the Winter Garden Theatre where it ran for a total of 60 performances until it closed on December 31, 1955. The production was directed by David Alexander, choreographed by Robert Alton, used set and costume designs by Raoul Pène Du Bois, and conducted by musical director Milton Rosenstock. The cast was led by"
"Jumbo (musical) Jumbo is a musical produced by Billy Rose, with music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart and book by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. The musical opened on Broadway at the Hippodrome Theatre on November 16, 1935 and closed on April 18, 1936 after 233 performances. Directed by John Murray Anderson and George Abbott it starred Jimmy Durante, Donald Novis, Gloria Grafton, and a number of circus specialty acts. ""Jumbo"" tells the story of a financially strapped circus. At the end of each performance, Durante lay down on the stage and permitted a live elephant to"
"Rags (musical) Rags is a musical with a book by Joseph Stein, lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, and music by Charles Strouse. The Broadway production opened on August 21, 1986 at the Mark Hellinger Theatre with little advance sale and to mostly indifferent reviews, and it closed after only four performances (and 18 previews). Directed by Gene Saks and choreographed by Ron Field, the cast included Teresa Stratas as Rebecca Hershkowitz, Larry Kert as Nathan Hershkowitz, Lonny Price as Ben, Judy Kuhn as Bella Cohen, Dick Latessa as Avram Cohen, Marcia Lewis as Rachel Halpern, and Terrence Mann as Saul, a"
"moments in a brash, fast-moving musical. ... Not all the songs have wit and melodic grace... [the] book is smart and timely. ... Julie Harris moves Georgina as well as herself into a musical with commanding confidence."" Skyscraper (musical) Skyscraper is a musical that ran on Broadway in 1965 and 1966. The book was written by Peter Stone, and the music by Jimmy Van Heusen with lyrics by Sammy Cahn. Based on the 1945 Elmer Rice play ""Dream Girl"", the Broadway production starred Julie Harris in her first musical. ""Skyscraper"" opened on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 13,"
"the soundtrack underscore. The film starred Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Charles Boyer, and Horst Buchholz. Fanny (musical) Fanny is a musical with a book by S. N. Behrman and Joshua Logan and music and lyrics by Harold Rome. A tale of love, secrets, and passion set in and around the old French port of Marseille, it is based on Marcel Pagnol's trilogy of plays entitled ""Marius"", ""Fanny"" and ""César"". The musical premiered on Broadway in 1954 and ran for 888 performances, and later was staged in the West End. Fanny is a young woman whose childhood love, Marius, leaves her"
"was co-directed by Michael Wearing and Julie Arenal, who also choreographed. After his spectacular success with the musical ""Hair"", expectations for MacDermot's next work, ""Isabel's a Jezebel"", were high. The musical underwent several last minute cast changes, including Hayman's joining the show just before opening night. ""The New York Times"" praised the score but called the book ""irretrievably inert."" A cast album was released in 1972 (Item 377673) Kilmarnock. Isabel's a Jezebel Isabel's a Jezebel is a British musical with music by Galt MacDermot and book and lyrics by William Dumaresq, based loosely on one of the Grimm's Fairy Tales,"
"The Red Shoes (musical) The Red Shoes is a musical with a book by Marsha Norman, lyrics by Norman and Bob Merrill (credited as Paul Stryker) and music by Jule Styne. Based on Powell and Pressburger's film, it tells the tale of a young ballerina who performs in an adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen story. Prior to the Broadway opening, the producer, Martin Starger, fired the original director, the male lead, featured performers, and the production manager. This resulted in a delay of the opening from December 2 to December 16. Starger, Styne and the eventual director, Stanley Donen,"
"Gerome Ragni Gerome Ragni (born Jerome Bernard Ragni; September 11, 1935 – July 10, 1991) was an American actor, singer and songwriter, best known as co-writer of the 1960s musical """". Ragni was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, one of ten children in a low-income Italian-American family. He attended Georgetown University and The Catholic University of America. At Catholic, he discovered an interest in theater, and began studying acting with Philip Burton. Ragni made his acting debut in Washington, D.C. in 1954, playing Father Corr in ""Shadow and Substance"". He continued to act whenever he could find work. In 1963, he"
"Joseph Papp Joseph Papp (born Joseph Papirofsky; June 22, 1921 – October 31, 1991) was an American theatrical producer and director. He established The Public Theater in what had been the Astor Library Building in lower Manhattan. There, Papp created a year-round producing home to focus on new plays and musicals. Among numerous examples of these were the works of David Rabe, Ntozake Shange's ""For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf"", Charles Gordone's ""No Place to Be Somebody"" (the first off-Broadway play to win the Pulitzer Prize), and Papp's production of Michael Bennett's Pulitzer Prize–winning"
"the musical in April 2004. A staged concert production was presented in the Encores! series of Great American Musicals in Concert at the New York City Center May 9–13, 2012 with Megan Hilty as Lorelei Lee and Rachel York as Dorothy, directed by John Rando and choreographed by Randy Skinner. A 1953 film adaptation, released by 20th century Fox, was directed by Howard Hawks and starred Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (musical) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a musical with a book by Joseph Fields and Anita Loos, lyrics by Leo Robin, and music by Jule Styne, based"
"Theodore & Co Theodore & Co is an English musical comedy in two acts with a book by H. M. Harwood and George Grossmith Jr. (based on the French comedy ""Théodore et Cie"" by Paul Armont and Nicolas Nancey), with music by Ivor Novello and Jerome Kern and lyrics by Adrian Ross and Clifford Grey. It was produced by Grossmith and Edward Laurillard, opening at the Gaiety Theatre on 19 September 1916 and running for 503 performances. It starred Grossmith, Fred Leslie and Leslie Henson. ""Theodore & Co"" opened during World War I in the same year as two other"
"Pacific"" (1963), ""The King and I"" (1964), ""Camelot"" (1965) and ""West Side Story"" (1966). ""The Mikado"", Jean Carlo Menotti's ""Old Maid and the Thief"" with Sullivan and Burnand's ""Cox and Box"", Gilbert and Sullivan's ""The Gondoliers"", ""Brigadoon"", ""Showboat"" (1961 - Trinity Theatre, Georgetown) ""Finians's Rainbow"" (1962 - Trinity) ""South Pacific"" (twice, first in 1963, Trinity), ""The King and I"" (George Washington University Lisner Auditorium 1964), ""Camelot"" (1965 - Lisner) West Side Story (1966 Western High School), Carousel, ""Kiss Me Kate"", ""Paint Your Wagon"" (scheduled to open the night JFK was assassinated), ""The Fantasticks"", ""Guys and Dolls"", ""New Moon"", ""Little Mary"
"choreography, obviously, became most unfetered."" The Red Shoes (musical) The Red Shoes is a musical with a book by Marsha Norman, lyrics by Norman and Bob Merrill (credited as Paul Stryker) and music by Jule Styne. Based on Powell and Pressburger's film, it tells the tale of a young ballerina who performs in an adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen story. Prior to the Broadway opening, the producer, Martin Starger, fired the original director, the male lead, featured performers, and the production manager. This resulted in a delay of the opening from December 2 to December 16. Starger, Styne and"
"Songbook (musical) Songbook (New York title The Moony Shapiro Songbook) is a musical with music by Monty Norman and book by Monty Norman and Julian More. It premiered at the Gielgud Theatre (then called ""Globe Theatre""), in London on 25 July 1979 and ran for 208 performances.Directed by Jonathan Lynn with musical staging by Gillian Lynne it won the Olivier Award for the Best New Musical in 1979. The musical opened on Broadway at the Morosco Theatre on 3 May 1981 and closed after the 1 performance and 15 previews. Helmed again by Jonathan Lynn with musical staging by George"
"cast are joined on stage by an ensemble and members of a dance school (Ellie Bailey, Rachael Hackett, Alice Mee and Autumn Wade). 1966 - Maid of the Mountains (Musical) 1967 - The Merry Widow (Musical) 1968 - Summer Song (Musical) 1969 - Quaker Girl (Musical) 1970 - Magyar Melody (Musical) 1971 - Aladdin (Pantomime) 1971 - Finians Rainbow (Musical) 1973 - The Sound of Music (Musical) 1974 - Oaklahoma (Musical) 1975 - Jack and the Beanstalk (Pantomime) 1975 - A Funny Thing (Musical) 1976 - Jorrocks (Musical) 1977 - Mother Goose (Pantomime) 1977 - Chrysanthemum (Musical) 1978 - Humpty"
"the Public Theatre in 1988 with Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson. It moved to Broadway, pared to two acts, in the spring of 1989 and ran for 45 performances. A musical version with the same name premiered in 1964. It had music by Albert Hague, lyrics by Marty Brill and a book by Kraft. It opened in previews on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on March 21, 1964. After 30 preview performances, the musical officially opened on April 17, 1964. It received less than stellar reviews and closed after three performances on April 18. The show starred sopranos Monte"
"began running across the U.S. in October 2017. It features new scenic design, costumes & choreography. The Wizard of Oz (1987 musical) The Wizard of Oz is a musical with a book by John Kane, music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg. It has additional background music by Herbert Stothart. It is based on the novel ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"" by L. Frank Baum and the 1939 film version written by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf. Successful musicals based on the Baum novel were created in 1902 (for Broadway) and 1945 (for St. Louis"
"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"
"and community activist Rev. Jim Shiflett to establish the Body Politic Theatre, one of the first professional off-Loop theaters in Chicago. Russo's other works for the theater include the operas ""John Hooton"" (1962), ""The Island"" (1963), ""Land of Milk and Honey"" (1964), ""Antigone"" (1967), ""The Shepherds' Christmas"", ""The Pay-Off"" (1983–84), ""The Sacrifice,"" and ""Dubrovsky"" (1988), as well as a double bill of operas inspired by commedia dell'arte, ""Isabella's Fortune"" and ""Pedrolino's Revenge"" (performed off-Broadway in 1974), and a musical fairy tale for children, ""The Golden Bird"", for singers, narrator, dancers, and symphony orchestra (premiered in 1984 under the auspices of"
"full version of ""The One on the Left"" (of which only a fraction survives in the final show) performed by Colley, Ellis and Hammarlund. A cast recording was released for the Broadway revival in fall 2017 by Warner Music Group. Sunday in the Park with George Sunday in the Park with George is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. It was inspired by the French pointillist painter Georges Seurat's painting ""A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte"". The plot revolves around George, a fictionalized version of Seurat, who immerses"
"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"
"Jackpot (musical) Jackpot is an American musical with music by Vernon Duke, lyrics by Howard Dietz, and a musical book by Guy Bolton, Sidney Sheldon, and Ben Roberts. The musical premiered on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre on January 13, 1944. It closed on March 11, 1944 after a total of 69 performances. Directed by Roy Hargrave, the production starred Nanette Fabray as Sally Madison, Betty Garrett as Sgt. Maguire, Allan Jones as Hank Trimble, and, in the small role of Edna, future novelist Jacqueline Susann (""Valley of the Dolls""). Choreographer Flower Hujer danced in the production. A wartime musical"
"Jerico-Jim Crow Jerico-Jim Crow is a 1964 musical, with a book written by Langston Hughes and William Hairston. It was a pioneering work in the urban contemporary gospel musical style, based on the themes of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. According to Hughes scholar and biographer Arnold Rampersad, Hughes ""virtually pioneered"" the black gospel musical, first with ""Black Nativity"" (1961) and then with ""Jericho-Jim Crow"". ""Jerico-Jim Crow"" premiered on Sunday, January 5, 1964, at the Sanctuary Theatre, New York City. It was co-directed by Alvin Ailey and William Hairston and conducted by Hugh Porter, with Marion Joseph"
"Legs Diamond (musical) Legs Diamond is a musical with a book by Harvey Fierstein and Charles Suppon based on the Warner Brothers film ""The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond"" (1960), with a screenplay by Joseph Landon. The music and lyrics are by Peter Allen. ""The Almost Totally Fictitious Musical History of Legs Diamond"" follows the travails of its title character, a Depression-era mobster who wants to break into show business. The musical opened on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on December 26, 1988 and closed on February 19, 1989 after 64 performances and 72 previews (far more than"
"pressures of his parents (and conservative America) to serve in Vietnam, compromising his pacifist principles and risking his life. After an off-Broadway debut on October 17, 1967, at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and a subsequent run at the Cheetah nightclub from December 1967 through January 1968, the show opened on Broadway in April 1968 and ran for 1,750 performances. Simultaneous productions in cities across the United States and Europe followed shortly thereafter, including a successful London production that ran for 1,997 performances. Since then, numerous productions have been staged around the world, spawning dozens of recordings of the musical, including"
"Anniversary of the show's Broadway opening. The concert was at Times Square's Nokia Theatre and featured Carolee Carmello, Gregg Edelman, Eden Espinosa, Lainie Kazan and Michael Rupert. The Goodspeed Opera House presented an extensive revisal of the show in 2017 which started previews on October 6, opened on October 25, and closed on December 10. The musical has a new book by David Thompson, several new songs by Schwartz and Strouse, and starred Samantha Massell as Rebecca Hershkowitz. Entirely reimagined, this new ""Rags"" has a new plot and new characters and is directed by Rob Ruggiero. The broadwayworld.com reviewer wrote:"
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (musical) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a musical with a book by Joseph Fields and Anita Loos, lyrics by Leo Robin, and music by Jule Styne, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Loos. The story involves an American woman's voyage to Paris to perform in a nightclub. The musical opened on Broadway in 1949 (running for 740 performances and introducing Carol Channing), a London production was mounted in 1962, and there was a Broadway revival in 1995. An adaptation called ""Lorelei"" (also starring Carol Channing) played on Broadway in 1974. It was made into"