"of those age 65 or over. Meredith Willson's 1957 Broadway musical ""The Music Man"" featured the song ""Gary, Indiana"", in which lead character (and con man) Professor Harold Hill wistfully recalls his purported hometown, then prosperous. Hill claims to be an alumnus of ""Gary Conservatory of Music, Class of '05,"" but this is later revealed to be another of his lies. The City of Gary was not founded until 1906. Willson's musical, set in 1912, was adapted both as a film of the same name released in 1962, and as a television film, produced in 2003. The 1996 urban movie"
"Gary, Indiana Gary is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States, from downtown Chicago, Illinois. Gary is adjacent to the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and borders southern Lake Michigan. Gary was named after lawyer Elbert Henry Gary, who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation. The city is known for its large steel mills, and as the birthplace of the Jackson 5 music group. The population of Gary was 80,294 at the 2010 census, making it the ninth-largest city in the state of Indiana. It was a prosperous city from the 1920s through the mid-1960s due"
"Guyer Opera House Guyer Opera House, also known as Lewisville Public Hall, is a historic theater and commercial building located at Lewisville, Henry County, Indiana. It was built in 1902, and is a 2 1/2-story, brick building on a limestone foundation and a gable roof. The front facade features a large parapet and cast iron storefronts. The theater space is located on the second floor; it closed in 1942. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. Built in 1901 and producing community theater in Henry County, Indiana since 1976, the Guyer Opera House is the"
"of the Spectacle and mass hypnosis; ""Unfinished Story"" (2004–2005), which records readings by and conversations between Indiana and photographer Lynn Davis; and ""Young Ginger"" (2014). Gary Indiana Gary Indiana (born 1950 as Gary Hoisington in Derry, New Hampshire) is an American writer, filmmaker and visual artist. Indiana has written, directed and acted in a dozen plays, mostly during the early 1980s. His theatrical collaborators drew from a distinctly avant-garde group of actors, artists, composers and writers, including Geoffrey Carey, George-Therese Dickenson, Allen Frame, Evan Lurie, Larry Mitchell, Cookie Mueller, Alice Neel, Sharon Niesp, Victoria Pedersen, Bill Rice, co-founder of ""BOMB"""
"Gary Indiana Gary Indiana (born 1950 as Gary Hoisington in Derry, New Hampshire) is an American writer, filmmaker and visual artist. Indiana has written, directed and acted in a dozen plays, mostly during the early 1980s. His theatrical collaborators drew from a distinctly avant-garde group of actors, artists, composers and writers, including Geoffrey Carey, George-Therese Dickenson, Allen Frame, Evan Lurie, Larry Mitchell, Cookie Mueller, Alice Neel, Sharon Niesp, Victoria Pedersen, Bill Rice, co-founder of ""BOMB"" magazine Betsy Sussler and Warhol superstars Viva, Taylor Mead and Jackie Curtis. Indiana has said he wanted to call this troupe the ""Theater of the"
"Palace Theater (Gary, Indiana) The Palace Theater is a 1925 movie theater, now closed, located at 791 Broadway in Gary, Indiana, in the city's Emerson neighborhood. It was designed by the prominent movie palace architect John Eberson. The Palace Theater was built by Maximillian Dubois' construction company ""Max and Sons"", who also built the Marquette Park Pavilion in Gary. Construction began in 1924 and the theater opened a year later featuring live stage shows, vaudeville acts, and motion pictures. From the time it opened, the theater was one of the grandest venues in the town, but when the US Steel"
"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."
"small town Indiana, involves a high school student who is banned from her prom because she wants to bring her girlfriend. A group of Broadway actors hears about the situation and travels to the town to help the student. The musical premiered at the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, Georgia, on August 18, 2016 in previews. The show received positive reviews. Frank Rizzo, in his ""Variety"" review, wrote that it is ""a loopy, loving and joyous musical."" ""The Prom"" is expected to open on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre on November 15, 2018, with previews starting on October 23, 2018. As composer:"
"out the theatre and posted a box office performance that, if it continued for a whole week of performances, would have seen the show top $1 million. Barlow has also co-written a musical alongside hometown friend Tim Firth, called ""The Girls"" (later retitled in 2017 as ""Calendar Girls The Musical""), which opened at the Phoenix Theatre, London in January 2017. In the summer of 2016, Gary launched his own talent show ""Let It Shine"", in the search for 5 males to star in an upcoming nationwide musical using the music of Take That. The musical will tour all over the"
"Sunshine"", where ""three"" counterpoint songs are combined: ""Playing Croquet,"" ""Swinging"" and ""How Do You Do?."" ""Goodnight, My Someone"" is the same tune, in waltz time, as the march-tempo ""Seventy-six Trombones"". In the 1962 movie, the 1980 and 2000 revivals, and some amateur and regional productions, ""Gary, Indiana"" is sung in Act I by Harold and Mrs. Paroo (between ""Marian the Librarian"" and ""My White Knight""), with Winthrop singing a reprise of it in Act II. The ""Music Man"" is set in the fictional town of River City, Iowa, in 1912. The town is based in large part on Willson's birthplace,"
"Mallory Newbrough as Kate, Eric O'Keefe as Mike, Arrow ZurSchmiede as Steve, Sahid Pabon as Tank, Randall Swinton as Arvin, and Casey Sacco as Candi. Musically directed by Michael Ursua, the show ran for two months beginning in January 2018 to sold out audiences. The musical is set in Heartsville, U.S.A, once upon a time. The exact time period is not specified, but the play takes place across a school year, beginning on the first day and ending at prom. This is an alternate, fairy tale America, where the majority of the world is homosexual, with heterosexuals subject to heterophobia."
"country music in the 1920s. Gary, Indiana was home of Vee-Jay Records, known for blues, jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll in the 1950s and early 1960s. Indiana-born musicians and composers include John Mellencamp, Michael Jackson (also of Gary's The Jackson 5), Janet Jackson, Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds, John Hiatt, Steve Wariner, Hoosier Hot Shots, Harry Von Tilzer, Rich Mullins, Shirley Graham Du Bois, Hazel Harrison, May Aufderheide, Cecil Duane Crabb, Julia Lee Niebergall, Kris Roe, The Four Freshmen, The Ink Spots, The Spaniels, the Bill Gaither Trio, John Michael Talbot, Albert Von Tilzer, Cole Porter (""Night and Day"","
"Eddie Hodges Samuel Hodges (born March 5, 1947) professionally known as Eddie Hodges, is an American former child actor and recording artist who left show business as an adult. Hodges was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and traveled to New York City with his family in 1952. This began a long career in show business for Hodges in films, on stage and popular recordings. Hodges made his professional acting debut on stage in Meredith Willson's 1957 Broadway musical ""The Music Man"", in which he originated the character of Winthrop Paroo and introduced the song ""Gary, Indiana"", with Robert Preston and Pert"
"was a bar joke, the more Buck thought about it the more the idea seemed worthy, he recruited Dovalina to write the book, Faye granted the two an extended interview. One of the compelling facets of her life to the two gay men ""was how from her conservative background, she came around to being a gay-friendly person"" and even had a sizable gay following. The musical is a fantasy flashback retelling of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker's life story. Written after a lengthy interview granted to the authors by Tammy Faye, the show had its world premiere at the 2006 Cincinnati"
"to clear Johnny's name and finds out that it was Anstey that framed Jones. Jones tells his friends who are returning to America, ""Give My Regards to Broadway,"" but he stays in London to try to regain his reputation. Jones returns to America with his name cleared, eager to propose marriage to Goldie, but he finds that Anstey has kidnapped her. He and his detective search for her in San Francisco's Chinatown, eventually finding her. The musical was first tried out at the Parsons Theatre in Hartford, Connecticut in October 1904 and then opened on Broadway at the Liberty Theatre"
"Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra Originally called the Gary Symphony, the Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra (NISO) performed their first show on December 7, 1941 opening with the Star Spangled Banner. The Northwest Indiana Symphony is a non-profit organization that currently produces an eight concert season running from September through May and consists of four classical and four pops concerts. In addition, the symphony also introduced the new South Shore Summer Music Festival in 2007 featuring free summer concerts in nine Northwest Indiana communities from June – September. The Symphony conducts a number of educational programs for children from Northwest Indiana and"
"their own music that had previously been recorded by other artists, including ""Change the World"". Around 2010, Wayne and his brother Karey began working on the musical ""Something Rotten!"". In 2015, they were nominated for a Tony Award for Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre (along with many other awards), while Karey was also nominated for a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical with British author John O'Farrell. Wayne Kirkpatrick Wayne Kirkpatrick (born c. 1961) is an American songwriter and musician born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana but now lives in Nashville, Tennessee. He graduated"
"of the Palace have established a page on Facebook to generate support for restoration of the theater. The Palace Theater was used as an example for what could happen to a Chicago building in 30 years without humans providing maintenance and upkeep on (Season 1, Episode 2). Palace Theater (Gary, Indiana) The Palace Theater is a 1925 movie theater, now closed, located at 791 Broadway in Gary, Indiana, in the city's Emerson neighborhood. It was designed by the prominent movie palace architect John Eberson. The Palace Theater was built by Maximillian Dubois' construction company ""Max and Sons"", who also built"
"Jackson Street. They had married on November 5, 1949. Their entertainer children later recorded a song entitled ""2300 Jackson Street"" (1989). The Jackson children include: Gary, Indiana Gary is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States, from downtown Chicago, Illinois. Gary is adjacent to the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and borders southern Lake Michigan. Gary was named after lawyer Elbert Henry Gary, who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation. The city is known for its large steel mills, and as the birthplace of the Jackson 5 music group. The population of Gary was 80,294 at"
"original cast was ""Wicked"" and ""Jersey Boys"" star Sebastian Arcelus, who was joined by Broadway alums Amy Spanger and Beth Leavel. Presented by ""NETworks"", a mini-tour of the musical played select cities across North America for the 2012 holiday season. Stops include Providence, RI (Nov. 4-10), Appleton, WI (Nov. 13-18), Tampa, FL (Nov. 20-25), Fort Myers, FL (Nov. 27-Dec. 2) and St. Paul, MN (Dec. 5-30). Two separate tours, running simultaneously, began in 2013, and again 2014, 2015, and 2016. In 2017 there will again be two separate tours, running from November to the end of December. Following the success"
"Gary Griffin Gary Griffin (born 1959/1960) is an American theater director. Griffin grew up in Rockford, Illinois, where he graduated from East High School in 1978. He is the associate artistic director of Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in 1982, where he performed in several musicals and directed ""Hello Dolly"" for their Summer Theatre program. He did graduate work at Illinois State University, and then moved to Chicago, where he began his directing career. Griffin made his Broadway directing debut with the musical ""The Color Purple"" in 2005. He directed the revival of ""The"
"the world premiere musical ""Captive Heart: The Frances Slocum Story"" (1999), by Jeff Hooper (book) and Bob Lucas (music and lyrics). This musical is based on the story of Maconaquah, which is part of the standard history curriculum in Indiana, and an Indiana premiere of a musical with a book by Wentworth, ""Enter the Guardsman"", based on the Ferenc Molnár play, ""The Guardsman"", with music by Craig Bohmler and lyrics by Marion Adler. The IRT has done more recent productions of ""Crowns"" (Regina Taylor), ""The Fantasticks"" (Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones), and Stephen Sondheim's ""A Little Night Music"" starring Sylvia"
"won a Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album. Set in the recent past, the musical opens on a group of suburban youths living unhappily in ""Jingletown, USA"". Fed up with the state of the union, the company explodes in frustration during the song (""American Idiot""). One of the youths, Johnny begins to tell his story in the five song medley (""Jesus of Suburbia""), he talks about coming from a broken home and seeming to be lost in the world. He soon goes to commiserate with his friend Will, and a third friend, Tunny, joins the two at Will's house."
"musical began performances at the Signature Theatre, Arlington, Virginia on October 4, 2016. Directed by Christopher Ashley, with choreography by Sergio Trujillo, the cast features Emma Hunton (as the daughter Ellie), Jason Gotay and Heidi Blickenstaff (as the mother Katherine). Ashley explained that the musical is based on the original Rodgers book as well as the films. The musical is set in the present time in Chicago. The musical began performances at the La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego, on January 31, 2017, and ran to March 12. The cast features Emma Hunton and Heidi Blickenstaff. This was followed by runs"
"Glory Days (musical) Glory Days is a musical with music and lyrics by Nick Blaemire and a book by James Gardiner about four high school friends reuniting a year after graduation. The musical opened at the Signature Theatre in 2008 and was then produced on Broadway in 2008 but closed after one regular performance. The musical premiered at the Signature Theatre, a professional regional theatre in Arlington, Virginia, from January 15 through February 17, 2008, where it was directed by Eric D. Schaeffer, the Artistic Director of the theatre, with musical staging by assistant director Matthew Gardiner. Musical accompaniment consisted"
"run closed earlier than expected, on July 31, 2016. After speculation that a London production would be staged in the Dominion Theatre, which will be refurbished after ""We Will Rock You"" closes, an eventual West End production was announced in May 2015 for the Shaftesbury Theatre, which began on February 11, 2016 and will run until 20 April 2019. The West End production is directed by Charles Randolph-Wright, who also directed this musical on Broadway and its US tour. The cast stars Cedric Neal (as Berry Gordy), Lucy St. Louis (as Diana Ross), Sifiso Mazibuko (as Marvin Gaye), and Obioma"
"Georgy (musical) Georgy is a musical with a book by Tom Mankiewicz, lyrics by Carole Bayer, and music by George Fischoff. Based on the Margaret Forster novel ""Georgy Girl"" and the subsequent 1966 film adaptation, it tells the story of awkward, overweight, dowdy music teacher Georgy; her beautiful, self-centered roommate Meredith; Meredith's ne'er-do-well boyfriend Jos; and widower James Leamington, Georgy's father's wealthy employer, who has a lustful eye on the full-figured girl. When Meredith becomes pregnant, an overjoyed Georgy prepares for the blessed event, and soon after finds herself the baby's caregiver when the irresponsible Meredith disappears with a new"
"days after he arrived that he is a fraud. (Harold earlier claimed to have graduated from the Gary Conservatory in 1905, but Gary, Indiana, was not founded until 1906.) Because she loves him, she gives him the incriminating page out of the ""Indiana State Educational Journal"". She leaves, promising to see him later at the Sociable. With his schemes for the boys' band and Marian proceeding even better than planned, Harold confidently sings ""Seventy-Six Trombones"". As he overhears Marian singing ""Goodnight My Someone"", Harold suddenly realizes that he is in love with Marian; he and Marian sing a snatch of"
"on February 2, 2010. Finian's Rainbow Finian's Rainbow is a musical with a book by E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy, lyrics by Harburg, and music by Burton Lane, produced by Lee Sabinson. The original 1947 Broadway production ran for 725 performances, while a film version was released in 1968 and several revivals have followed. Finian moves to the southern United States (the fictional state of Missitucky is a combination of Mississippi and Kentucky) from Ireland with his daughter Sharon, to bury a stolen pot of gold near Fort Knox, in the mistaken belief that it will grow. Og, a leprechaun,"
"Source: MTI A ""Dear Edwina"" recording, starring Kerry Butler, Andréa Burns, Terrence Mann, Rebecca Luker and many other Broadway voices was released on November 11, 2008 by PS Classics. Dear Edwina Dear Edwina is a musical by Zina Goldrich (music) and Marcy Heisler (book and lyrics). A children's one-hour musical, it concerns a young girl who gives her neighborhood friends and family advice through singing in a musical show. It is set in the town of Paw Paw, Michigan (but also based on Deerfield, Illinois, where Marcy Heisler was born). A 'Junior' version for younger children cuts the songs ""Seamus"""
"Gary William Friedman Gary William Friedman is an American musical theatre, symphonic, film and television composer. His career began in the 1960s in New York City as a saxophonist in an improvisational ensemble and as a composer for experimental theater. Friedman's 1970 musical, ""The Me Nobody Knows"" opened Off-Broadway and won the Obie Award for Best Music of a Musical before moving to Broadway and earning five Tony Award nominations. Friedman has also composed scores for numerous American films and television series such as PBS's children's television series, ""The Electric Company"". His orchestral and operatic compositions have been commissioned by"
"to Broadway. The musical premiered at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Previews began on September 4, 2009 and the official opening was on September 15, 2009. After becoming the top-grossing show in the theatre's history, the producers extended the limited run twice to November 15, 2009. The cast included John Gallagher Jr. as Johnny, Matt Caplan as Tunny, Michael Esper as Will, Tony Vincent as St. Jimmy, Rebecca Naomi Jones as Whatsername, Mary Faber as Heather, and Christina Sajous as the Extraordinary Girl. The musical transferred to the St. James Theatre on Broadway, with previews beginning on March 24, 2010. It"
"relegating Aunt Cissy to a supporting role in 2003. An ""Encores!"" staged concert production at New York City Center in 2005 starred Emily Skinner as Cissy, Jason Danieley as Johnny and Sally Murphy as Katie. A cast recording of the original production is available on a compact disc released by Sony. The musical tells of the working-class Nolan family (Johnny, Katie and Francie) at the turn of the 20th century in Brooklyn, New York. The father, Johnny, is an optimistic but undependable singing waiter who spends his paycheck in the neighborhood saloon. His hard-working wife Katie is a disappointed realist"