"Dianne Wiest. Many actresses have also sung the song in the stage version of the musical including Martine McCutcheon, Laura Michelle Kelly, Amy Nuttall, Lisa O'Hare, and Lauren Ambrose. Peggy Lee did a Cha-cha-cha version on her 1960 album ""Latin ala Lee!"". Andy Williams covered the song on his 1964 album ""The Great Songs from My Fair Lady and Other Broadway Hits"". Shirley Bassey recorded and released this song on two 1965 albums, including ""Shirley Stops The Shows"" released in the UK, and 'Shirley Bassey Belts The Best' released in the USA. Petula Clark recorded a version for her 1968"
"I Can Get It for You Wholesale I Can Get It for You Wholesale is a musical, produced by David Merrick, music and lyrics by Harold Rome, and book by Jerome Weidman, based on his 1937 novel of the same title. It marked the Broadway debut of 19-year-old Barbra Streisand, who was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical. The story is set in the New York City Garment District in 1937, during the Great Depression, and the songs utilize traditional Jewish harmonies evocative of the setting and the period of the"
"performances at the ""Broadway Theatre"" on 41st Street in New York City from November 27, 1906 to June 29, 1907 and then went on tour in the US. It returned to Broadway for three more weeks in 1908. The musical was directed and choreographed by Julian P. Mitchell. Beside Held, it starred Henry Leoni, Truly Shattuck and Charles A. Bigelow; Gertrude Hoffman, the composer's wife, led the chorus dancers. Held's many onstage costume changes, especially in the song ""A Gown for Each Hour of the Day"", together with her dance with a cross-dressing Gertrude Hoffman and other slinky dancing by"
"the climax of the dance section to meld the two halves. The musical had its world premiere on March 26, 1982 at the Palace Theatre, where it ran for 781 performances, with direction by Tom Gutteridge Marti Webb performed the ""Song"" half; she subsequently was succeeded by Gemma Craven, Lulu, and Liz Robertson. Carol Nielsson, Webb's original understudy took over the role with two hour notice when Lulu damaged her voice after a foldback monitor failed during a performance. The ""Dance"" portion was choreographed by Anthony van Laast and featured Wayne Sleep and Jane Darling. The original recording of the"
"her audition piece, ""I Could Have Danced All Night"". In week four she sang ""Songbird"" by Christine McVie, which resulted in her being named the unofficial ""Maria of the night"". Andrew Lloyd Webber chose her to perform ""Truly Scrumptious"" with the children from the musical ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"". In the fifth week, when there were two live shows, she sang ""All That Jazz"" from the musical ""Chicago"" accompanied by six male dancers. Dillon successfully got through to the second live show of the evening but faced the second sing off with Aoife Mulholland. They sang ""Don't Cry for Me,"
"in a season that included ""Hair"", ""Promises, Promises"" and ""1776"". The last of these won the award. The original production ran for 305 performances, but a 1983 Broadway revival ran for 362 performances with a cast starring Anthony Quinn. The musical opened on Broadway on November 16, 1968, at the Imperial Theatre, where it ran for 305 performances and twelve previews. Directed by Harold Prince and choreographed by Ron Field, the cast included Herschel Bernardi, Maria Karnilova, Carmen Alvarez, John Cunningham, and Lorraine Serabian. Scenic design was by Boris Aronson, costume design was by Patricia Zipprodt, and lighting design was"
"""Starlight Express"", ""The Sound of Music"", ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"", ""Monty Python's Spamalot"", ""Beauty and the Beast"", ""West Side Story"", ""Jesus Christ Superstar"", ""Thoroughly Modern Millie"", ""The Rocky Horror Show"", ""Fame - The Musical"", ""Never Forget"", ""Priscilla Queen of the Desert - the Musical"", ""Cabaret"", ""Blood Brothers"", ""Saturday Night Fever"", ""Carousel"", ""Footloose - The Musical"", ""Grease"", ""Anything Goes"", ""Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake"", ""Our House"", ""Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story"", ""Carousel"", ""Tap Dogs"", ""Taboo"", ""Flashdance - The Musical"", ""Annie"", ""Annie Get Your Gun"", """", ""Dancing in the Streets"", ""Sister Act"", ""An Inspector Calls"", ""Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"", ""Rock of Ages"", ""Chicago"","
"All Shook Up (musical) All Shook Up is a 2004 American jukebox musical with Elvis Presley music and with a book by Joe DiPietro. The story is based on William Shakespeare's 1602 play ""Twelfth Night"". The musical had a developmental staging at the Goodspeed Musicals May 13-June 6, 2004, with most of the Broadway cast, except for Manley Pope in the lead role of Chad. Christopher Ashley directed, with choreography by Jody Moccia. The musical had a tryout in Chicago at the Cadillac Palace from December 19, 2004, through January 23, 2005. After the tryout, changes were made to the"
"Collins, John Pizzarelli, Mark Murphy, Cleo Laine, Maureen McGovern, Betty Buckley, Julia Migenes, Dianne Reeves, Myrra Malmberg, Madeline Eastman, and Barbra Streisand. Dawn Upshaw included ""Take Me to the World"" on her 1994 musical theatre album ""I Wish It So"". Barbra Streisand recorded the song ""Take Me to The World"" with Antonio Banderas for her 2016 album """". Evening Primrose (musical) Evening Primrose is a musical with a book by James Goldman and lyrics and music by Stephen Sondheim. It is based on a John Collier short story published in the 1951 collection ""Fancies and Goodnights"". Written originally for television,"
"starred in the piece with Leslie Henson. Grossmith told ""The New York Times"" that the musical was the first Gaiety Theatre Company production presented in New York before opening in London. ACT I - The Carraway's House at Maidenhead. ACT II - Scene 1 - Foyer of the Boxes, Royal Opera House. ACT II - Scene 2 - Covent Garden Market. ACT II - Scene 3 - Daisy's Flat in Mount Street. Addenda: To-Night's the Night (musical) To-Night's the Night is a musical comedy composed by Paul Rubens, with lyrics by Percy Greenbank and Rubens, and a book adapted by"
"""the greatest British musical I have ever seen"", and ""The Daily Mail"" thought it ""a theatrical masterpiece"". It won four Laurence Olivier Awards: Best New Musical, Best Actor (awarded jointly to James Lomas, George Maguire and Liam Mower, the boys who played Billy), Best Sound design and Best Choreographer. It also won the ""Evening Standard"" Theatre Award as well as the Critics Circle Award and the Theatregoers Choice Award, all for Best Musical. The original cast album was released on 10 January 2006. On 12 May 2006, the three original Billys appeared together in a performance of the musical to"
"""All Songs Considered."" In 2007, the band received another career boost when they played with the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall, for the Boston Pops' annual event Edgefest. The band provided the music for the 2009 Public Theater production of Shakespeare's ""Twelfth Night"" at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, featuring Anne Hathaway in the role of Viola. The band received a nomination for Outstanding Music in a Play for the 2009/2010 Drama Desk Awards. The band released the album Departure and Farewell in 2013. A short UK tour took place in October 2013, along with a session on Bob"
"portrayed by Broadway star Barbara Cook. Cook withdrew after three weeks of performances and was replaced when the show transferred to Broadway by Betty Buckley, who had appeared in the original film as Carrie's gym teacher. In the musical, she is portrayed as a much more complex and sympathetic character who genuinely loves and wants to ""save"" her daughter. Margaret even shows remorse after beating and locking Carrie in the prayer closet (cellar in the musical) after the shower incident. Her songs include ""Open Your Heart"", ""And Eve Was Weak"", ""Evening Prayers"", and ""I Remember How Those Boys Could Dance"""
"Glamorous Night Glamorous Night is a musical with a book and music by Ivor Novello and lyrics by Christopher Hassall, Novello's collaborator in six of the eight Novello musicals staged between 1935 and 1951. ""Glamorous Night"" was the first of several Novello musicals in the 1930s given an expensive, spectacular production, with several scene changes and a large cast, including many extras and dancers. Scenes included villas on a suburban street where a horse-drawn carriage was driven, the set of an operetta performed in the fictional country of Krasnia, shipboard skating and assassination scenes, the sinking of the ship, a"
"March 1979, where it ran for 168 performances. The musical opened on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre on May 1, 1980, transferred to the Royale Theatre on June 17, 1980, and closed on September 27, 1981, after 588 performances and nine previews. The musical was directed and co-choreographed by Tommy Tune, with Thommie Walsh as co-choreographer, with scenic design by Tony Walton, costume design by Michel Stuart and lighting design by Beverly Emmons. The cast included David Garrison, Priscilla Lopez, Peggy Hewett, Kate Draper, Albert Stephenson, and Stephen James. A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine"
"Out of You"", ""All Through the Night"", ""You're the Top"" (one of his best-known list songs), and ""Blow, Gabriel, Blow"", as well as the title number. The show ran for 420 performances in New York (a particularly long run in the 1930s) and 261 in London. Porter, despite his lessons in orchestration from d'Indy, did not orchestrate his musicals. ""Anything Goes"" was orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett and Hans Spialek. Now at the height of his success, Porter was able to enjoy the opening night of his musicals; he would make a grand entrance and sit in front, apparently relishing"
"An original cast recording was released on the RCA Victor label. In March 2007, ""The Chicago Sun-Times"" revealed that Flaherty and Ahrens were ""reworking the show with an eye on a new Broadway production."" Flaherty said that, ""In hindsight, I think our decision to paint the musical in somewhat darker colors was a mistake."" Among the revisions made to the show are two new songs, which were incorporated into a March 2007 repertory production of the show at the Bailiwick Repertory Theatre, Chicago. Musicals Tonight! in New York City presented a staged concert in April 2003. The York Theatre Company"
"contains ""beefier orchestration"". In her autobiography, ""I Could Have Sung All Night"", Marni Nixon spoke of singing the role of Maria and of her observations of some of the other singers whose voices were dubbed into the film. According to Nixon, very little of the singing on the soundtrack was contributed by the on-screen top-billing stars of the film; while George Chakiris provided vocals for the character of Bernardo, Nixon claims, even Russ Tamblyn's voice was dubbed over by Tucker Smith because Tamblyn had contractual obligations with MGM Records. (While the film was released by United Artists, the soundtrack album"
"Palaces"", ""The Apple Tree"", ""On the Town"", ""The Prisoner of Second Avenue"", ""Awake and Sing!"", ""Broadway Bound"" and ""Subways Are for Sleeping"", for which she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, beating out Barbra Streisand in ""I Can Get It for You Wholesale"". She has been nominated twice for the Drama Desk Award and received a second Tony Award nomination for ""Broadway Bound"". In June 1979, Newman and Arthur Laurents collaborated on the one-woman show ""The Madwoman of Central Park West"". Produced by Fritz Holt, it featured songs by Leonard Bernstein, Jerry Bock, John Kander,"
"musical was adapted by Ken Ludwig, and began previews at the Alley Theatre (Houston) on April 29, 2008, officially opening on May 18 and running through June 22. The production, directed by Alley artistic director Gregory Boyd with choreography by Randy Skinner, starred Harry Groener and Kerry O'Malley. The musical had many of the film's original songs, and also incorporated other Gershwin songs, such as ""They All Laughed"", ""Let's Call the Whole Thing Off"", and ""Love Walked In"". In 2014, a stage adaptation premiered in Paris at the Théâtre du Châtelet, with Robert Fairchild as Jerry Mulligan and Leanne Cope"
"the kingdom. Meanwhile, the gypsies side with the King to overcome a revolution. Back in England, Allen watches the king's wedding to Militza on his television. Replacements included Robert Andrews, Olive Gilbert, Elisabeth Welch and Muriel Barron. Glamorous Night Glamorous Night is a musical with a book and music by Ivor Novello and lyrics by Christopher Hassall, Novello's collaborator in six of the eight Novello musicals staged between 1935 and 1951. ""Glamorous Night"" was the first of several Novello musicals in the 1930s given an expensive, spectacular production, with several scene changes and a large cast, including many extras and"
"song, all the music in the play is heard in three extended dream sequences: the Glamour Dream, the Wedding Dream, and the Circus Dream which, to some extent, become three small operettas integrated into a straight play. The final song, ""My Ship"", functions as a leitmotif for Liza's insecurity: as each dream commences, a snippet of the tune is heard, as it is a haunting melody which Liza recognizes but cannot name, or sing with words, until her anxiety is resolved. The musical opened on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre (now the Neil Simon) on January 23, 1941 and closed"
"Judi Dench, cast in the role of Grizabella, snapped her Achilles tendon during rehearsals prior to the London opening. She was replaced by Elaine Paige. The musical was produced by Cameron Mackintosh and Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group, directed by Trevor Nunn, with associate director and choreographer Gillian Lynne, design by John Napier, and lighting by David Hersey. The conductor was Harry Rabinowicz. It played a total of 8,949 performances in London. Its final performance in London's West End was on its 21st birthday, 11 May 2002, and broadcast on a large screen in Covent Garden to the delight of"
"recognized as one of the original authors, and directed by Maltby. ""The New York Times"" reviewer wrote: ""The show moves with the zing and sparkle of a Waller recording-filled with bright melodies and asides."" Its reception was such that it was decided to develop it into a full-scale production. The musical opened on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre on May 9, 1978, and transferred to the Plymouth Theatre and then to the Belasco Theatre and closed on February 21, 1982, after 1604 performances and fourteen previews. Maltby was the director, with musical staging and choreography by Arthur Faria. The original"
"nominations, for Best Actor in a Musical (Cassidy), Best Featured Actor in a Musical (Michael O'Sullivan, playing the main villain), and Best Featured Actress in a Musical (Marand). One of the songs from the score, ""You've Got Possibilities"" (introduced by Lavin), had some success outside the show as a nightclub and cabaret standard. Two productions were staged the next year. Both the St. Louis Municipal Opera and the Kansas City Starlight Theatre (in 1966, titled ""Superman"") re-staged the show, and Bob Holiday played Superman in both productions. Each was an open-air venue, requiring the use of a large crane to"
"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"
"either singing dialogue or nursery rhymes... Harold Lang and Sheree North make a scorching sex rite out of 'What's In It for Me?'... Barbra Streisand trips the show into stray laughs. For the rest, ""Wholesale"" is as quiet as Seventh Avenue on Yom Kippur."" I Can Get It for You Wholesale I Can Get It for You Wholesale is a musical, produced by David Merrick, music and lyrics by Harold Rome, and book by Jerome Weidman, based on his 1937 novel of the same title. It marked the Broadway debut of 19-year-old Barbra Streisand, who was nominated for the Tony"
"an entirely new style of the explicitly nude Broadway musical. The director and actors created a unique new Broadway musical style and play, maintaining popularity over 40 years later. This was the first widely popular all-nude musical. The performance was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1975 for Best Original Cast Album. Susanna was a pop singer known under the stage name of Geneveve, in 1966 releasing the songs, ""Just a whisper"",""Summer days"",""Once"" and 1967 ""That Can't Be Bad"",""I Love Him, I Need Him"". Her songs got good airplay on English radio stations as well as pirate Radio 270. She"
"revivals on Broadway in 2001 and 2011. ""A Little Night Music"" (1973), with a more traditional plot based on Ingmar Bergman's ""Smiles of a Summer Night"" and a score primarily in waltz time, was one of the composer's greatest successes. ""Time"" magazine called it ""Sondheim's most brilliant accomplishment to date"". ""Send in the Clowns"", a song from the musical, was a hit for Judy Collins. ""A Little Night Music"" opened on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre on February 25, 1973 and closed on August 3, 1974, after 601 performances and 12 previews. It moved to the Majestic Theatre on September"
"49 performances. The cast included Christopher Plummer as Cyrano, Leigh Beery as Roxana, and Mark Lamos as Christian, with Tovah Feldshuh making her Broadway debut in two small supporting roles. Plummer won the Tony for Best Actor in a Musical and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance, and Beery was Tony-nominated for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. An original cast recording LP was released by A&M Records in 1973. An original cast recording CD was released by Decca Records in 2005. In September 1994, an abridged version of the musical was staged at The Newport Arts Center in Orange"
"of the Temptations [Original, Musical] Anastasia [Original, Musical] An American in Paris [Original, Musical] Hedwig and the Angry Inch [Original, Musical] Of Mice and Men [Revival, Play] Beautiful: The Carole King Musical [Original, Musical] Ann [Original, Play] Nice Work If You Can Get It [Original, Musical] Dead Accounts [Original, Play] One Man, Two Guvnors [Original, Play] The Mountaintop [Original, Play] War Horse [Original, Play] La Cage Aux Folles [Revival, Musical] A Little Night Music [Revival, Musical] Superior Donuts [Original, Play] Burn the Floor [Dance] The Norman Conquests [Revival, Play, Comedy] The 39 Steps [Original, Play, Comedy] Coram Boy [Original, Play,"
"The Music of the Night ""The Music of the Night"" (also labeled as just ""Music of the Night"") is a major song, as a male solo, from the 1986 musical ""The Phantom of the Opera"". The music was written by Andrew Lloyd Webber with lyrics by Charles Hart. It has appeared on multiple soundtracks of the musical, such as the original cast version in which English actor Michael Crawford sings the song. Initially made famous by Michael Crawford, the actor who originated the role of the Phantom both in the West End and on Broadway, the song has sold millions"
"The musical includes such hits as ""Super Trouper"", ""Lay All Your Love on Me"", ""Dancing Queen"", ""Knowing Me, Knowing You"", ""Take a Chance on Me"", ""Thank You for the Music"", ""Money, Money, Money"", ""The Winner Takes It All"", ""Voulez-Vous"", ""SOS"" and the title track. Over 60 million people have seen the show, which has grossed $2 billion worldwide since its 1999 debut. A film adaptation starring Meryl Streep, Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan, Amanda Seyfried, Christine Baranski, Stellan Skarsgård and Julie Walters was released in July 2008. As of 2018, the show has productions in London's West End, where it is"