'The Night They Invented Champagne' and 'Thank Heaven For Little Girls', are songs from which musical?
"Fair Lady"" and ""Camelot"". ""Gigi"" was a box-office and critical success which won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture. From it came several hit songs, including ""Thank Heaven For Little Girls"", ""I Remember It Well"", the ""Waltz at Maxim's"", and the Oscar-winning title song. The film was the last MGM musical to win a Best Picture Oscar, an honor that had previously gone to ""The Broadway Melody"" (1929), ""The Great Ziegfeld"" (1936), and ""An American in Paris"" (1951). The very last musical film produced by the ""Freed Unit"" was an adaptation of the Broadway musical ""Bells Are Ringing"" (1960) with"
"Thank Heaven for Little Girls (album) Thank Heaven for Little Girls is an album by Dwarves released via Sub Pop in 1991. Lyricism of ""Thank Heaven for Little Girls"" ranges from the macabre deaths of young ladies of the night in ""Blag the Ripper"" (inspired by the historical Jack the Ripper), to befriending Satan in ""Satan,"" and to general selfishness in ""Anybody But Me."" The song title of ""Dairy Queen"" is inspired by being stranded at a local Dairy Queen restaurant in Missouri. David Sprague of ""Trouser Press"" described the album as a ""water-treading"" release, and noted the band's shift"
"Forsman as Juletid (""Christmastime""), Carola Søgaard and Christer Sjögren recorded the song on the 1991 Christmas album ""Jul"". Mistletoe and Wine ""Mistletoe and Wine"" is a Christmas song made famous as a single by Cliff Richard in 1988. The song was written by Jeremy Paul, Leslie Stewart and Keith Strachan for a musical called ""Scraps"", which was an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's ""The Little Match Girl"" set in Victorian London. ""Scraps"" was first performed at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, London in 1976. The musical was renamed ""The Little Match Girl"" and adapted for television by HTV in 1987,"
"Two Little Girls in Blue Two Little Girls in Blue is a musical theatre work composed by Paul Lannin and Vincent Youmans, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin (under the pseudonym ""Arthur Francis"") and a libretto by Fred Jackson. The musical premiered at the George M. Cohan's Theatre on Broadway on May 3, 1921. The first ""conference"" for the show was held at the Garden City Hotel, where Lannin worked as a chef. According to Gershwin, ""His father wanted him to learn every phase of the hotel business, which didn't include composing."" A.L. Erlanger was brought in as producer, though Youmans"
"Girls"". The song ""I Could Love a Million Girls"" is also featured in ""The Simpsons"" episode 7G10: ""Homer's Night Out"". Mam'zelle Champagne Mam'zelle Champagne was a musical revue with book by Edgar Allan Woolf, music by Cassius Freeborn, produced by Henry Pincus, which opened June 25, 1906. On opening night at the outdoor Madison Square Garden Roof Theatre, millionaire playboy Harry K. Thaw shot and killed architect Stanford White: the otherwise undistinguished musical's run continued for some 60 performances largely on the publicity from this incident. Directed by Lionel Lawrence, ""Mamzelle Champagne"" was Maude Fulton’s Broadway debut. Viola de Costa,"
"He also wrote ""The Little Match Girl"", based on Hans Christian Andersen's short story, for the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, which contained the song ""Mistletoe and Wine."" HTV produced the play for television in 1986. Two years later, he received an Ivor Novello award for the song, which Cliff Richard released it as a single. Throughout the eighties and nineties he directed a series of pop and rock compilation musicals for Bill Kenwright. In 1998, television production company Celador, for whom he had written the themes for ""The Detectives"" and ""Talking Telephone Numbers"", called upon him to supply some music"
"Maurice Chevalier Maurice Auguste Chevalier (September 12, 1888 – January 1, 1972) was a French actor, cabaret singer and entertainer. He is perhaps best known for his signature songs, including his first American hit ""Livin' In The Sunlight"", ""Valentine"", ""Louise"", ""Mimi"", and ""Thank Heaven for Little Girls"" and for his films, including ""The Love Parade"", ""The Big Pond"" and ""Love Me Tonight"". His trademark attire was a boater hat, which he always wore on stage with a tuxedo. Chevalier was born in Paris. He made his name as a star of musical comedy, appearing in public as a singer and"
"The Little Girls The Little Girls was a novelty band by the sisters Caron Maso (guitar, vocals) and Michele Maso (vocals) from San Fernando Valley in the early 1980s. They had two hits, ""The Earthquake Song"" and ""How to Pick Up Girls"". Both of these songs were hits on KROQ, a new wave radio station based in Los Angeles. They opened for many well-known acts such as The Call, The Plimsouls, The Boomtown Rats, Billy Idol, Janis Ian, and The Pretenders. Their LP ""Thank Heaven"" was released in 1983. The music video for ""How to Pick Up Girls"" was one"
"A Grand Night for Singing A Grand Night for Singing is a musical revue showcasing the music of Richard Rodgers and the lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II. Featuring songs from such lesser-known works as ""Allegro"", ""Me and Juliet"", ""State Fair"", and ""Pipe Dream"", modest successes like ""Flower Drum Song"" and hits like ""Carousel"", ""Oklahoma!"", ""The King and I"", ""South Pacific"", ""Cinderella"" and ""The Sound of Music"", it originally was presented cabaret-style at Rainbow & Stars at the top of Rockefeller Center. After 41 previews, the Broadway production, directed by Walter Bobbie (who wrote the minimal book linking the tunes) and"
"Mistletoe and Wine ""Mistletoe and Wine"" is a Christmas song made famous as a single by Cliff Richard in 1988. The song was written by Jeremy Paul, Leslie Stewart and Keith Strachan for a musical called ""Scraps"", which was an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's ""The Little Match Girl"" set in Victorian London. ""Scraps"" was first performed at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, London in 1976. The musical was renamed ""The Little Match Girl"" and adapted for television by HTV in 1987, and featured Roger Daltrey, Paul Daneman, Jimmy Jewel and Twiggy. As originally conceived, ""Mistletoe and Wine"" had a"
"this song attracted the attention of Walt Disney who eventually hired the Sherman Brothers as Staff Songwriters for Walt Disney Studios. While at Disney, the Sherman Brothers wrote what is perhaps their most recognized song: ""It's a Small World (After All)"" for the 1964 New York World's Fair. In 1965, the Sherman Brothers won two Academy Awards for ""Mary Poppins"" – Best Original Score, which included ""Feed The Birds"", ""Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious""; and Best Original Song, ""Chim Chim Cher-ee"". Since ""Mary Poppins""' premiere, Robert B. Sherman subsequently earned 9 Academy Award nominations, 2 Grammy Awards, 4 Grammy Award nominations and 23 gold"
"working in Paris. When Chevalier, who already had agreed to appear in the film, first heard ""Thank Heaven for Little Girls"", he was delighted. When he discussed his waning interest in wine and women in favor of performing for an audience in cabarets, Chevalier inadvertently inspired the creation of another tune for his character, ""I'm Glad I'm Not Young Anymore"". The lyrics for another of his songs, the duet ""I Remember It Well"", performed with Hermione Gingold as his former love Madame Alvarez, were adapted from words Lerner had written for ""Love Life"", a 1948 collaboration with Kurt Weill. ""Say"
"were ""The Song from Moulin Rouge"" and ""I'll Remember Today."" William Engvick William Engvick (July 1, 1914 – September 4, 2012) was an American lyricist, many of whose compositions appear in films. Engvick graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1937. He is best known for his collaborations with composer Alec Wilder; they produced songs for the Broadway musical ""Once Over Lightly"" (1942), and for the musical television specials ""Miss Chicken Little"" (1953), ""Pinocchio"" (1957). and ""Hansel and Gretel"" (1958), Engvick was also responsible for a number of English-language lyrics to songs originally composed in French like ""Give me"
"Gala celebration of Philadelphia's Academy of Music. He created, with Jason Alexander, ""Seven Broadway Shows in 7 Minutes"". This witty medley was performed by Alexander with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, when the orchestra inducted its long-time conductor John Mauceri into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame in 2007. Ellis is the composer of the original music for the 2009 Off Broadway run of ""The Tin Pan Alley Rag"", which told the story of a fictional meeting between musical greats Scott Joplin and Irving Berlin. Ellis has composed or played piano for many TV shows and films, including ""Gilmore Girls"" (in"
"Thank God for Kids ""Thank God for Kids"" is a song written by Eddy Raven. He recorded it in 1972 for his Dot Records album of the same name, and included it as the b-side to his 1976 single ""The Curse of a Woman"". It was later recorded by American country music band The Oak Ridge Boys, whose version was the only single from their 1982 ""Christmas"" album. The song spent sixteen weeks on the Hot Country Songs charts and peaked at number three. In 2004, Kenny Chesney covered the song for his Christmas album ""All I Want for Christmas"
"Main Street projections are currently being used for Disney's Celebrate America, Mickey's Halloween Party, Believe... In Holiday Magic (and related shows such as Wintertime Enchantment and snowfall) and is planned to be used in an upcoming Pixar Fireworks show as part of ""Pixar Fest"". Two new songs were written for the show: the theme song ""Live the Magic"" and the exit song ""Kiss Goodnight"", the latter of which was written by composer Richard M. Sherman and sung by Broadway star Ashley Brown. Other songs co-written by Sherman and his late brother, Robert B. Sherman, including ""Step in Time"" from ""Mary"
"Academy Awards ceremony with Jack Benny on first violin, Mansfield on violin, Dick Powell on trumpet, Robert Mitchum on woodwind, Fred Astaire on drums and Jerry Lewis as conductor; however, the performance was canceled. She sang ""Too Marvelous for Words"" for ""The Jack Benny Program"" (""Jack Takes Boat to Hawaii""; Episode 9, Season 14; November 26, 1963). Her club performances regularly featured songs like ""Call Me"", ""A Little Brains, A Little Talent"" (""This Queen has her aces in all the right places""), ""Plain Jane"", ""Quando-Quando"", ""Besame Mucho"", and the song made famous by Marilyn Monroe — ""Diamonds Are a Girl's"
"Thank God for Girls (song) ""Thank God for Girls"" is a song by American rock band Weezer. The song was released on October 26, 2015. The release of the song was accompanied by a lyric video which prominently features the cannoli mentioned in the song's first verse. After two days of radio airplay, ""Thank God for Girls"" was ranked as the most-added song of the week on alternative radio stations in the United States. It impacted more than twice as many stations as the next most-added song, The 1975's ""Love Me."" The official music video was released on November 16,"
"however, but also from such Disneyland attractions as It's a Small World and The Enchanted Tiki Room, both with songs by Disney's prolific songwriter brother duo, Richard and Robert Sherman. Also performed in the musical is composer Alan Menken's ""A Change in Me"" — a song written for Toni Braxton when she entered the role of Belle in the Broadway production of ""Beauty and the Beast"". The songs are grouped into 15 recording sessions, as well as a prologue, finale, and a collection of instrumentals played after curtain call as the audience exits the theater, with each section's songs holding"
"Omaha and Company ""The Gospel of Gabriel Finn""| Gabriel Finn ACT TWO ""Terre Haute High"" |April ""Life Wins"" | Omaha ""The Worm Germ"" | Provo ""Isaacs' Equation"" | Dr. Isaacs ""Dance the Dark Away!"" | Storyteller and Company ""Four Hundred Girls Ago"" | Gabriel Finn ""All My Good Mornings"" | Omaha ""Isaacs' Equation (Reprise)"" | Dr. Isaacs ""Children of the Sun (Reprise)"" | Omaha and Gabriel Finn ""New Jerusalem"" | Company Via Galactica Via Galactica is a rock musical with a book by Christopher Gore and Judith Ross, lyrics by Gore, and music by Galt MacDermot. It marked the Broadway"
"been lost and was recomposed by Nathan Hurwitz. This production was produced by David Mayhew and Victoria Sanders, starring Alison Bevan in a 99-seat black box theatre beneath CIrcle-in-the-Square downtown on West 4th Street. It ran for only a few weeks. §Additional lyrics by Fred Jackson.<br> †Additional lyrics by Schuyler Greene.<br> ††Additional lyrics by Irving Caesar. Two Little Girls in Blue Two Little Girls in Blue is a musical theatre work composed by Paul Lannin and Vincent Youmans, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin (under the pseudonym ""Arthur Francis"") and a libretto by Fred Jackson. The musical premiered at the George"
"The Schuyler Sisters ""The Schuyler Sisters"" is the fifth song from Act 1 of the musical ""Hamilton"", based on the life of Alexander Hamilton, which premiered on Broadway in 2015. Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote both the music and lyrics to the song. Musical director Alex Lacamoire explained that the song originally had a throwback Daft Punk/Pharrell feel, but after viewing a series of Vines with the three actresses improv-ing on Destiny's Child songs, he reworked the song to give it a Destiny's Child vibe, then let the sisters add their own harmonies to the tune; he ""realized there's nothing in the"
"the students, cousins, and cops are played by three ensemble members. The order of characters is the order of the character's importance to the song. 21 Chump Street 21 Chump Street is a fourteen-minute mini-musical written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, who is known for creating the Broadway musicals ""In the Heights"", ""Bring It On the Musical"", and ""Hamilton"". The show was based on the second act of episode #457 of ""This American Life"", titled ""What I Did For Love"" and reported by Robbie Brown, in which a high school student falls in love with an undercover police officer, and is ultimately"
"Your Sunday Clothes"", and ""It Only Takes a Moment"" from ""Hello, Dolly!""; ""It's Today!"", ""Open a New Window"", ""We Need a Little Christmas,"" and ""Bosom Buddies"" from ""Mame""; and ""Tap Your Troubles Away"", ""I Won't Send Roses"" and ""Time Heals Everything"" from ""Mack & Mabel"". Herman was the first (of only two) composers/lyricists to have three musicals run more than 1500 consecutive performances on Broadway (the other being Stephen Schwartz): ""Hello, Dolly!"" (2,844), ""Mame"" (1,508), and ""La Cage aux Folles"" (1,761). He is honored by a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at the 7000 block of Hollywood Boulevard."
"an expanded score by Martin and Ralph Blane. He composed the songs for the West End musical ""Love from Judy"" (1952). Martin's first Broadway credit was as an arranger for the 1937 musical ""Hooray for What!"" and was a vocal or choral arranger for such later Broadway musicals as ""The Boys From Syracuse"" (1938–39), ""Too Many Girls"" (1939–40), ""DuBarry Was a Lady"" (1939–40), ""Cabin in the Sky"" (1940–41), and ""Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"" (1949–51), ""Top Banana"" (1951–52), and ""Lorelei"" (1974). He was a vocal arranger for ""Sugar Babies"" (1979–82). As a performer, Martin appeared on Broadway in ""Hooray for What!"" (1937),"
"with musical director Joe Wicht developed “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” at New Conservatory Theater which garnered several awards including the Bay Area Theater Critic’s Circle Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Musical. She then was cast in 2 Los Angeles productions of “Judy’s Scary Little Christmas” directed by Broadway legend Kay Cole. For this performance Champagne won the Ovation Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical. She often appears in clubs as Garland, and when asked if she is bored with being type cast in the Garland role, she answered “No—the character is always complex & interesting—plus"
"A Little Night Music A Little Night Music is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. Inspired by the Ingmar Bergman film ""Smiles of a Summer Night"", it involves the romantic lives of several couples. Its title is a literal English translation of the German name for Mozart's Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major, ""Eine kleine Nachtmusik"". The musical includes the popular song ""Send in the Clowns"". Since its original 1973 Broadway production, the musical has enjoyed professional productions in the West End, by opera companies, in a 2009 Broadway revival,"
"as at the Metropolitan Opera House — has also been performed by other singers including Susan Egan and John Tartaglia. They also wrote the cult-hit ""Alto's Lament"" which is a song about an alto who longs to sing melody for a change from harmony. Goldrich has played the keyboards in Broadway orchestra pits, including ""Avenue Q"", ""Oklahoma!"", ""Bombay Dreams"", ""Grand Hotel"" and conducted at ""Titanic"". With Marcy Heisler, she has written songs for the Disney characters Winnie-the-Pooh, Timon and Pumbaa; they are also contributors to the Disney Channel's ""Johnny and the Sprites"". She composed the music of Dear Edwina. She"
"Mean Girls (musical) Mean Girls is a musical with music by Jeff Richmond, lyrics by Nell Benjamin, and a book by Tina Fey. It is based on the 2004 film of the same name written by Fey, which, in turn, was inspired by the book ""Queen Bees and Wannabes"" by Rosalind Wiseman. The musical premiered at the National Theatre, Washington, D.C., in October 2017 and opened on Broadway in April 2018 at the August Wilson Theatre. A musical adaptation of the 2004 film ""Mean Girls"" was in the works by 2013. News emerged on October 3, 2016—the day of the"
"21 Chump Street 21 Chump Street is a fourteen-minute mini-musical written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, who is known for creating the Broadway musicals ""In the Heights"", ""Bring It On the Musical"", and ""Hamilton"". The show was based on the second act of episode #457 of ""This American Life"", titled ""What I Did For Love"" and reported by Robbie Brown, in which a high school student falls in love with an undercover police officer, and is ultimately arrested for selling drugs to the officer in an attempt to impress her. The musical premiered in a showcase put on by ""This American Life"","
"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"
"Airlines ""Flight Fever & Hearts over Heels"", Dream Academy Productions’ ""Island Magic"", iTheatre’s ""3 men & a boot"" (2003), Toy Factory’s ""Morning People"" (2001), Action Theatre’s ""Chang and Eng"" (2000), Rainbow Theatre’s ""Sayang"" (2001), ""Temptations"" (2000), Drama Box’s ""Mr Beng"" & Singapore Lyric Opera’s ""Grand Opera Gala"" (1999/2000), ""I Have a Date with Spring"" (1999), Singapore Repertory Theatre’s ""They’re Playing Our Song"" (1999), ""Into the Woods"" (1994) and ""Godspell"" (1993, 2002). She also composed a musical, titled ""Haven"", which premiered on August 4 and 5, 2006 at Anglo-Chinese School (Independent), where she was formerly a music teacher. She also taught"
"Lin-Manuel Miranda Lin-Manuel Miranda (; born January 16, 1980) is an American composer, lyricist, playwright, rapper, and actor best known for creating and starring in the Broadway musicals ""In the Heights"" and ""Hamilton"". He co-wrote the songs for Walt Disney Animation Studios' ""Moana"" soundtrack (2016) and co-starred in the film ""Mary Poppins Returns"". Miranda's awards include a Pulitzer Prize, three Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, three Tony Awards and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Miranda was awarded the Kennedy Center Honor in 2018. Miranda wrote the music and lyrics for the musical ""In the"