"1954, and scored a Best Actress Oscar nomination for leading lady Dorothy Dandridge. The original production of ""Carousel"" was directed by Rouben Mamoulian and opened at Broadway's Majestic Theatre on April 19, 1945, running for 890 performances and closing on May 24, 1947. The cast included John Raitt, Jan Clayton, Jean Darling, Christine Johnson and Bambi Linn. From this show came the hit musical numbers ""The Carousel Waltz"" (an instrumental), ""If I Loved You"", ""June Is Bustin' Out All Over"", and ""You'll Never Walk Alone"". ""Carousel"" was also revolutionary for its time – adapted from Ferenc Molnár's play ""Liliom"", it"
"Carousel (film) Carousel is a 1956 American musical film based on the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical of the same name, which in turn was based on Ferenc Molnár's non-musical play ""Liliom"". The film stars Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones, and was directed by Henry King. Like the original stage production, the film contains what many critics consider some of Rodgers and Hammerstein's most beautiful songs, as well as what may be, along with the plots of ""Allegro"" and ""South Pacific"", the most serious storyline found in their musicals. The story revolves around Billy Bigelow, a rough-talking, macho, handsome"
"it. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that the film can still happen before I’m too old to play it (Bigelow).” Carousel (film) Carousel is a 1956 American musical film based on the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical of the same name, which in turn was based on Ferenc Molnár's non-musical play ""Liliom"". The film stars Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones, and was directed by Henry King. Like the original stage production, the film contains what many critics consider some of Rodgers and Hammerstein's most beautiful songs, as well as what may be, along with the plots of ""Allegro"" and"
"Montgomery, June Lang, and Al Shean. The director was Joe May, and the screenplay was by Howard Irving Young and Billy Wilder. It was released by Fox Film Corporation. The 1934 film, however, omitted the show's best-known number, ""The Song Is You"". The song was filmed, but deleted from the final print. A 1951 Broadway revival ran from October 8, 1951 through November 24, 1951 at the Ziegfeld Theatre. Directed by Oscar Hammerstein II, the cast featured Jane Pickens, Dennis King and Charles Winninger. Because of possible anti-German feeling after World War II, Hammerstein changed the setting from Munich to"
"Rodgers and Hammerstein's new show, ""Me and Juliet"", although ""South Pacific"" had to be moved to Boston for five weeks because of schedule conflicts. When it closed on January 16, 1954, after 1,925 performances, it was the second-longest-running musical in Broadway history, after ""Oklahoma!"". At the final performance, Myron McCormick, the only cast member remaining from the opening, led the performers and audience in ""Auld Lang Syne""; the curtain did not fall but remained raised as the audience left the theatre. On a South Pacific island during World War II, two half-Polynesian children, Ngana and Jerome, happily sing as they"
"opera house. She appeared on CBS radio's ""The Squibb Show"" twice in 1944. There she sang ""It's A Lovely Day"" and ""My Heart's in the Highlands"" with Lyn Murray and His Orchestra. In 1945, Johnson created the role of Nettie Fowler in ""Carousel"". Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote ""You'll Never Walk Alone"", which has become a standard, and ""June is Busting Out All Over"" especially for her. She also sang the role on the show's original cast album. Johnson stayed with the show for hundreds of performances and then toured and studied in Italy for a time. She rejoined ""Carousel"" during"
"Marc Blitzstein Marcus Samuel Blitzstein (March 2, 1905January 22, 1964), was an American composer, lyricist, and librettist. He won national attention in 1937 when his pro-union musical ""The Cradle Will Rock"", directed by Orson Welles, was shut down by the Works Progress Administration. He is known for ""The Cradle Will Rock"" and for his Off-Broadway translation/adaptation of ""The Threepenny Opera"" by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. His works also include the opera ""Regina"", an adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play ""The Little Foxes""; the Broadway musical ""Juno"", based on Seán O'Casey's play ""Juno and the Paycock""; and ""No for an Answer""."
"Monte Amundsen Monte Amundsen (January 15, 1930 – December 24, 2011) was an American opera and musical singer who appeared on Broadway in Marc Blitzstein's musical ""Juno"" in 1959, which starred Shirley Booth. Composer Marc Blitzstein was reportedly so delighted with Amundsen that he expanded her role in ""Juno (musical)"" to include three major songs: ""I Wish It So"", ""For Love"", and ""My True Heart"", as well as a duet with Shirley Booth, ""The Bird Upon The Tree"". The show was not a success, but Amundsen's well-received performance is preserved on the original cast recording. In 1964 she appeared in"
"years later of heart disease he was principal conductor of the Dance Theatre of Harlem. Milton Rosenstock Milton Rosenstock (June 9, 1917, New Haven, Connecticut - April 24, 1992, New York City) was an American conductor, composer, and arranger. Trained at the Juilliard School, he was highly active as a musical director for Broadway musicals from 1942 through 1980; serving in that capacity for 29 productions, including the original productions of ""Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"" (1949), ""Can-Can"" (1953), ""Bells Are Ringing"" (1956), ""Stop the World – I Want to Get Off"" (1962), ""Oliver!"" (1963), ""Funny Girl"" (1964), and ""A Funny Thing"
"learn for my second audition a few hours later."" All songs written by Harold Rome. The following songs from the musical show were not included in the cast recording: The songs ""Miss Marmelstein"" (performed by Barbra Streisand) and ""Who Knows?"" (performed by Marilyn Cooper) were released to radio as a promotional single in April 1962.[https://web.archive.org/web/20081026123030/http://www.bjsmusic.com/ [2<nowiki>]</nowiki>] The album peaked at #125 on Billboard's Pop Albums Chart.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090115234833/http://www.bjsmusic.com/wholesal.html [3<nowiki>]</nowiki>] Produced by Goddard Lieberson Music and Lyrics by Harold Rome Musical Direction and Vocal Arrangements by Lehman Engel Orchestrations by Sid Ramin Original Recording Engineers: Fred Plaut and Ed Michalski I Can Get"
"singing...As directed by Lewis Milestone everything moves along swiftly. On the whole, as screen entertainment and as musical adaptation, Par’s ‘Goes’ will do."" Anything Goes (1936 film) Anything Goes is a 1936 American musical film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Charles Ruggles and Ida Lupino. Based on the stage musical ""Anything Goes"" by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse, the stage version contains songs by Cole Porter. The film is about a young man who falls in love with a beautiful woman whom he follows onto a luxury liner, where he discovers she is an"
"A prolific songwriter, his best-known songs include ""Where Have All the Flowers Gone?"" (with Joe Hickerson), ""If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)"" (with Lee Hays of the Weavers), and ""Turn! Turn! Turn!"", which have been recorded by many artists both in and outside the folk revival movement and are sung throughout the world. ""Flowers"" was a hit recording for the Kingston Trio (1962); Marlene Dietrich, who recorded it in English, German and French (1962); and Johnny Rivers (1965). ""If I Had a Hammer"" was a hit for Peter, Paul and Mary (1962) and Trini Lopez (1963) while the"
"(1945), ""Some Enchanted Evening"" from ""South Pacific"" (1949), and ""We Kiss in a Shadow"" from ""The King and I"" (1951), all written by Rodgers and Hammerstein, as well as songs by Stephen Sondheim. Prior to the concert, the ""Toronto Star"" said, ""One thing we can be sure of is that, to borrow a phrase from one famous song, this could be the start of something big... After its Toronto premiere, it’s safe to assume ""If I Loved You"" will head for New York, the Hollywood Bowl and London"". The paper's entertainment contributor Martin Knelman predicted that the concert would sell"
"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"
"Anything Goes (1936 film) Anything Goes is a 1936 American musical film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Charles Ruggles and Ida Lupino. Based on the stage musical ""Anything Goes"" by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse, the stage version contains songs by Cole Porter. The film is about a young man who falls in love with a beautiful woman whom he follows onto a luxury liner, where he discovers she is an English heiress who ran away from home and is now being returned to England. He also discovers that his boss is on the"
"Romberg and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, Otto Harbach, and Frank Mandel. The stage musical opened at the Casino Theatre on Broadway on November 30, 1926 and ran for a very successful 465 performances. Based on the success of this film, Warner Bros. quickly cast John Boles in an all color musical feature called ""Song of the West"" which was completed by June 1929 but had its release delayed until March 1930. French General Birabeau has been sent to Morocco to root out and destroy the Riffs, a band of Arab rebels, who threaten the safety of the French"
"June Havoc. The musical contains many songs that became popular standards, including ""Everything's Coming up Roses"", ""Together (Wherever We Go)"", ""Small World"", ""You Gotta Get a Gimmick"", ""Let Me Entertain You"", ""All I Need Is the Girl"", and ""Rose's Turn"". It is frequently considered one of the crowning achievements of the mid-20th century's conventional musical theatre art form, often called the ""book musical"". ""Gypsy"" has been referred to as the greatest American musical by numerous critics and writers, among them Ben Brantley (""what may be the greatest of all American musicals..."") and Frank Rich. Rich wrote that """"Gypsy"" is nothing"
"The original soundtrack album was released by Decca Records and includes a mix of soundtrack performances and studio re-creations. The album stayed in Decca's catalog until 1969 when it was discontinued. In 2004, Decca Broadway re-released the recording on CD with three additional Crosby tracks: ""Sailor Beware"", ""My Heart and I"", and ""Moonburn"". Anything Goes (1956 film) Anything Goes is a 1956 American musical film directed by Robert Lewis, and starring Bing Crosby, Donald O'Connor, Jeanmaire, and Mitzi Gaynor. Adapted from the 1934 stage play ""Anything Goes"" by Cole Porter, Guy Bolton, and P.G. Wodehouse, the film is about two"
"almost entirely on his work in musical theater, although the bulk of his roles outside New York have been in classical drama or contemporary plays like ""Eastern Standard"". His Broadway credits include ""Is there life after high school?"", Will Parker in ""Oklahoma!"" (Tony Award nomination, Theatre World Award), Munkustrap in ""Cats"" (Tony nomination), Georges/George in ""Sunday in the Park with George"", and Bobby Child in ""Crazy for You"" (Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations). In 1999 he performed off-Broadway with Twiggy at the Lucille Lortel Theater in ""If Love Were All,"" a musical revue based on the"
"that recur throughout the work to connect the music and story. A fifteen-minute ""dream ballet"" reflects Laurey's struggle with her feelings about two men, Curly and Jud. By the early 1940s, Rodgers and Hammerstein were each well known for creating Broadway hits with other collaborators. Rodgers, with Lorenz Hart, had produced over two dozen musicals since the 1920s, including such popular successes as ""Babes in Arms"" (1937), ""The Boys from Syracuse"" (1938) and ""Pal Joey"" (1940). Among other successes, Hammerstein had written the words for ""Rose-Marie"" (1924), ""The Desert Song"" (1926), ""The New Moon"" (1927) and ""Show Boat"" (1927). Though"
"Berlin's ""Blue Skies"" (1927) and Cole Porter's ""What Is This Thing Called Love?"" (1929). However, it was not until the 1930s that musicians became comfortable with the harmonic and melodic sophistication of Broadway tunes and started including them regularly in their repertoire. Broadway theatre contributed some of the most popular standards of the 1930s, including George and Ira Gershwin's ""Summertime"" (1935), Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's ""My Funny Valentine"" (1937) and Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's ""All the Things You Are"" (1939). These songs still rank among the most recorded standards of all time. The most popular 1930s standard,"
"Kern and Hammerstein's best-loved songs, ""All the Things You Are"". By the early 1940s, Hart had sunk deeper into alcoholism and emotional turmoil, and he became unreliable, prompting Rodgers to approach Hammerstein to ask if he would consider working with him. Independently of each other, Rodgers and Hammerstein had been attracted to making a musical based on Lynn Riggs' stage play ""Green Grow the Lilacs"". When Jerome Kern declined Hammerstein's offer to work on such a project and Hart refused Rodgers' offer to do the same, Rodgers and Hammerstein began their first collaboration. The result, ""Oklahoma!"" (1943), marked a revolution"
"Gordon MacRae Albert Gordon MacRae (March 12, 1921 – January 24, 1986) was an American actor and singer, who appeared in the film versions of two Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, ""Oklahoma!"" (1955) and ""Carousel"" (1956), and played Bill Sherman in ""On Moonlight Bay"" (1951) and ""By The Light of the Silvery Moon"" (1953). Born in East Orange in Essex County in northeastern New Jersey, MacRae graduated in 1940 from Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts, and he thereafter served as a navigator in IX Troop Carrier Command in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. Prior to this,"
"(later Allen) sang it. 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"
"story from the original song from the father's point of view, and the 1962 song ""Boa Constrictor"", sung by a person who is being swallowed by a snake (recorded by the folk group Peter, Paul, and Mary) also recorded by Johnny Cash for his 1966 album ""Everybody Loves A Nut"" although it is now better known as a children's playground chant. A longtime friend of singer-songwriter Pat Dailey, Silverstein collaborated with him on the posthumously released ""Underwater Land"" album (2002). It contains 17 children's songs written and produced by Silverstein and sung by Dailey (with Silverstein joining him on a"
"and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II (a nod to Jackman’s role as Curly in the 1998 London revival at the Royal National Theatre and in the subsequent 1999 musical film) “Top Hat” from Top Hat (1936), music and lyrics by Irving Berlin “I Feel a Song Coming On,” from Every Night at Eight (1935), music by Jimmy McHugh and lyrics by Dorothy Fields “Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat” from Guys and Dolls (1950), music by and lyrics by Frank Loesser “Don’t Rain on My Parade” from Funny Girl (1968), music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Bob Merrill “Broadway"
"Milton Rosenstock Milton Rosenstock (June 9, 1917, New Haven, Connecticut - April 24, 1992, New York City) was an American conductor, composer, and arranger. Trained at the Juilliard School, he was highly active as a musical director for Broadway musicals from 1942 through 1980; serving in that capacity for 29 productions, including the original productions of ""Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"" (1949), ""Can-Can"" (1953), ""Bells Are Ringing"" (1956), ""Stop the World – I Want to Get Off"" (1962), ""Oliver!"" (1963), ""Funny Girl"" (1964), and ""A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"" (1972). He also composed the music for the"
"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"
"to Rodgers and Hammerstein, ""The General Foods 25th Anniversary Show"", which featured all the then-surviving stars (except Alfred Drake) of all the classic Broadway musicals that the team had written (1943–1954). Clayton and John Raitt, in full makeup and costume, performed ""If I Loved You"" (also known as the Bench Scene) from ""Carousel"". It was the first opportunity for millions of viewers to see a scene from the musical, since none of the film versions of the Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musicals had yet been released. Clayton during this period also played herself in an appearance on Peter Lawford's short-lived"
"Against Death,"" ""The Miracle of America,"" ""No Help Wanted,"" ""Request Performance,"" ""Saturday Night Swing Club,"" ""Suspense"" and radio crime melodrama ""Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar."" Stevens' piano concerto in C minor was his first work to be used on cinema for the 1947 Hollywood film ""Night Song"". In it Arthur Rubinstein played piano accompanied by the New York Philharmonic and conducted by Eugene Ormandy. The music is tonal, with a horizontal (as distinct from vertical) compositional approach, with sophisticated harmonies and challenging virtuoso passages for the piano. The work is influenced by Delius, Rachmaninov, and Gershwin, and is both impressionist and"
"also been given the opportunity to perform it on the television program ""American Bandstand"". A 1964 version by Pat Wayne and the Beachcombers is noteworthy because of the involvement of the guitarist Jimmy Page, later of The Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin. It was re-released in 1989 as part of the compilation """". In 1992 Paul Shaffer and The World's Most Dangerous Band recorded a version of the song as the main theme for the feature film ""Beethoven"". Roll Over Beethoven ""Roll Over Beethoven"" is a 1956 hit single written by Chuck Berry, originally released on Chess Records, with ""Drifting Heart"""
"in Australia (Canberra - 2009 and Feb 2010) as well as numerous productions in U.S. regional theatres and in Canada. Each musical features four players who reprise similar archetypal melodrama roles in each. Corn! is set in the style of the musicals of Rodgers & Hammerstein, featuring parodies of and references to ""Oklahoma!"", ""Carousel"", ""The Sound of Music"", ""The King and I"", ""Cinderella"", ""Flower Drum Song"" and ""South Pacific"". In Kansas in August, Jitter threatens that June will have to marry him if she can't pay the rent; Big Willy is torn between his desire to marry her himself and"
"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"