"As Long as He Needs Me ""As Long as He Needs Me"" is a torch song sung by the character of Nancy in the 1960 musical ""Oliver!"" and written by Lionel Bart. Georgia Brown, who was the first actress to play Nancy, introduced the song. It is a love ballad expressing Nancy's love for her criminal boyfriend Bill Sikes despite his mistreatment of her. In the film adaptation of the musical, it was sung by Shani Wallis. A reprise of this song towards the end of the show expresses Nancy's affection for young Oliver Twist, implying that she now feels"
"comic character than as a villain, and large portions of the latter part of the story being completely left out. Although Dickens' novel has been called antisemitic in its portrayal of the Jew Fagin as evil, the production by Bart (himself a Jew) was more sympathetic and featured many Jewish actors in leading roles: Ron Moody (Ronald Moodnick), Georgia Brown (Lilian Klot), and Martin Horsey. The musical opens in the workhouse, as the half-starved orphan boys are entering the enormous dining room for dinner. They are fed only gruel, but find some solace by imagining a richer menu, (""Food Glorious"
"Edible Inevitable Tour"" and actor Bart Hansard, who played multiple characters on ""Good Eats"". Brown announced his music album, ""Bitter like Me"", on November 2, 2016. The album contains nine food-themed songs from his live stage shows and a new Thanksgiving-themed song. Physical CDs of the album were made available at Brown's live stage shows and through the stage show's website. Streaming versions were released in March 2018 via Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, Google Play, and Apple Music. ""Bon Appétit"" magazine named him ""Cooking Teacher of the Year"" in 2004, and he won a Peabody Award in 2007 for ""Good"
"Lives"" features harmony vocals by Robert Meadmore, who had appeared in one of ""The Magic of the Musicals"" tours with Webb. Webb first performed the song ""As Long As He Needs Me"" as Nancy in ""Oliver!"" and ""Stage Door John"" when playing Susie Dean in the musical version of J. B. Priestley's ""The Good Companions"". She had not previously recorded ""As Long As He Needs Me"". Webb had previously recorded ""Wind Beneath My Wings"" and ""Ben"" for album ""Encore"" (1985), ""Take That Look Off Your Face"" for album ""Tell Me on a Sunday"" (1980) and ""Always There"" for her album"
"and Margaret Sullavan. A few years later it was re-filmed as ""In the Good Old Summertime"" (1949), a semi-musical showcase for Judy Garland, starring Judy Garland, Van Johnson, and S. Z. Sakall. In 1963, the play was produced as a full Broadway musical with book by Joe Masteroff and was titled ""She Loves Me"". ""She Loves Me"" had music by Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock (""Fiorello!"", ""Fiddler on the Roof"", ""The Apple Tree"") and was nominated for 5 Tony Awards including Best Musical, with Jack Cassidy winning for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical. ""She Loves Me"","
"and directed by longtime friend Bert Convy. The show was mounted at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut, but never had another production. He wrote all the songs for Robert Altman's movie-musical ""Popeye"" (1980), the score of which met with unfavorable reviews. Nilsson's ""Popeye"" compositions included several songs that were representative of Nilsson's acclaimed ""Point"" era, such as ""Everything Is Food"" and ""Sweethaven"". The song ""He Needs Me"" featured years later in the film ""Punch-Drunk Love"". Nilsson recorded one more album, ""Flash Harry"", co-produced by Bruce Robb and Steve Cropper, which was released in the UK but not"
"on ""Oliver Twist"", includes the songs ""Food, Glorious Food"", ""Consider Yourself"" and ""You've Got To Pick A Pocket Or Two"". Two more Dickens stories turned into musicals were ""A Christmas Carol"" (filmed as ""Scrooge"" in 1970) and ""The Old Curiosity Shop"", which became ""Mr Quilp"" in 1975. The musical adaptation of ""Goodbye, Mr. Chips"" with Peter O'Toole and Petula Clark made use of several London locations, including the dining room at the Savoy Hotel and the Salisbury pub in the heart of the West End. ""Quadrophenia"" (1979) draws its soundtrack from the album of the same name, a rock opera"
"increased again when he won both a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for the musical ""The Who's Tommy"" in 1993. He repeated the success in London in 1996 with an Laurence Olivier Award nomination. He recreated Fosse's style in the ""How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"" revival in 1995 and ""Sweet Charity"" and has staged two new musicals, ""Aida"" and ""Wicked"", two of the biggest hits of the 2000s. Recently, he staged the hip-hop musical ""Holler If Ya Hear Me"" featuring the music of Tupac Shakur and directed the ""American Dance Machine"" 2015/16 season at The"
"Grant, the character Asner played in the series ""The Mary Tyler Moore Show"" and ""Lou Grant"". The song Homer sings upon being given the food critic job is set to the tune of ""I Feel Pretty"" from the musical ""West Side Story"". The restaurant Planet Springfield is a parody of Planet Hollywood, containing items such as the film script for ""The Cable Guy"" (1996), Herbie from ""The Love Bug"" (1968), a model of the RMS Titanic from ""Titanic"" (1997), an alien similar to those from ""Mars Attacks!"" (1996), models of a TIE fighter, an X-wing fighter and C-3PO from the"
"Award for Best Musical, the Evening Standard Award for Best Musical and the Olivier Award for Best Musical revival. The production was filmed and subsequently screened in cinemas worldwide. Between 2014 and 2016, Umbers played Wing Commander Nick Lucas in the ITV and PBS World War Two drama Home Fires. After playing the lead role of Georg in ""She Loves Me"" at the Menier Chocolate Factory in 2016, he played Robert Walsh in David Hare's Netflix series ""Collateral"" alongside Carey Mulligan. In August 2017, he reprised his role as Franklin Shepard in ""Merrily We Roll Along"" for Huntington Theatre Company"
"the London stage and bringing an end to censorship of British theatre. ""Oliver!"" (1960), based on Dickens's ""Oliver Twist"", was a huge hit from the beginning and became the first modern British musical to be transferred successfully to Broadway. ""Oliver!"" has sustained its popularity to the present day, and for many years was the standard musical performed by schools in the UK. The original stage production, which starred Ron Moody and Georgia Brown, contained such song hits as ""As Long As He Needs Me"" and ""Consider Yourself""; it is also notable for featuring Australian satirist Barry Humphries in his first"
"""Candide"" (as Maximillian) and (and The Beadle), both filmed for PBS. He has also appeared in such television shows as ""The Detour"", ""Will & Grace"", ""30 Rock"", ""The Good Wife"", ""Ugly Betty"", ""Just Shoot Me!"", and ""Law & Order,"" and the films ""The Big Sick"" and ""Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat."" In 2000, noted Broadway actress and recording artist Audra McDonald included Blumenkrantz's song ""I Won't Mind"" on her CD, ""How Glory Goes"". This lullaby (with lyrics by Annie Kessler and Libby Saines) has become a staple of McDonald's repertoire. Blumenkrantz also contributed a piece to ""The Seven Deadly"
"She Loves Me She Loves Me is a musical with a book by Joe Masteroff, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and music by Jerry Bock. The musical is the third adaptation of the 1937 play ""Parfumerie"" by Hungarian playwright Miklós László, following the 1940 James Stewart-Margaret Sullavan film ""The Shop Around the Corner"" and the 1949 Judy Garland-Van Johnson musical version ""In the Good Old Summertime"". It surfaced again in 1998 as the Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan feature ""You've Got Mail"". The plot revolves around Budapest shop employees Georg Nowack and Amalia Balash who, despite being consistently at odds with each other"
"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."
"for Best Musical five times with ""Walking Happy"" (1967); ""Skyscraper"" (1966), ""Little Me"" (1963); ""How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"" (1962), and ""Guys and Dolls"" (1951). ""Little Me"" and ""How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"" also garnered them nominations for the Tony Award for Best Producer of a Musical. ""How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"" and ""Guys and Dolls"" won the Tony Award for Best Musical, while ""Business"" also won the Best Producer Tony and the Pulitzer Prize. Feuer and Martin owned the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre from 1960 to 1965. They were so successful as"
"of the complete scores of two George and Ira Gershwin musicals: ""Of Thee I Sing"" and its sequel ""Let 'Em Eat Cake"". This was the first time these scores had been recorded in their entirety. Kert made brief appearances in the feature films ""Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"" (1953) and ""New York, New York"" (1977). His television credits included guest appearances on ""The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Alfred Hitchcock Presents)"", ""Kraft Suspense Theatre"", ""The Bell Telephone Hour"", ""Hawaii Five-O"", ""Kojak: Conspiracy of Fear (1973)"", and ""Love, American Style"". He appeared several times on ""The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson"". Kert's last stage appearance came"
"the reality shows ""Temptation Island"", ""Joe Millionaire"" and ""The Bachelor"". Lisa's placemat features the quote ""If music be the food of love, play on,"" from Act 1, Scene 1 of ""Twelfth Night"" by William Shakespeare. In the commercial of ""Farmer Billy's Bacon"" factory the pig in blue overalls and a hat looks similar to Porky Pig. The country singer at the fair resembles real-life country star Alan Jackson, while the song ""America (I Love this Country)"" is a parody of Lee Greenwood's song ""God Bless the USA"" and the Dalai Lama's entrance music is ""See See Rider"", just like Elvis"
"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,"
"is also often referred to as the ""Ice Cream Musical"" because of a signature song and performance by Barbara Cook. ""She Loves Me"" was revived in 1993 by the Roundabout Theatre Company and ran for 354 performances. It was nominated for 9 Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical as well as in all four acting categories, with Boyd Gains winning for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical. It was revived again in 2016 for a limited run at Studio 54 from February to July and was nominated for 8 Tony Awards, including Best Revival of"
"Music Man"", ""Urban Cowboy:The Musical"", ""The Merry Wives of Windsor"" (Opera), ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" (Opera), ""The Magic Flute"", ""The Pirates of Penzance"", ""Guys and Dolls"", ""Falstaff"", ""Lucia di Lammermoor"", ""Oil City Symphony"", ""The Boor"" (Opera), ""Signor Deluso"", ""The Medium"", ""The Fantastiks"", ""Man of La Mancha"", ""Songs For a New World"", ""The Merry Widow"", ""Suor Angelica"", ""L'heure espagnole"", ""Kiss Me, Kate"", ""West Side Story"", ""Passion"", ""Susannah"", ""Così fan tutte]"", ""The Elixir of Love"", ""Bye Bye Birdie"", ""The Tender Land"", ""Working"", ""The Impresario"" and ""Oklahoma!"". The Wanda L. Bass School of Music produces another, student run, Music Theatre Company called ""Stripped""."
"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"
"the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again"", ""Emily of Emerald Hill"", ""Animal Farm"", ""La Cage Aux Folles"" and ""The Importance of Being Earnest"". Other highlights of his career include acting in ""Army Daze"", ""Beauty World"" (both original casts) and ""M. Butterfly"" (India, Canada, Singapore); conceiving and directing ""Ah Kong's Birthday Party"" (Singapore's longest-running play); directing ""Dim Sum Dollies Steaming!"" and ""Singapore's Most Wanted"" (Esplanade Theatre), ""Phua Chu Kang: the Musical"" for the President of Singapore's Star Charity, Puccini's ""Madama Butterfly"" for the Singapore Lyric Opera (Esplanade Theatre), and co-directing and performing in ""Hotel Grand Asia"", a three-year intercultural collaboration involving 16"
"""The Electric Company"" (2009–2010) and ""Do No Harm"" (2013). He hosted ""Saturday Night Live"" for the first time in 2016 and earned his first Emmy award nomination for acting. Among other film work, Miranda contributed music and vocals for a scene in """" (2015), wrote music and songs in the animated musical ""Moana"" (2016), which nabbed him nominations for the Best Original Song Academy Award and Golden Globe for the song ""How Far I'll Go"" and starred as Jack in the musical fantasy ""Mary Poppins Returns"" (2018), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor"
"""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"","
"musicals: ""Guys and Dolls""; ""Finian's Rainbow"";""My Fair Lady""; ""The Music Man""; ""Kiss Me, Kate""; ""Sweet Charity"" and Stephen Sondheim's legendary ""Follies"" which was recorded at a Gala concert at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane which Sondheim attended. All-star casts for these recordings included: John Barrowman, Tom Conti, Mary Carew, Anita Dobson, Jim Dale, Janie Dee, Marilyn Hill Smith, Bonnie Langford, Julia Migenes, Julia McKenzie, Ron Moody, Donna McKechnie, Claire Moore, Milo O'Shea, Denis Quilley and Elizabeth Seal. For NDR Hanover he recorded Bernstein's ""Candide"" and ""West Side Story"" with the NDR Philharmonic and Principal artists of Hanover Opera. Sutherland was"
"his additions to the score. He is also the lyricist of the theme song ""Loss Of Love"", excerpt from the 1970 Italian drama film ""Sunflower"" and composed by Henry Mancini. Merrill's other Broadway credits include ""Take Me Along"" (1959), ""Carnival!"" (1961), ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" (1966), ""Henry, Sweet Henry"" (1967), ""Sugar"" (1972) (reworked as ""Some Like It Hot"" for a 1992 production in London's West End starring Tommy Steele and a 2002-03 United States national tour starring Tony Curtis as Osgood Fielding, Jr.), and ""The Red Shoes"" (1993). He wrote the book and lyrics for the musical ""Prettybelle"" (1971), which closed"
"His best known role was in the movies ""Gremlins"" and """" as Murray Futterman. He appeared in ""Pulp Fiction"" as Monster Joe, but his scene and a few others were deleted because of the length of the film. He also appeared in Rod Stewart's music video for the song ""Infatuation"" in 1984, with Mike Mazurki and Kay Lenz. His television credits include """"Police Squad (1980s crime spoof series with Leslie Nielson) ""V: The Final Battle"" as Dan Pascal, three seasons as the generous bartender Lou Mackie on ""Fame"", and appearances on """" in the season 1 episode ""The Big Goodbye"""
"Me"" was presented via BroadwayHD live stream, marking the first time a Broadway show had ever been broadcast live. The historic broadcast was screened in cinemas on December 1, 2016. The characters and original cast: She Loves Me She Loves Me is a musical with a book by Joe Masteroff, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and music by Jerry Bock. The musical is the third adaptation of the 1937 play ""Parfumerie"" by Hungarian playwright Miklós László, following the 1940 James Stewart-Margaret Sullavan film ""The Shop Around the Corner"" and the 1949 Judy Garland-Van Johnson musical version ""In the Good Old Summertime""."
"catalogue, those well-known (""Maria"" from ""West Side Story"", ""There But For You Go I"" from Lerner & Loewe's ""Brigadoon"", ""The Cafe Song"" from ""Les Misérables"", ""Johanna"" from Stephen Sondheim's """"), rare (""Love Song"" from Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner's ""Love Life"", ""It Must Be So"" from Leonard Bernstein's ""Candide"", and ""Silly People"", which was cut from Sondheim's ""A Little Night Music""), and those in-between (""Finishing the Hat"" from ""Sunday in the Park with George"", ""You Do Something to Me"" from Cole Porter's ""Fifty Million Frenchmen"", ""Never Will I Marry"" from Frank Loesser's ""Greenwillow""). He has directed stage presentations of"
"of Music"", """", ""The Phantom of The Opera"", ""Cabaret"", ""I Love Lucy Live Onstage"", ""Cinderella"", ""The Book of Mormon"", ""Disney's Beauty and the Beast"", ""Sister Act"", ""Disney's Newsies"", ""Wicked"", ""We Will Rock You"", """", ""Once"", ""War Horse"", ""Evita"", performance by Blue Man Group, ""Mary Poppins"", performance by Stomp, ""Fela!"", the 25th anniversary production of ""Les Misérables"", ""Rock of Ages""; ""Memphis"", ""Priscilla, Queen of the Desert"", ""The Addams Family"", ""Shrek The Musical"", ""Million Dollar Quartet"", ""Come Fly Away"", ""The Lion King"", the 2009 revival of ""Hair"", ""In The Heights"", ""Jersey Boys"", ""Disney's Beauty and The Beast"", ""Dreamgirls"", ""RAIN – A Tribute"
"that the child also needs her. This reprise was omitted from the film version. Its popularity grew by virtue of renditions by several popular singers, including Shirley Bassey who reached number two for 5 weeks on the United Kingdom charts with the song. Bassey's recording became one of the highest sellers of 1960 staying on the UK charts for 30 weeks. The song has also been sung as ""As Long as She Needs Me"", when sung by a male singer. In 1963 Sammy Davis Jr. recorded the song, reaching #19 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart. As Long as He"
"We All?"" (1923), ""Spring Cleaning"" (1925), ""The Last of Mrs. Cheyney"" (1925, which ran for 514 performances), ""On Approval"" (1927), ""Canaries Sometimes Sing"" (1929) and ""Let Them Eat Cake"" (a.k.a. ""Half a Loaf"") among others. In 1946 he had a further West End hit with the murder melodrama ""But for the Grace of God"". His last play, ""The Way Things Go"", was written in 1949, more than 40 years after his first stage work and five years before his death in London from a heart attack. It was staged in 1950 with a cast including Kenneth More and Glynis Johns"
"were popular in the 1990s, such as ""Gypsy"" (1993), ""Cinderella"" (1997) and ""Annie"" (1999). Several made for TV musicals in the first decade of the 21st century were adaptations of the stage version, such as ""South Pacific"" (2001), ""The Music Man"" (2003) and ""Once Upon a Mattress"" (2005), and a televised version of the stage musical ""Legally Blonde"" in 2007. Additionally, several musicals were filmed on stage and broadcast on Public Television, for example ""Contact"" in 2002 and ""Kiss Me, Kate"" and ""Oklahoma!"" in 2003. The made-for-TV musical ""High School Musical"" (2006), and its several sequels, enjoyed particular success and"