"French accent, Peter Sellers. In the ""Happy Days"" Season 5 episode ""Be My Valentine"" (February 14, 1978), a then-18-year-old Scott Baio sang it as part of a series of musical numbers commemorating Valentine's Day. In the 1997 film ""Wag the Dog"", the song performed by Chevalier is used as backdrop for an election campaign ad. Thank Heaven for Little Girls ""Thank Heaven for Little Girls"" is a 1957 song written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe and associated with its original performer, Maurice Chevalier. It opened and closed the 1958 film ""Gigi"". Alfred Drake performed the song in the"
"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"
"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"
"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,"
"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"
"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."
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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,"
"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,"
"Night"". Closer to Heaven Closer to Heaven is a musical by Jonathan Harvey and Pet Shop Boys. It was premiered in May 2001 at the Arts Theatre in London, opening to mixed reviews, and ran until 13 October 2001. A second production of ""Closer to Heaven"" was premiered in Australia in 2005. The story is narrated by retired rock icon and actress Billie Trix (Frances Barber), who otherwise has a fairly small part in the story. The opening number, ""My Night"", is sung by Billie and the rest of the cast, and is used to introduce the characters. Shell Christian"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"The Marvelous Wonderettes The Marvelous Wonderettes is a musical comedy with a book by Roger Bean. It has been played off-Broadway at the Westside Theatre in New York. The show, which uses pop songs from the 1950s and 1960s as a vehicle to tell its story, pays homage to the high school Songleader squads of the 50s. When called upon to perform at their senior prom as a last minute replacement, Springfield High Songleaders Betty Jean, Cindy Lou, Missy and Suzy, rally together to entertain their classmates in four-part harmony. The musical includes the songs ""Lollipop"", ""Dream Lover"", ""Stupid Cupid"","
"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"
"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"
"(1995) and (2011), ""Cinderella"" (1996), ""Bye Bye Birdie"" (1997), ""Oliver!"" (1998) and (2009), ""Guys and Dolls"" (1999), ""The Music Man"" (2000), ""Mame"" (2001), ""Grease"" (2003), ""Hello, Dolly!"" (2005), ""Damn Yankees"" (2006), ""West Side Story"" (2007), ""City of Angels"" (2008), ""Crazy for You"" (2012), ""Seussical"" (2013), ""Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"" (2015), ""Mary Poppins (musical) "" (2016) "" Shrek the Musical "" (2017), and "" The Little Mermaid (musical) "" (2018) East Rockaway High School East Rockaway Junior-Senior High School (often abbreviated ERHS) is a co-educational six-year secondary school in East Rockaway, New York, and the sole high school in"
"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"
"Follow the Girls Follow the Girls is a musical with a book by Guy Bolton, Eddie Davis and Fred Thompson and music and lyrics by Dan Shapiro, Milton Pascal, and Phil Charig. A major wartime hit in both New York City and London, its thin plot about a burlesque striptease queen who becomes the star attraction at the Spotlight, a servicemen's club in Great Neck, Long Island, serves as an excuse for a series of songs, dance numbers, and comedy routines. The Broadway production, produced by Albert Borde, conceived and directed by Harry Delmar and choreographed by Catherine Littlefield, opened"
"to such groundbreaking works as ""Show Boat"" (1927) and ""Oklahoma!"" (1943). Some of the most famous musicals through the decades that followed include ""West Side Story"" (1957), ""The Fantasticks"" (1960), ""Hair"" (1967), ""A Chorus Line"" (1975), ""Les Misérables"" (1985), ""The Phantom of the Opera"" (1986), ""Rent"" (1996), ""The Producers"" (2001), ""Wicked"" (2003) and ""Hamilton"" (2015). Musicals are performed around the world. They may be presented in large venues, such as big-budget Broadway or West End productions in New York City or London. Alternatively, musicals may be staged in smaller venues, such as fringe theatre, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, regional theatre, or community"
"Dreamgirls Dreamgirls is a Broadway musical, with music by Henry Krieger and lyrics and book by Tom Eyen. Based on the show business aspirations and successes of R&B acts such as The Supremes, The Shirelles, James Brown, Jackie Wilson, and others, the musical follows the story of a young female singing trio from Chicago, Illinois called ""The Dreams"", who become music superstars. Staged with a mostly African-American cast and originally starring Jennifer Holliday, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Loretta Devine, Ben Harney, Cleavant Derricks, Vondie Curtis-Hall, and Obba Babatundé, the musical opened on December 20, 1981, at the Imperial Theatre on Broadway."
"million dollars for the Hollywood Canteen. The film earned $2,503,000 domestically and $1,118,000 foreign. The song """"They're Either Too Young or Too Old"" by Arthur Schwartz (music) and Frank Loesser (lyrics) was nominated for an Academy Award for ""Best Music, Original Song"", but lost to ""You'll Never Know"" by Harry Warren and Mack Gordon from the film, ""Hello, Frisco, Hello"". Despite not winning the award, Kitty Kallen and the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra had a hit with the song. Thank Your Lucky Stars (film) Thank Your Lucky Stars is a 1943 American musical comedy film made by Warner Brothers as a"
"a Musical was ""Hello, Dolly!"". The John Gassner Award winner was Bess Wohl for ""Small Mouth Sounds"". The nominees included ""American Psycho"" and ""She Loves Me"" – 8; ""Bright Star"" and ""On Your Feet!"" – 7; ""Dear Evan Hansen"" – 6; ""Eclipsed"", ""Lazarus"", ""Long Day's Journey Into Night"" and ""Spring Awakening"" – 5; and ""The Humans"", ""A View From the Bridge"" and ""Waitress"" – 4. Multiple winners: ""She Loves Me"" – 4; Long Day’s Journey Into Night – 3. The Outstanding New Broadway Musical was ""Bright Star"", and the Outstanding New Broadway Play was ""The Humans""; Outstanding Revival of a"
"The Ingenues The Ingenues was a vaudeville style all-girl jazz band based in Chicago, which toured the United States and other countries from 1925 to 1937. Managed by William Morris, the group performed frequently for variety theater, vaudeville and picture houses, often billed as the opening stage show before double features. They headlined the Ziegfeld Follies of 1927, ""Glorifying the American Girl"", an act featuring 12 white baby grands as well as various combinations of brass bands, strings and woodwinds. The group specialized in jazz, Tin Pan Alley, light classical works and Dixieland. They were celebrated for their versatility as"
"girl, courted by an earl in disguise. During this period, Caryll also wrote the less successful ""The Little Cherub"" (1906). Many of Caryll's musicals were given in Paris, Vienna, and Budapest at a time when the English-language musicals were largely ignored on the continent, and he composed original scores for Paris (""S.A.R."", or ""Son altesse royale"", 1908) and Vienna (""Die Reise nach Cuba"", 1901). Caryll relocated to New York City in 1911, composing more than a dozen Broadway musicals, including ""The Pink Lady"" (1911, with Hugh Morton), ""Oh! Oh! Delphine!!!"" (1912), ""Chin-Chin"" (1914; including ""Ragtime Temple Bells""), ""Jack o'Lantern"" (1917),"
"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"
"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 Fred Thompson. Two songs were composed by Jerome Kern. The story is based on the farce ""Les Dominos roses"" by Alfred Hennequin and Alfred Delacour. The musical was produced by George Grossmith, Jr. and Edward Laurillard. It opened at the Shubert Theatre in New York on December 24, 1914. It then was produced at the Gaiety Theatre in London, opening on April 18, 1915 and running for a very successful 460 performances. Grossmith"
"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"