"musical ""Guys and Dolls"" is based), on Thompson. In 1928, Thompson was involved in a high-stakes poker game that led to the shooting death of New York City crime boss Arnold ""the Brain"" Rothstein, then called the ""crime of the century"". The following year he testified in the trial of George ""Hump"" McManus, who was charged with Rothstein's murder. Thomas was born in southwestern Missouri but raised mainly on a farm in the Ozark Mountains a few miles from Rogers, Arkansas, 50 miles further south. His mother remarried (following desertion by his father Lee Thomas, a gambler himself). Thomas began"
"Titanic (musical) Titanic is a musical with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston and a book by Peter Stone that opened on Broadway in 1997. It swept the 1997 musical Tony Awards winning all five it was nominated for including the award for Best Musical and Best Score (Yeston's second for both). ""Titanic"" is set on the ocean liner RMS ""Titanic"" which sank on its maiden voyage on April 15, 1912. The discovery of the wreck of the RMS ""Titanic"" in 1985 attracted Yeston's interest in writing a musical about the famous disaster. ""What drew me to the project was"
"express hope that they will one day be reunited with their lost loved ones and abandoned dreams (""In Every Age/Finale""). Titanic (musical) Titanic is a musical with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston and a book by Peter Stone that opened on Broadway in 1997. It swept the 1997 musical Tony Awards winning all five it was nominated for including the award for Best Musical and Best Score (Yeston's second for both). ""Titanic"" is set on the ocean liner RMS ""Titanic"" which sank on its maiden voyage on April 15, 1912. The discovery of the wreck of the RMS ""Titanic"""
"frozen lake, where it bounced past the required distance on the ice. Thompson's partners in ""the hustling game"" included pool player Minnesota Fats, who considered Titanic a genius, ""the greatest action man of all time"". Thompson's one weakness, as he admitted, was betting on horse racing, where he lost millions of dollars during his life in failed bets. Blessed with extraordinary eyesight and hand-eye coordination, he was a skilled athlete, crack shot and self-taught golfer good enough to turn professional. Raised in a poor environment far from exclusive golf courses, Thomas did not take up golf seriously until he was"
"also involved, having voiced the Mâitre d'Bot. Adams himself also did voice acting for the game, voicing the Succ-U-Bus and Leovinus. The ambient music for the game was composed by Paul Wickens, who is also a member of Paul McCartney's touring band. Adams and Wickens were acquainted from school, but lost touch until Adams saw him performing with McCartney. Adams also wrote additional soundtrack himself, including the music in the Music Room puzzle, which was based on a tune he had written on the guitar years earlier. A novelization of the game titled ""Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic"" was written by"
"has no money. But it turns out to be real, because Steve is really still a millionaire. Tip-Toes Tip-Toes is a musical with a book by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and music by George Gershwin. It centers on a vaudeville act composed of Tip-Toes, her brother and her uncle, who try to pass her off as an aristocrat to snare a millionaire husband. Farcical complications ensue involving Tip-Toes' temporary amnesia and a marital infidelity subplot. The musical was modestly successful on Broadway in 1925 and in London in 1926. It was quickly adapted as a"
"Twenty to One Twenty to One was a British musical comedy first performed in 1935. The musical was a farce set around the world of horseracing. Bill Snibson (Lupino Lane), a bookmaker, joins an anti-gambling organisation in a fit of guilt. It ran for other four hundred performances at the Coliseum Theatre in the West End. Combined with provincial tours it ran for over a thousand shows. It was written by Louis Arthur Rose. The music was composed by Billy Mayerl. The lead character of Bill Snibson was such a success, that he was revived in 1937 for another musical"
"for the musical by Aidan Marsh. The ""Tevye"" of this parody is Professor Henry Armitage, the librarian at the fictional Miskatonic University. It is set in 1920s America. The action is set in the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts. The action opens in a manner reminiscent of ""Fiddler"", with a shoggoth on the roof of the Miskatonic library building. Armitage addresses the audience, speaking of all the strange things in Arkham and its horrific history. He then explains how a shoggoth can stay up on ""such a pointed roof"": Tentacles! (""Tentacles"") Back at Armitage's house, his three daughters, Prudence, Asenath"
"Boat"", later in 1927—as well as the subsequent introduction of George Gershwin's musicals that year and thought the early 30's -- the American musical became much more a dramatically cohesive ""musical play"". This form reached its maturity in the Rodgers and Hammerstein productions, beginning with ""Oklahoma!"" and culminating with ""South Pacific"". The captain of the Texas Rangers, Jim Stewart, is in San Lucar Mexico on the Rio Grande, in disguise in order to catch the notorious bandit Kinkajou. While there, he falls in love with Rita Ferguson, an Irish-American-Mexican girl who sings in the local hotel after being displaced, along"
"introduction, entitled ""Bangkok"", of Oriental style. This serves as the introduction to Act 2 in the original musical album, feeding into the first verse of ""One Night in Bangkok"" itself with an abrupt change in musical style. The main song has a pop styling, whose lyrics compare the Thai capital city and its nightlife with the game of chess. In the original concept album for the musical, Swedish artist Anders Glenmark sang in the chorus, whereas the verses are a rap originally performed by Murray Head as the American chess grandmaster, a character known as Frederick ""Freddie"" Trumper in the"
"from tin candy boxes to commemorative plates, whiskey jiggers, and even black mourning teddy bears. The latter are now hugely sought-after and examples have sold for over $135,000. In the Japanese spinoff series The Doraemons, it depicts a scene of RMS Titanic in a famous chapter, ""Titanic the Ghost ship"", in which Dora-the-Kid acts as Jack facing on Rose. In the anime movie , the fictional ocean liner Campania suffers a similar fate to Titanic including getting hit by an iceberg and splitting in half as well as lifeboats being filled by women and children first. In 1997, Titanic (Musical)"
"is never mentioned and the person who threatens Todd is in actual fact Danny O'Higgins, Pirelli's true name. In this version, he claims to have known the real Sweeney Todd and recognises Todd as an imposter. As it happens in the musical, Todd kills him. In the , he was played by Joaquin Romaguera. He was played by John Aron in the 1980 London production. In the 2005 Broadway revival staged by John Doyle, he was played by Donna Lynne Champlin. In Tim Burton's , he was portrayed by Sacha Baron Cohen. In the musical, Adolfo Pirelli sings two numbers"
"On the Twentieth Century On the Twentieth Century is a musical with book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Cy Coleman. Based partly on the 1930s film and play of the same name, the musical is part operetta, part farce and part screwball comedy. The story involves the behind-the-scenes relationship between Lily, a temperamental actress and Oscar, a bankrupt theatre producer. On a luxury train traveling from Chicago to New York in the 1920s, Oscar tries to cajole the glamorous Hollywood star into playing the lead in his new, but not-yet-written drama, and perhaps to"
"one point Norman Mushari Jr. visits the mansion of the Rumfoords in Newport. The Rumfoords figure in many of Vonnegut's short stories and novels, notably in ""The Sirens of Titan"". Diana Moon Glampers shares the name of the Handicapper General in Vonnegut's story ""Harrison Bergeron"" but no other characteristics. Noyes Finnerty, the center of the immortal 1933 Noah's Rosewater Memorial High School Basketball Team, shares similar anarchistic and anti-social tendencies to Ed Finnerty of ""Player Piano"". In 1979, the novel was adapted into a stage musical with a book and lyrics by Howard Ashman, music by Alan Menken, and additional"
"with Bragg collaborating with Howard Goodall. The musical has been refined over time, including a new song ""Day Follows Day"" which was introduced for the 2003 revival at the Salisbury Playhouse. It features characters John and Emily Tallentire, and two periods in their lives. The first opens with a Hiring Fair, where John is employed by Pennington, a local farmer. Emily also has an affair with Pennington's son, Jackson. John finds out while on a hunting trip with his brother, Isaac, and returns and knocks out Jackson. Emily is torn between the two men. Act 2 begins with May and"
"(Mildred Floyd), and Hazel Wright (Aloha). Allen Kearns would eventually play the role of Lee Loring. Music by Monte Carlo and Alma M. Sanders; lyrics by Howard E. Johnson (Unless otherwise noted) Tangerine (musical) Tangerine is a musical with music by Monte Carlo and Alma M. Sanders, lyrics by Howard Johnston, about three men jailed for not paying alimony, written by Philip Bartholomae and Guy Bolton. The piece premiered on Broadway at the Casino Theatre in 1921, running for 361 performances, one of two hits from the season (the other being ""Shuffle Along""). Dick Owens gets jailed with his three"
"of John Jacob Astor investigates whether the woman is a genuine survivor from 1912, somehow projected forward through time, or is part of some bizarre hoax. More recently the British playwrights Stewart Love and Michael Fieldhouse have written plays (""Titanic"" (1997) and ""The Song of the Hammers"" (2002) respectively) that address the often-neglected aspect of the views and experiences of the men who built the ""Titanic"". There have also been a number of dance and multimedia productions. The Canadian choreographer Cornelius Fischer-Credo devised a dance work called ""The Titanic Days"" which, in turn, was adapted for the title track of"
"I Salonisti I Salonisti is a chamber music ensemble, best known for performing as the ship's band in the 1997 James Cameron film ""Titanic"". Founded in 1981 with the idea of specialising in ""salon"" music (background music played for passengers in ocean liners), I Salonisti performs both serious and light chamber music from various periods, countries and musical styles. Its repertoire includes original compositions and new arrangements of traditional classical works, as well as popular music of the past and dance music from around the world. In concert, I Salonisti builds its programmes around specific themes, and the music is"
"Titanic Records. Unfortunately, Otto is actually a bookie whose orders are a system for betting on horses. Unwittingly, Ella changes orders for the supposedly incorrect Beethoven's Tenth Symphony, Opus 6, not realizing she is changing ""bets"". Although the police begin to assume that Susanswerphone might be a front for an escort service, the plot ends happily, with Jeff proposing, and her wacky subscribers coming to thank her. Music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green Judy Holliday and Jean Stapleton reprised their stage roles for the film. Dean Martin took over the male leading role, and the"
"In Trousers In Trousers is a musical, which premiered Off-Broadway in 1979, with a book, lyrics, and music by William Finn. The one-act musical centers on Marvin, who has a wife (Trina) and a son (Jason). He recalls the past relationships he shared with, among others, his high school sweetheart and Miss Goldberg, his English teacher who let him play Christopher Columbus in the school play, and then reveals he prefers to be with men. Torn between his natural inclination and his desire not to upset his family life as he knows it, Marvin ultimately makes the decision he feels"
"In Trousers In Trousers is a musical, which premiered Off-Broadway in 1979, with a book, lyrics, and music by William Finn. The one-act musical centers on Marvin, who has a wife (Trina) and a son (Jason). He recalls the past relationships he shared with, among others, his high school sweetheart and Miss Goldberg, his English teacher who let him play Christopher Columbus in the school play, and then reveals he prefers to be with men. Torn between his natural inclination and his desire not to upset his family life as he knows it, Marvin ultimately makes the decision he feels"
"Tangerine (musical) Tangerine is a musical with music by Monte Carlo and Alma M. Sanders, lyrics by Howard Johnston, about three men jailed for not paying alimony, written by Philip Bartholomae and Guy Bolton. The piece premiered on Broadway at the Casino Theatre in 1921, running for 361 performances, one of two hits from the season (the other being ""Shuffle Along""). Dick Owens gets jailed with his three friends, he for a brawl and his friends for not paying alimony. Owens is visited in jail by Shirley Dalton, the girl he loves. She has decided not to marry him until"
"climb. This term was ""derived from a contemptuous description by John Adams"". Prior to the musical's release, both Hamilton and Burr were best known for their infamous duel, in which Burr fatally shot Hamilton. In the opening number, Burr himself acknowledges this, essentially giving away the ending. Thus, like the musical ""Titanic"", the story becomes more about the journey than the destination. ""The Atlantic"" notes that the musical's opening question ""How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence, impoverished, in squalor grow up"
"was a familiar character to most Victorians. Sondheim’s musical was, in fact, based on Christopher Bond’s 1973 spooky melodrama, which introduced a psychological background to Todd’s crimes. In Bond's reincarnation of the character, Todd was the victim of a ruthless judge who raped his young wife and exiled him to Australia. Sondheim first conceived of a musical version of the story in 1973, after he went to see Bond's ghoulish take on the story at Theatre Royal Stratford East. Bond's sophisticated plot and language significantly elevated the lurid nature of the tale. Sondheim once noted, “It had a weight to"
"crowd. On 14 April 2012, the Victoria Theatre played host to a special production of ""Titanic"" performed by the Halifax Amateur Operatic Society. To mark the centennial of the sinking of the ship, the final performance of the run began at 11.40 p.m. – 100 years to the minute the ""Titanic"" hit the iceberg. Westlife lead vocalist Shane Filan played at the theatre as a solo artist in 2017. The annual pantomime is a big event for the theatre, produced by Coventry-based production company Imagine Theatre and written by the creative team behind The Tweenies. Recent pantomimes include Cinderella, Sleeping"
"the gambler Gaylord Ravenal fell through when Columbo was killed that year in a shotgun accident, and production of the film was rescheduled. The film, with several members of the original Broadway cast, began principal photography in late 1935 and was released in 1936. In addition to the songs retained from the stage production, Kern and Hammerstein wrote three additional songs for the film. Two of them were performed in spots previously reserved for songs from the stage production. The musical's story spans about 40 years, from the late 1880s to the late 1920s. Magnolia Hawks is an 18-year-old on"
"(Larry Linville) as ""Mr. Ravenal"" during a poker game after Frank admits to being inexperienced at gambling. Gaylord Ravenal Gaylord Ravenal is the leading male character in Edna Ferber's novel ""Show Boat"", in the famous Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical play of the same name based on the novel, and in the films made from it. He is a compulsive riverboat gambler, and he becomes leading man of the show boat Cotton Blossom at the same time that Magnolia Hawks, the captain's daughter, becomes the leading lady. In the novel, this happens after several of the company's leading men and"
"Johnny Thompson Johnny Thompson (born c. 1934) is a Polish-American comedian and Las Vegas illusionist who performs under the stage name The Great Tomsoni with his wife, Pamela Hayes. They have a comedic slapstick act with the well-dressed Thompson and his gum-popping assistant, Pam, performing illusions while enduring a series of mishaps. Within the magician community, Tomsoni is considered a virtuoso, widely known as a mentor and teacher of magic, and a creator of tricks, as opposed to simply a performer. He has worked behind the scenes with magicians such as Penn and Teller, Lance Burton, Criss Angel and Mat"
"Laurence Naismith Laurence Naismith (born Lawrence Johnson; 14 December 19085 June 1992) was an English actor. He made numerous film and television appearances, including starring roles in the musical films ""Scrooge"" (1970) and the children's ghost film ""The Amazing Mr Blunden"" (1972). He also had memorable rôles as Captain Edward Smith of the RMS Titanic in ""A Night to Remember"" (1958), the First Sea Lord in ""Sink the Bismarck!"" (1960), and Argus in ""Jason and the Argonauts"" (1963). Naismith was born as Lawrence Johnson in Thames Ditton, Surrey, in 1908. He attended All Saints Choir School, Margaret Street, London and"
"Player'. This is a joke based on the perception that bass players are often unknown and unappreciated. Embry would later provide his own take on the character's real name: ""I just said my name was Tobias, because he’s ""such"" a Tobias. You just take the vowels out [and it’s T.B.] His nickname was Toby, but his mom calls him Tobias. And his last name actually was Player, because he was a player, dude! That carousel ride with the Chantrellines? Total player."" Some music was written for the film by Lee Hartney from The Smith Street Band but didn't make the"
"mere Titanic joke. When the wife's conduct drives the husband from home, she acts upon 2. Solomon of a suggestion to bring him back—nothing less than to tell him he is a father. To carry out the deception, she decides to get an infant from a hospital. Miss Mayo frankly announces that the notion for the farce came to her from a newspaper clipping which said that there are, in Chicago, three thousand husbands devotedly fondling adopted babies that they imagine are their own. Aggie, the best friend of the young wife, conceived the scheme, and her husband, Jimmy Jinks,"
"Norma Terris Norma Terris (November 13, 1904, Columbus, Kansas – November 15, 1989, Lyme, Connecticut) was an American musical theatre star. Her mother, a singer, named her after the heroine of Bellini's opera, ""Norma"". Born Norma Allison Cook, she was acclaimed for her adroit impersonations of popular public figures, which she had performed in Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies, but may be best known for having originated the roles of Magnolia Hawks and her daughter Kim (as an adult) in the original Broadway production of ""Show Boat"" in 1927. She reprised her role in the first New York revival of the show"
"Titanic (play) Titanic is a one-act play written by Christopher Durang. The play was initially presented at the Yale School of Drama in 1974. The play takes place on the RMS ""Titanic"", called an ""outrageous tale of sex and seduction aboard the titular ship"" by Jackson R. Bryer (professor of English at the University of Maryland) and Mary C. Hartig. The play was presented in a workshop in 1973 at the American Place Theatre. It was then performed at the Yale School of Drama, Yale Experimental Theatre, in May 1974. Directed by Peter Mark Shifter, the cast featured Kate McGregor"