"about men's treatment of women, instead indulging in nostalgia. A film version of the musical was made in 1956, starring Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones. It follows the musical's story fairly closely, although a prologue, set in the Starkeeper's heaven, was added. The film was released only a few months after the release of the film version of ""Oklahoma!"" It garnered some good reviews, and the soundtrack recording was a best seller. As the same stars appeared in both pictures, however, the two films were often compared, generally to the disadvantage of ""Carousel"". Thomas Hischak, in ""The Rodgers and Hammerstein"
"a British musical with music by Julian Slade and lyrics by Dorothy Reynolds and Julian Slade. It premiered in the UK at the Theatre Royal, Bristol, in June 1954, and transferred to the Vaudeville Theatre in London on 5 August 1954. One of its songs, ""The Time of My Life"", includes the lyrics, ""We're young and we're green as the leaf on the tree / For these are our salad days."" In the 1987 Joel and Ethan Coen film ""Raising Arizona"", Nicolas Cage as H.I. “Hi” McDunnough uses the expression twice in the first few minutes of the film. Speaking"
"until 1969. After a long absence from the catalogue, Decca Broadway reissued the complete album on CD (again paired with ""Babes"") in 2002. Also in 1945, RCA Victor issued an album based on the hit Broadway revival but using studio singers (and Al Goodman's orchestra) instead of the Broadway cast. These eight highlights were issued on Lp by RCA Victor (1951) and on their budget label RCA Camden (1958) but have been unavailable in any format since 1960. A Capitol album starring Gordon MacRae was issued as part of a series of recordings based on MacRae's popular Railroad Hour program,"
"Billy's passport problems and declares Moon ""harmless."" Moon indignantly pockets Oakleigh's check and refuses to return it. The musical had a tryout in Colonial Theatre (Boston), before opening on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre on November 21, 1934. It ran for 420 performances, becoming the fourth longest-running musical of the 1930s, despite the impact of the Great Depression on Broadway patrons' disposable income. Directed by Howard Lindsay with choreography by Robert Alton and sets by Donald Oenslager, it starred Ethel Merman as Reno Sweeney, William Gaxton as Billy Crocker and Victor Moore as Moonface Martin. Charles B. Cochran, a British"
"dozen backstage musicals, often playing himself; several of these were written and directed by a young Blake Edwards. The films were: ""Make Believe Ballroom"" – Columbia, 1949; ""When You’re Smiling"" – Columbia, 1950; ""Sunny Side Of The Street"" – Columbia, 1951; ""Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder"" – Columbia, 1952; ""Bring Your Smile Along"" – Columbia, 1955; ""He Laughed Last"" – Columbia, 1956; and ""Meet Me in Las Vegas"" – MGM, 1956. The latter, a big budget MGM musical starring Cyd Charisse, features Laine performing ""Hell Hath No Fury"". His films were very popular in the United Kingdom, but this success failed"
"portrayed Christopher Columbus in the United States premiere of Darius Milhaud's ""Christophe Colomb"" at Carnegie Hall. In 1955, he portrayed Olin Blitch in the world premiere of Carlisle Floyd's ""Susannah"" at Florida State University opposite Phyllis Curtin in the title role. In 1956 he played the role of Saul in the United States premiere of Milhaud's ""David"" at the Hollywood Bowl, opposite Herva Nelli. In 1944 his son, the celebrated cellist Lynn Harrell, was born. From 1945 to 1956 Harrell taught voice at The Juilliard School and from 1957 to 1960 he taught at Southern Methodist University. In 1954 he"
"""The Boy Friend"" in 1954. Her additional New York theatre credits include taking over as Dorothy Brock in the original Broadway production of ""42nd Street"" and performing the revue ""Side by Side by Sondheim"" with Julia McKenzie and David Kernan, for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featued Actress in a Musical. She received a second Tony nomination for the musical ""King of Hearts"". In London, Martin starred with Paul Scofield and James Kenney in ""Expresso Bongo"" at the Saville Theatre. In 1959, she had also appeared in ""The Crooked Mile"". Also in West End, she"
"L-485 (10"" LP) and FBF-485 (2 EP Box-Set)]. The Capitol Records album was released early in 1954, and featured eight of the songs from the Fein/Cahn songwriting team. The film's stars Jane Powell and Gordon MacRae are the featured vocalists. George Greeley conducted the orchestra and chorus. The album was re-issued and released on CD in 2006; it contained 12 more songs by MacRae. While their submarine is docked in New York City, three sailors on liberty invest the money they've earned at sea in a Broadway musical and its up-and-coming star. Choirboy Jones (Gordon MacRae) carries a gunnysack stuffed"
"and Bill Dees The track, ""Rollin' On"", was covered on the 33 record album ""Famous Western Film Melodies"" by the Prague Radio Dance Orchestra - ARTIA SUPRAPHON 1 13 1788. The Fastest Guitar Alive The Fastest Guitar Alive is a 1967 American musical comedy film directed by Michael D. Moore and starring singer Roy Orbison in his only starring role as an actor. A musical western, the story is set near the end of the American Civil War, with Orbison portraying a Southern spy with a bullet-shooting guitar given the task of robbing gold bullion from the United States Mint"
"began featuring the quartet regularly on his radio show. In February 1957, the Buffalo Bills competed on ""Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts"", won first honors, and received the essential invitation to perform on Godfrey's morning show for the rest of the week. Later that year, Willson finished his new musical, ""The Music Man"", which featured a barbershop quartet in the plot. Willson suggested the Bills come to New York City and audition for the show. They were immediately accepted, but joining the musical meant they would all have to quit their jobs in Buffalo and relocate to New York City. In"
"planned to write the musical. Herman Levin would serve as producer, and rehearsals were scheduled to begin in November 1954. However, later that year, Levin announced a musical version of George Bernard Shaw's ""Pygmalion"", by Lerner and Loewe. Although work was supposed to continue on the Lane–Lerner ""Li'l Abner"", this version never appeared, and ""My Fair Lady"", Lerner and Loewe's adaptation of ""Pygmalion"", opened in 1956, becoming the hit musical of the decade. In 1955, Norman Panama and Melvin Frank announced a ""Li'l Abner"" musical to open on Broadway in 1956, followed by a film of the musical. The music"
"mystical Scottish village, directed by Robert Lewis with choreography by Agnes de Mille. The musical ran on Broadway from March 1947 to July 1948 and won the 1947 New York Drama Critics' Circle award as Best Musical. It was followed in 1951 by the less successful Gold Rush story ""Paint Your Wagon"". In 1956, Lerner and Loewe's ""My Fair Lady"" was produced on Broadway. Their adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's ""Pygmalion"", with the leads, Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle, being played originally by Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews, was a huge hit on Broadway and London. The musical won the"
"for Chess, ""I Would Hate to See You Go"" (1956). Among his more famous work, he played on Chuck Berry's 1957 hit single ""School Days"" as well as on other Berry recording including ""Brown Eyed Handsome Man"" (1956), ""Roll Over Beethoven"" (1956), ""Too Much Monkey Business"" (1956), the calypso flavored, ""Havana Moon"" (1956), ""Rock and Roll Music"" (1957), ""Sweet Little Sixteen"" (1957), ""Reelin' and Rockin'"" (1957), ""Guitar Boogie"" (1957), ""Memphis, Tennessee"" (1958), ""Sweet Little Rock and Roller"" (1958), ""Little Queenie"" (1958), ""Almost Grown"" (1959), ""Back in the U.S.A."" (1959) and ""Let It Rock"" (1959). Below rejoined the Myers brothers for"
"was one of the first musicals to contain a tragic plot about an antihero; it also contained an extended ballet that was crucial to the plot, and several extended musical scenes containing both sung and spoken material, as well as dance. The 1956 film version of ""Carousel"", made in CinemaScope 55, again starred Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones, the same leads as the film version of ""Oklahoma!"" ""Carousel"" is also unique among the Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals for not having an overture; both the stage and film versions began with the familiar ""Carousel Waltz"". This music was included in John"
"and choreographed by Herbert Ross, opened on January 23, 1958, at The Broadway Theatre, where it ran for 60 performances. The cast included Mindy Carson, Steve Forrest, Jack Warden, Barbara McNair, William Hickey, and Brock Peters. Journalist Dorothy Kilgallen and her husband Richard Kollmar co-produced the short-run musical, along with Albert W. Selden. Kilgallen, very visible due to her appearances as a panelist on network TV's ""What's My Line"", and her fellow panelists made mention of ""The Body Beautiful"" on various episodes of the game show during this time period. In fact, during one live telecast of the Sunday-night staple"
"recording of ""The Student Prince"" (with Robert Rounseville as the Prince and Dorothy Kirsten as the barmaid Kathie) in 1952, as well as what was then the most complete recording of ""Oklahoma!"" that same year. The ""Oklahoma!"" album used Robert Russell Bennett's original orchestrations and starred Nelson Eddy as the cowboy Curly. For RCA Victor, Engel conducted studio recordings of ""Carousel"" in 1955 (with Robert Merrill as Billy Bigelow, Patrice Munsel as Julie Jordan, and Florence Henderson as Carrie); and ""Show Boat"" in 1956 (with a very politically incorrect Merrill singing the roles of both Ravenal and the black stevedore"
"Sepia Cinderella Sepia Cinderella is a 1947 American musical race film directed by Arthur H. Leonard. The film is notable for musical numbers by vocalists Billy Daniels and Sheila Guyse, and for a brief guest appearance by former child star Freddie Bartholomew, who is onscreen as himself for five minutes, telling gags to recharge his post-war career. It also marks the big screen debut of Sidney Poitier, as an uncredited night club extra. The musical follows a young woman, Barbara (played by Guyse), in love with a good and kind bandleader, Bob (portrayed by Daniels), who seems oblivious to her"
"April 14, 1937 and ran for 289 performances. In the original play, a character named Billie Smith (played by Mitzi Green) sings the song to Valentine ""Val"" LaMar (played by Ray Heatherton). In the song, Billie pokes fun at some of Valentine's characteristics, but ultimately affirms that he makes her smile and that she doesn't want him to change (the song is often sung by a man to a woman, though to say that a woman's looks are ""laughable"" is anomalous). The song first hit the charts in 1945, performed by Hal McIntyre with vocals by Ruth Gaylor. It only"
"man's musical ability and his ability to fit it to his own life."" In 1950, Michael Curtiz directed the film ""Young Man with a Horn"", starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, and Doris Day. In this version, in which Hoagy Carmichael also plays a role, the Rick Martin character lives. In ""Blackboard Jungle"", a 1955 film starring Glenn Ford and Sidney Poitier, Beiderbecke's music is briefly featured, but as a symbol of cultural conservatism in a nation on the cusp of the rock and roll revolution. Brendan Wolfe, the author of ""Finding Bix"", spoke of Beiderbecke's lasting influence on Davenport, Iowa:"
"in director Alan Clarke's snooker musical ""Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire"". Michael Brooke stated that Payne gave the ""stand-out performance"" in the film. and ""MS London"" stated that Payne 'is a charismatic presence, with a capable voice, who is perfectly cast as The One'. In 1986, both Payne and Berkoff appeared in Julien Temple's musical ""Absolute Beginners"" . Payne played a psychotic ""pompous and pathetic racist"" named Flikker, who participated in the 1958 Notting Hill race riots. One reviewer argued that Payne was ""the only actor to walk off ""Absolute Beginners"" with his reputation not only intact"
"My Funny Valentine ""My Funny Valentine"" is a show tune from the 1937 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart musical ""Babes in Arms"" in which it was introduced by former child star Mitzi Green. The song became a popular jazz standard, appearing on over 1300 albums performed by over 600 artists. In 2015 it was announced that the Gerry Mulligan quartet featuring Chet Baker's version of the song was inducted into the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry for the song's ""cultural, artistic and/or historical significance to American society and the nation’s audio legacy"". Mulligan also recorded the song with his"
"Robin McNamara, Heather MacRae (daughter of Gordon MacRae and Sheila MacRae), Eddie Rambeau, Vicki Sue Robinson, Beverly Bremers, Dale Soules and Kim Milford. The ""Hair"" team soon became embroiled in a lawsuit with the organizers of the Tony Awards. After assuring producer Michael Butler that commencing previews by April 3, 1968, would assure eligibility for consideration for the 1968 Tonys, the New York Theatre League ruled ""Hair"" ineligible, moving the cutoff date to March 19. The producers brought suit but were unable to force the League to reconsider. At the 1969 Tonys, ""Hair"" was nominated for Best Musical and Best"
"own singing. It was one of the biggest location film productions of the 1950s, shot near Nogales, Arizona with a crew of 325 people and some 70 trucks. Steiger portrayed a disturbed, emotionally isolated version of Jud, which television channel Turner Classic Movies (TCM) believed brought a ""complexity to the character that went far beyond the stock musical villain"". Steiger observed that James Dean, who auditioned for the role that went to Gordon MacRae, was a ""nice kid absorbed by his own ego, so much so that it was destroying him"", which he thought led to his death. Dean reportedly"
"Broadway on November 20, 1956 at the Lyceum Theatre. Walter Pidgeon portrayed Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, while George Grizzard played Angie Duke. The production ran for 271 performances, closing on July 13, 1957. Walt Disney acquired the rights to the play in the early 1960s, but he had no intent of making it into a musical at first. After noting the collective box office success of ""Mary Poppins"", ""My Fair Lady"" and ""The Sound of Music"", the first of which he actually produced, the film's original producer, Bill Walsh, decided to make the film into a musical. Afterwards, Walt reassigned"
"major revivals of the musical have been rare in recent decades, as the musical's treatment of bigotry against blacks in the American South has become dated, in 2004 the Irish Repertory Theatre staged a well-received off-Broadway production starring Melissa Errico, Johnathan Freeman, and Malcolm Gets. In 1954, an animated film adaptation began production, directed by John Hubley. The crew included Art Babbit, Bill Tytla and Paul Julian. Among the cast were Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Louis Armstrong, Barry Fitzgerald, Jim Backus and David Burns plus David Wayne and Ella Logan from the original Broadway production. The era's McCarthyism"
"Tin"", he appeared in such children's programs as ""Adventures of Superman"" (as Jim Carson in the 1954 episode ""Around the World with Superman""), ""Sky King"", and ""The Lone Ranger"". He made two guest appearances on ABC-TV's ""Ozark Jubilee"" in 1955 and 1957. In 1959, Brown appeared as Andy Clinton in two episodes of the ABC ""Walt Disney Presents"" miniseries titled ""Moochie of the Little League"", starring Kevin Corcoran and Russ Conway. In 1960, Brown appeared in the NBC series, ""Laramie"", as Lon MacRae in the episode ""Strange Company"". From 1962-66, he appeared three times in different roles in another NBC"
"the soundtrack record. Shirley Bassey recorded the song for the 1959 Studio Cast Album of ""Show Boat"". The song was a regular part of Dorothy Lamour's repertoire. Lamour frequently sang it on radio and in concert and recorded it in 1958. Bill (song) ""Bill"" is a song heard in Act II of Kern and Hammerstein's classic 1927 musical ""Show Boat"". The song was written by Kern and P.G. Wodehouse for their 1917 musical ""Oh, Lady! Lady!!"" for Vivienne Segal to perform, but withdrawn because it was considered too melancholy for that show. However, when Kern and Hammerstein were at work"
"Bill Shirley William Jesse ""Bill"" Shirley (July 6, 1921 – August 27, 1989) was an American actor and tenor/lyric baritone singer who later became a Broadway theatre producer. He is perhaps best known as the speaking and singing voice of Prince Phillip in Walt Disney's 1959 animated classic ""Sleeping Beauty"" and for dubbing Jeremy Brett's singing voice in the 1964 film version of ""My Fair Lady"". William Shirley was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on July 6, 1921. His father, Luther James Shirley, was a funeral director for Shirley Brothers Mortuaries. His mother, Inez Shirley (née Baldwin), was a well-known professional"
"perfect musical comedy"". On November 3, 1955 the film version of the musical was released, starring Marlon Brando as Sky, Frank Sinatra as Nathan Detroit, and Jean Simmons as Sarah, with Vivian Blaine reprising her role as Adelaide. The film was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and produced by Samuel Goldwyn. Three new songs, written by Frank Loesser, were added to the film: ""Pet Me Poppa""; ""A Woman in Love""; and ""Adelaide"", which was written specifically for Sinatra. Five songs from the stage musical were omitted from the movie: ""A Bushel and a Peck"", ""My Time of Day"", ""I've Never"
"of Shaw's original play, the brilliance of the lyrics, and Loewe's well-integrated score."" A sampling of praise from critics, excerpted from a book form of the musical, published in 1956. The reception from Shavians was more mixed, however. Eric Bentley, for instance, called it ""a terrible treatment of Mr. Shaw's play, [undermining] the basic idea [of the play]"", even though he acknowledged it as ""a delightful show"". Sources: BroadwayWorld TheatreWorldAwards Sources: BroadwayWorld Drama Desk Source: Olivier Awards Source: BroadwayWorld Source: Drama Desk Source: Olivier Awards An Oscar-winning film version was made in 1964, directed by George Cukor and with Harrison"
"Singing"" in 1945. During the late 1950s and 1960s, Merrill was believed to have intentionally been marketed as a replacement for Grace Kelly, and in 1959 she was proclaimed ""Hollywood's new Grace Kelly"". Merrill's film credits included ""Desk Set"" (1957), ""A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed"" (1958), ""Don't Give Up the Ship"" (1959), ""Operation Petticoat"" (1959, with Cary Grant, who had been married to her cousin, Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton), ""The Sundowners"" (1960), ""Butterfield 8"" (1960), ""The Young Savages"" (1961), ""The Courtship of Eddie's Father"" (1963), ""I'll Take Sweden"" (1965), ""The Greatest"" (1977), ""A Wedding"" (1978), ""Just Tell"
"28, 1949, p. 15. Retrieved on December 21, 2010.</ref> The musical premiered in the West End, London, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on June 7, 1950. The production was restaged by Jerome Whyte, with a cast that included Stephen Douglass (Billy), Iva Withers (Julie) and Margot Moser (Carrie). ""Carousel"" ran in London for 566 performances, remaining there for over a year and a half. ""Carousel"" was revived in 1954 and 1957 at City Center, presented by the New York City Center Light Opera Company. Both times, the production featured Barbara Cook, though she played Carrie in 1954 and Julie"
"recognition as a Shakespearean actor at the Bristol Old Vic and with the English Stage Company, before making his television debut in 1954. He played a soldier in an episode of ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"" in 1954. He was based at the Bristol Old Vic from 1956 to 1958, appearing in productions of ""King Lear"" (1956), ""The Recruiting Officer"" (1956), ""Major Barbara"" (1956), ""Othello"" (1956), and ""The Slave of Truth"" (1956). He was Henry Higgins in ""Pygmalion"" (1957), Lysander in ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" (1957) , Uncle Gustve in ""Oh! My Papa!"" (1957), and Jimmy Porter in ""Look Back in Anger"""