"find him suitable teachers, including Igor Stravinsky, but was unsuccessful. Finally, Porter enrolled at the Schola Cantorum in Paris, where he studied orchestration and counterpoint with Vincent d'Indy. Meanwhile, Porter's first big hit was the song ""Old-Fashioned Garden"" from the revue ""Hitchy-Koo"" in 1919. In 1920, he contributed the music of several songs to the musical ""A Night Out"". Marriage did not diminish Porter's taste for extravagant luxury. The Porter home on the rue Monsieur near Les Invalides was a palatial house with platinum wallpaper and chairs upholstered in zebra skin. In 1923, Porter came into an inheritance from his"
"Just One of Those Things (song) ""Just One of Those Things"" is a popular song written by Cole Porter for the 1935 musical ""Jubilee"". Porter had written the score for ""Jubilee"" while on an extended sea cruise in the early part of 1935: however, in September 1935 while he was visiting a friend's farm in Ohio with ""Jubilee""'s librettist Moss Hart, the latter mentioned that the play's second act required an additional song, and Porter had ""Just One of Those Things"" completed by the following morning (he had previously used the title for a song intended for but not featured"
"a Cole Porter medley on his farewell album, released on his 80th birthday. Shirley Bassey recorded the song in 1963 for her EP ""In Other Words..."". In 1958, Polly Bergen and guests Dick Van Dyke and Carol Haney performed ""Just One of Those Things"" on her short-lived NBC variety show, ""The Polly Bergen Show"". Just One of Those Things (song) ""Just One of Those Things"" is a popular song written by Cole Porter for the 1935 musical ""Jubilee"". Porter had written the score for ""Jubilee"" while on an extended sea cruise in the early part of 1935: however, in September"
"Something for the Boys Something for the Boys is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and a book by Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields. Produced by Mike Todd, the show opened on Broadway in 1943 and starred Ethel Merman in her fifth Cole Porter musical. Out of town tryouts began on December 18, 1942 at the Shubert Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts. The musical opened on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre on January 7, 1943 and closed on January 8, 1944 after 422 performances. It starred Ethel Merman (Blossom Hart), Bill Johnson (Rocky Fulton), Betty Garrett (Mary-Frances), Paula Laurence"
"representation of her in ""Merrily We Roll Along"" led Parker, once his Round Table compatriot, to despise him. She also was portrayed as ""Daisy Lester"" in Charles Brackett's 1934 novel ""Entirely Surrounded"". She is mentioned in the original introductory lyrics in Cole Porter's song ""Just One of Those Things"" from the 1935 Broadway musical ""Jubilee"", which have been retained in the standard interpretation of the song as part of the Great American Songbook. Parker is featured as a character in the novel ""The Dorothy Parker Murder Case"" by George Baxt (1984), in a series of ""Algonquin Round Table Mysteries"" by"
"to finish the show belongs to the exuberant Ethel Merman"". Something for the Boys Something for the Boys is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and a book by Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields. Produced by Mike Todd, the show opened on Broadway in 1943 and starred Ethel Merman in her fifth Cole Porter musical. Out of town tryouts began on December 18, 1942 at the Shubert Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts. The musical opened on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre on January 7, 1943 and closed on January 8, 1944 after 422 performances. It starred Ethel Merman (Blossom"
"""De-Lovely"". Other singers who have paid tribute to Porter include the Swedish pop music group Gyllene Tider, which recorded a song called ""Flickan i en Cole Porter-sång"" (""That Girl from the Cole Porter Song"") in 1982. He is referenced in the merengue song ""The Call of the Wild"" by David Byrne on his 1989 album ""Rei Momo"". He is also mentioned in the song ""Tonite It Shows"" by Mercury Rev on their 1998 album ""Deserter's Songs"". In 1965, Judy Garland performed a medley of Porter's songs at the 37th Academy Awards shortly after Porter's death. In 1980, Porter's music was"
"the show as much as any audience member. Russel Crouse commented, ""Cole's opening-night behaviour is as indecent as that of a bridegroom who has a good time at his own wedding."" ""Anything Goes"" was the first of five Porter shows featuring Merman. He loved her loud, brassy voice and wrote many numbers that displayed her strengths. ""Jubilee"" (1935), written with Moss Hart while on a cruise around the world, was not a major hit, running for only 169 performances, but it featured two songs that have since become standards, ""Begin the Beguine"" and ""Just One of Those Things"". ""Red, Hot"
"further productions he also directed operas for Chattanooga Symphony and Opera, Mobile Opera, Toledo Opera, Opera Omaha, Augusta Opera and Piedmont Opera. As a guest stage director and Visiting Artist, Cullinan has also staged various works at the Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Arts and the Opera Institute at Boston University. Cullinan has worked as theatre director for plays staged at the Eisenhower Theatre in Washington, D.C., Boston's Huntington Theatre, the Missouri Repertory Theatre and The Perry Street Theatre in New York City, where he directed ""Simply Cole Porter"" in 1994. In 1983 he directed a successful production of Oscar"
"forms the basis of several jazz compositions (contrafact), such as ""Hot House"" by Tadd Dameron What Is This Thing Called Love? ""What Is This Thing Called Love?"" is a 1929 popular song written by Cole Porter, for the musical ""Wake Up and Dream"". It was first performed by Elsie Carlisle in March 1929. The song has become a popular jazz standard and one of Porter's most often played compositions. ""Wake Up and Dream"" ran for 263 shows in London. The show was also noticed in New York, and the critics praised Tilly Losch's performance of the song. The show was"
"Another Op'nin', Another Show ""Another Op'nin', Another Show"" is the opening number of Cole Porter's 1948 musical ""Kiss Me, Kate"". Sung by a band of players performing a musical adaption of Shakespeare's ""The Taming of the Shrew"", the song has become regarded as a show business anthem on a level with ""That's Entertainment!"" (from ""The Band Wagon"") and ""There's No Business Like Show Business"" (from ""Annie Get Your Gun""). However, it was not included in the 1953 film version of the musical. Adelaide Hall, playing the role of Hattie, sang ""Another Op'nin', Another Show"" on the West-End stage (400 times)"
"The following were among contemporary releases: Jubilee (musical) Jubilee is a musical comedy with a book by Moss Hart and music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It premiered on Broadway in 1935 to rapturous reviews. Inspired by the recent silver jubilee of King George V of Great Britain, the story is of the royal family of a fictional European country. Several of its songs, especially ""Begin the Beguine"" and ""Just One of Those Things"", became independently popular and have become part of the American Songbook. The musical opened on Broadway in October 1935, in the midst of the Great Depression."
"1937, Porter was left disabled and in constant pain, but he continued to work. His shows of the early 1940s did not contain the lasting hits of his best work of the 1920s and '30s, but in 1948 he made a triumphant comeback with his most successful musical, ""Kiss Me, Kate"". It won the first Tony Award for Best Musical. Porter's other musicals include ""Fifty Million Frenchmen"", ""DuBarry Was a Lady"", ""Anything Goes"", ""Can-Can"" and ""Silk Stockings"". His numerous hit songs include ""Night and Day"", ""Begin the Beguine"", ""I Get a Kick Out of You"", ""Well, Did You Evah!"", ""I've"
"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"
"Jubilee (musical) Jubilee is a musical comedy with a book by Moss Hart and music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It premiered on Broadway in 1935 to rapturous reviews. Inspired by the recent silver jubilee of King George V of Great Britain, the story is of the royal family of a fictional European country. Several of its songs, especially ""Begin the Beguine"" and ""Just One of Those Things"", became independently popular and have become part of the American Songbook. The musical opened on Broadway in October 1935, in the midst of the Great Depression. It had strong reviews and was"
"What Is This Thing Called Love? ""What Is This Thing Called Love?"" is a 1929 popular song written by Cole Porter, for the musical ""Wake Up and Dream"". It was first performed by Elsie Carlisle in March 1929. The song has become a popular jazz standard and one of Porter's most often played compositions. ""Wake Up and Dream"" ran for 263 shows in London. The show was also noticed in New York, and the critics praised Tilly Losch's performance of the song. The show was produced on Broadway in December 1929; in the American rendition, ""What Is This Thing Called"
"a new London production of Noël Coward's operetta ""Bitter Sweet"". He later played the Phantom in ""Phantom of the Opera"" and Stine in ""City of Angels"" in London, as well as creating original roles such as 'Adam' in ""Children of Eden"". He recorded several concerts with the BBC Concert and Radio Orchestras, and was a regular vocalist on the BBC Radio 2 shows ""Songs From the Shows"" and ""Friday Night is Music Night"" in the 1980s. He was featured in the Cole Porter revue ""A Swell Party - A Celebration of Cole Porter"" (1992) at London's Vaudeville Theatre, singing ""Love"
"York, New York,"" and Bergen did a solo in a hansom cab to the tune of ""It's A Grand Night For Singing"". She and Bishop also performed ""East Side, West Side."" Peter Gennaro and his dancers performed ""Saturday Night In Central Park."" On May 17, Dick Van Dyke, Carol Haney, and Gennaro were the guests. Bergen sang ""That's Entertainment"", ""I'm In the Mood For Love"". Haney and Bergen performed a duet of ""The Way You Look Tonight"". Van Dyke, Haney and Bergen sang Cole Porter's ""Just One of Those Things"" and all guests joined the host to sing ""Side By"
"of sadness, but very subtle... Cole Porter lyrics are less sentimental than, say, Gershwin and more abrasive... Gershwin was the greater musician. But Cole was a better lyricist and I was more interested in lyrics than music."" He got the idea to make a musical that used only Cole Porter songs. When I heard the lyrics for ""I Loved Him"", with its reversal of emotion and wry lyric, he decided to use that as the finale and ""worked back from there"". Bogdanovich said another inspiration was the movies of Ernst Lubitsch with Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier such as ""One"
"more than moderate success at the box-office."" Perry Como, the magazine said, ""makes a good appearance before the cameras"" and his two songs were ""quite listenable and well sold."" Something for the Boys (film) Something for the Boys is a 1944 musical comedy film directed by Lewis Seiler. It stars Carmen Miranda, with support from Michael O'Shea, Vivian Blaine, Phil Silvers, Sheila Ryan and Perry Como. The screenplay was by Robert Ellis, Helen Logan and Frank Gabrielson, based on the 1943 Broadway Musical of the same name, starring Ethel Merman with Cole Porter's songs. The film's story revolves around the"
"Cole Porter had originally written for other musicals. The musical numbers in ""Aladdin"" included the following: The London stage production also included: ""There Must Be Someone For Me"" (from Mexican Hayride) ""Cherry Pies Ought to Be You"" (from Out of This World) ""I Am Loved"" (from Out of This World) ""Ridin' High"" (from Red, Hot and Blue!) In 1963, Barbra Streisand recorded one of the songs, ""Come to the Supermarket (In Old Peking),"" for ""The Barbra Streisand Album."" It was later recorded by John Inman for his first album ""Are You Being Served Sir?"" In 2012, as part of his"
"on Frank Harris' 1919 play ""Miracle of the Stigmata"", for which Chambers left school to avoid expulsion. (""The greater part of it is so plainly sacrilegious that it cannot be reproduced."") In 1929, Cole Porter's song ""After All, I'm Only a Schoolgirl"" references Harris and ""My Life and Loves"", in a tale about a girl who is learning about adult relationships from a private tutor. In 1936, Harris appeared as a character in the play ""Oscar Wilde"", by Leslie & Sewell Stokes, first produced at London's Gate Theatre Studio (1936) and later at the Fulton Theatre, New York, in 1938,"
"affected by the 1929 Wall Street crash, and the production ran for only 136 performances. From Porter's point of view, it was nonetheless a success, as his song ""What Is This Thing Called Love?"" became immensely popular. Porter's new fame brought him offers from Hollywood, but because his score for Paramount's ""The Battle of Paris"" was undistinguished, and its star, Gertrude Lawrence, was miscast, the film was not a success. Citron expresses the view that Porter was not interested in cinema and ""noticeably wrote down for the movies."" Still on a Gallic theme, Porter's last Broadway show of the 1920s"
"musical ""Silk Stockings"" (1957). Paree, Paree Paree, Paree is a 1934 black-and-white Vitaphone musical short starring Bob Hope and Dorothy Stone. Cole Porter wrote the lyrics and music for this musical comedy short. A wealthy man (Bob Hope) makes a bet with his friends that he could win a girl (Dorothy Stone) without her knowing of his riches. Four of the songs in this short were first used in Porter's 1929 Broadway musical ""Fifty Million Frenchmen"", then in the 1931 film adaptation of the same name, which was filmed in Technicolor. This short is on DVD in the special features"
"Love"", ""We Open in Venice"", ""Tom, Dick or Harry"", ""I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua"", ""Too Darn Hot"", ""Always True to You (in My Fashion)"", and ""Brush Up Your Shakespeare"". Porter began the 1950s with ""Out Of This World"" (1950), which had some good numbers but too much camp and vulgarity, and was not greatly successful. His next show, ""Can-Can"" (1952), featuring ""C'est Magnifique"" and ""It's All Right with Me"", was another hit, running for 892 performances. Porter's last original Broadway production, ""Silk Stockings"" (1955), featuring ""All of You"", was also successful, with a run of 477 performances."
"""The New Yorker"" wrote that it was ""one of the dullest revues ever put on the local boards."" However, columnist Walter Winchell praised the revue and Porter's songs, especially noting that ""What is This Thing Called Love?"" was one of the ""newest breed of love songs."" Wake Up and Dream Wake Up and Dream is a musical revue with a book by John Hastings Turner and music and lyrics by Cole Porter and others. The most famous song from the revue is the Porter standard ""What Is This Thing Called Love?"" The revue opened in London while Porter's ""Paris"" was"
"with a cast including Bing Crosby, Carole Lombard, and Burns and Allen, under the direction of Academy Award–winning director Norman Taurog, Merman was unhappy with the experience, and she was dismayed to discover one of her musical numbers had been cut when she attended the New York opening with her family and friends. She also appeared on screen with Eddie Cantor in ""Kid Millions"" (also 1934), but her return to Broadway established her as a major star and cemented her image as a tough girl. ""Anything Goes"" proved to be the first of five Cole Porter musicals in which Merman"
"was ""Fifty Million Frenchmen"" (1929), for which he wrote 28 numbers, including ""You Do Something to Me"", ""You've Got That Thing"" and ""The Tale of the Oyster"". The show received mixed notices. One critic wrote, ""the lyrics alone are enough to drive anyone but P. G. Wodehouse into retirement"", but others dismissed the songs as ""pleasant"" and ""not an outstanding hit song in the show"". As it was a lavish and expensive production, nothing less than full houses would suffice, and after only three weeks the producers announced that they would close it. Irving Berlin, who admired and championed Porter,"
"Lucy Monroe, Morton Downey, Charles Boyer, Dorothy Parker, Tallulah Bankhead, Irving Berlin, Vincent Youmans, Dorothy Fields. 123 Club was the first night club to feature the songs from Cole Porter's ""Something for the Boys"", ""Oklahoma"" and ""One Touch of Venus"". Stearns was also a stage actor, his first stage appearance was in ""New Faces"" and he was in several musical shows, including ""Show Boat"". During World War II he performed for the U.S. military in ""The Barretts of Wimpole Street"". They gave 140 performances for American soldiers in Italy and France, and then, in 1945, they moved to Boston and"
"the original concept recording of ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"" (1992). In 1999, he released a self-titled solo CD, on which he sang songs from the various musicals in which he has appeared. He played The Captain of the S.S. American in Kathleen Marshall's production of the Cole Porter musical ""Anything Goes"" in a year long tour that began in October 2012. In November 2013 he starred as Jean Valjean in ""Les Miserables"" as Equity Guest Artist at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee. In February 2014, he reprised his role as Javert in ""Les Miserables"" for the North Carolina Theatre in Raleigh."
"City. Berman returned to the Westport Country Playhouse in 2008 to be the music director, lead pianist and the arranger of additional music for ""Hot n' Cole: A Cole Porter Celebration"", directed by Tony Award-winning actor James Naughton. His piano playing was cited as ""dazzling"" by ""Variety"". Of his arrangement and musical direction of ""Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye"" Theatermania wrote, ""the entire ensemble is flawless, with the Hi-Lo's-like harmonies a treat Porter himself would have praised."" Berman has written the theme and additional music for Kidnapped by the Kids, which premiered on OWN, the Oprah Winfrey television network, on"
"heaping helping of puns and double (and triple) entendres."" The New Yorkers The New Yorkers is a musical written by Cole Porter (lyrics and music) and Herbert Fields (book). Star Jimmy Durante also wrote the words and music for the songs in which his character was featured. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1930. It is based on a story by cartoonist for ""The New Yorker"", Peter Arno, and E. Ray Goetz. The musical satirizes New York types, from high society matrons to con men, bootleggers, thieves and prostitutes during Prohibition. The musical includes Porter's famous, sad song about a"
"feverish, at-sea quality that seems to possess the show's team of talented, proven performers. The production's guiding rule appears to be to do whatever is necessary to land a joke or to sell a song. ... Numbers that should bubble with dry effervescence are more likely to come across as a thick ferment of suds."" Another musical version based on the same source material ran for 420 performances on the West End in 1987–1988 at the Victoria Palace Theatre. It employed the Cole Porter songs from the film, with a book and direction by Richard Eyre. It starred Trevor Eve"