Hairspray | ... Bass began a six-month stint playing Corny Collins in the Broadway musical | , coinciding with the play's five year stage anniversary. Bass ended his r ... |
Allegro | ... he partnership went on to produce these and other Broadway musicals such as | , Me & Juliet, Pipe Dream, Flower Drum Song, and The Sound of Music, as we ... |
Paint Your Wagon | ... obert Lewis. It was followed in 1951 by the less successful Gold Rush story | |
Grease | ... films of the decade are (in order from highest to lowest grossing): , Jaws, | , The Exorcist, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, The Godfathe ... |
Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be | ... 5), which she directed and also starred in the lead role. Her production of | , a musical about the London underworld, became a hit and ran from 1959 to ... |
Girl Crazy | ... iller played in the pit bands of two Broadway shows, Strike Up the Band and | (where his bandmates included big band leaders Benny Goodman and ) |
Godspell | ... music career in 1972 as the musical director for the Toronto production of | , starring Victor Garber, Gilda Radner, Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Dave Th ... |
Ain't Misbehavin' | A Broadway musical revue showcasing Waller tunes entitled | was produced in 1978. (The show and a star of the show, Nell Carter, won T ... |
The Threepenny Opera | ... r stage career for the following years, playing in the Greek productions of | and, for a second time, Sweet Bird of Youth, in addition to the ancient Gr ... |
The Band Wagon | ... z, and some were created for the original 1931 Broadway musical also called | , with a book by George S. Kaufman and starring Fred Astaire and his siste ... |
Oklahoma! | ... d "Discoveryland!" is the official performance headquarters for the musical | Historically, the state has produced musical styles such as The Tulsa Soun ... |
The Lion King | ... ears later when it was restored to host, among other shows, the hit musical | . Gielgud's Hamlet was later taken to Elsinore Castle in Denmark (the actu ... |
The Desert Song | ... ein had written or co-written the words for such hits as Rose-Marie (1924), | (1926), The New Moon (1927) and Show Boat (1927). Though less productive i ... |
New Girl in Town | ... e, the hard-luck girl fleeing from her past as a prostitute, in the musical | . When Fosse directed as well as choreographed his first Broadway musical, ... |
Show Boat | ... t played the stevedore Joe in the London production of the American musical | , at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, His rendition of "Ol' Man River" in th ... |
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown | ... inated the role of Charlie Brown in the original Off-Broadway production of | . He later was the drummer for a band called the Relatives in 1968. Actres ... |
South Pacific | ... e musical-play form – with such masterworks as Carousel, The King and I and | . The examples they set in creating vital plays, often rich with social th ... |
Across the Universe | ... top 10 best music covers of all time in 2009. The version heard in the film | segues from the original to Cocker's arrangement at the end of the song |
A Little Night Music | ... 1995, she played Desiree Armfeldt in a major revival of Stephen Sondheim's | , for which she won an Olivier Award |
Camelot | ... visions of a High Middle Ages palace. It lends its name to the 1960 musical | by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, which is based on T. H. White's li ... |
Anne & Gilbert | ... year at the Charlottetown festival for more than four decades. The sequel, | , premiered in the Playhouse in Victoria in 2005. The actual location of G ... |
Cats | ... was due to play the title role of Grizabella in the original production of | , but was forced to pull out due to a torn Achilles tendon, leaving Elaine ... |
My Fair Lady | In 1956, Lerner and Loewe's | first appeared. Their adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, with ... |
The Magic Show | ... omas and Andrea Martin. He went on to play piano for a Broadway show called | in 1974, then became a member of the house band on NBC's popular Saturday ... |
Broadway musical | From 1957 to 1959, he starred in the | Jamaica, singing several light-hearted calypso numbers opposite Lena Horne |
Cats | In most stagings of the musical | , which include the song "Growltiger's Last Stand" — a recollection of an ... |
The Threepenny Opera | ... ased in 1988. She also appeared as Mrs. Peachum in the 1989 film version of | , which was renamed Mack the Knife for the screen. In 1991 she starred opp ... |
Shall We Dance | ... ifornia. He was commissioned by RKO Pictures in 1936 to write the music for | , starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Gershwin's extended score, whic ... |
Sweet Charity | In 1966, Verdon returned to the stage in the role of Charity in | , which like many of her earlier Broadway triumphs was choreographed and d ... |
Funny Girl | ... roadway in 1964 with an acclaimed performance as entertainer Fanny Brice in | at the Winter Garden Theatre. The show introduced two of her signature son ... |
The Desert Song | ... cent Youmans (Wildflower), Rudolf Friml (Rose-Marie), and Sigmund Romberg ( | and The New Moon) |
A Little Night Music | ... g. She toured the United States in Stephen Sondheim's well-reviewed musical | , then took the show to London, and thus originated the role of Desirée Ar ... |
Lute Song | ... ranged music (with lyrics by Bernie Hanighen) for the 1946 Broadway musical | , starring Mary Martin and Yul Brynner |
Rent | ... arson and Thomson. Lynn Thomson, Jonathan Larson's dramaturg on the musical | , claimed that she was a co-author of the work and that she never assigned ... |
stage musical | ... bly All Quiet on the Western Front and Johnny Got His Gun. The 1963 English | Oh, What a Lovely War! provided a satirical take on World War I, which was ... |
Rent | ... Mimìs and Rodolfos, and two Musettas and Marcellos, were used in rotation. | , a 1996 musical by Jonathan Larson, is based on La bohème. Here the lover ... |
1986 musical | ... name, notably the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney; and Andrew Lloyd Webber's | |
Redhead | ... d best leading actress for Damn Yankees (1955), New Girl in Town (1957) and | (1959), a murder-mystery musical. She also won a Grammy Award for the cast ... |
Oliver! | ... nown for his starring role as Fagin in Lionel Bart's stage and film musical | based on Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. He created the role in the origi ... |
I Can Get It for You Wholesale | ... adway, in the small but star-making role of Miss Marmelstein in the musical | . Her first album, The Barbra Streisand Album, won two Grammy Awards in 19 ... |
No, No, Nanette | ... fund theatrical shows on Broadway for his actress lady friend is unfounded. | was indeed first produced in 1925 by Harry Frazee, though the sale of base ... |
Too Many Girls | ... business to support himself. In 1939, he starred on Broadway in the musical | . He went to Hollywood the next year to appear in the show's movie version ... |
Oliver! | ... dhood. Mendes later met with Spielberg; impressed by Mendes' productions of | and Cabaret, Spielberg encouraged him to consider American Beauty |
musical | ... 4, 2007, Bass began a six-month stint playing Corny Collins in the Broadway | Hairspray, coinciding with the play's five year stage anniversary. Bass en ... |
Grease | ... e film as a double- feature along with its other John Travolta blockbuster, | |
Oh, Kay! | This was followed by | (1926); Funny Face (1927); Strike Up the Band (1927 and 1930); Gershwin gi ... |
I Can Get It for You Wholesale | ... and real memory. The title may be an allusion to the 1962 Broadway musical | . The 1990 film Total Recall as well as its 2012 remake of the same name a ... |
The Boy from Oz | On stage, Garland is a character in the musical | (1998), portrayed by Chrissy Amphlett in the original Australian productio ... |
Kiss Me, Kate | The musical | is about the production of a fictitious musical, The Taming of the Shrew, ... |
The Sound of Music | ... t his home in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, at 65, shortly after the opening of | on Broadway. The final song he wrote was "Edelweiss", which was added duri ... |
Cabaret | ... wn as a singer, she drew strong reviews for her leading role in the musical | in 1968 |
Cabaret | In 1968, she was offered the role of Sally Bowles in the musical | . As Sheridan Morley later reported: "At first she thought they were jokin ... |
American Idiot | 2010 Tony Award Best Musical | [nominee] Produced by Tom Hulc |
stage adaptation of the same name | ... ng, and The Sound of Music, as well as the musical film State Fair (and its | ), and the television musical Cinderella, all featured in the revue A Gran ... |
Show Boat | ... hits as Rose-Marie (1924), The Desert Song (1926), The New Moon (1927) and | (1927). Though less productive in the 1930s, he wrote material for musical ... |
The Boy Friend | In 1961, Bixby was in the musical | at the Detroit Civic Theater, returning to Hollywood to make his televisio ... |
musical | ... languages. Subsequently, the story has been adapted for television, film, a | and other media |
Between the Devil | # "By Myself" — Tony (introduced in the stage musical | |
American Idiot | 2010 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Musical | [nominee] Produced by Tom Hulc |
Oh, What a Lovely War! | ... oney (1958), which gained great critical acclaim, and the satirical musical | (1963), her stage adaptation of a work for radio by Charles Chilton. Both ... |
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown | ... can actor, known for playing Charlie Brown in the 1967 Off-Broadway musical | , and the character Corporal Walter Eugene "Radar" O'Reilly in the M*A*S*H ... |
Moulin Rouge! | ... ossing Australian films. Big budget Australian-international co-productions | (Baz Lurhmann, 2001) and Happy Feet (which won the Academy Award for Best ... |
The Prince of Egypt | ... e of Egypt) talks about the actor. "Val was one of the first people cast in | . He was there every step of the way; patient, understanding, and phenomen ... |
Mame | ... for reprising her role as Auntie Mame when its Broadway musical adaptation | was set for production in 1966. She claimed to have turned it down since s ... |
Flying Colors (musical) | ... y and Arcade shoeshine man (Leroy Daniels) (introduced in the stage musical | |
Power Balladz | ... itesnake song "Here I Go Again" appears in both the Off-Broadway production | and the award-winning Broadway hit Rock of Ages |
Spring Awakening | 2007 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Musical | [winner] Produced by Tom Hulc |
Grease | ... e film rated highly with critics. It starred, among others, John Travolta ( | ), Michelle Pfeiffer (Stardust), Allison Janney (Juno), James Marsden (Enc ... |
Leave It to Me! | ... New York. That production did not open, but she got a role in Cole Porter's | . In that production, she became popular on Broadway and received attentio ... |
Pipe Dream | ... to produce these and other Broadway musicals such as Allegro, Me & Juliet, | , Flower Drum Song, and The Sound of Music, as well as the musical film St ... |
Dancin' | ... (in which she originated the role of murderess Roxie Hart) and the musical | (1978), as well as Fosse's autobiographical movie All That Jazz (1979). Th ... |
The Sound of Music | ... nd Yes. The will-o'-the-wisp is also referred to during the song "Maria" in | |
My Fair Lady | ... borated with lyricist Alan Jay Lerner on the long running Broadway musicals | and , with book and lyrics by Lerner, both of which were made into films |
My Fair Lady | ... play of the same name, which also formed the basis for the Broadway musical | . It was then-Disney Studio President Jeffrey Katzenberg who insisted the ... |
Between the Devil | ... e on their knees, costumed in baby attire) (introduced in the stage musical | |
stage musicals | In the | , Minako has been played by eleven actresses: Nana Suzuki, Sakae Yamashita ... |
Moulin Rouge! | ... ustralian films have included Paul Hogan's Crocodile Dundee, Baz Luhrmann's | and Chris Noonan's Babe. Other award winning productions include Picnic at ... |
Spring Awakening | 2007 Tony Award Best Musical | [winner] Produced by Tom Hulc |
Oh, What a Lovely War! | ... on the Western Front and Johnny Got His Gun. The 1963 English stage musical | provided a satirical take on World War I, which was released in a cinemati ... |
musical | ... to show business to support himself. In 1939, he starred on Broadway in the | Too Many Girls. He went to Hollywood the next year to appear in the show's ... |
Can-Can | ... er Michael Kidd cast her as the second female lead in Cole Porter's musical | (1953), starring French prima donna Lilo. Out-of-town reviewers hailed Ver ... |
Camelot | ... for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot," from the musical | , were quoted by his widow Jacqueline as being from his favorite song in t ... |
The Producers | ... dler on the Roof, The Gondoliers, Anything Goes, The Merry Widow, Iolanthe, | and HMS Pinafore. At present, the society is performing a tribute concert ... |
Mamma Mia! | ... ny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus at London's fifth anniversary performance of | , the musical based on ABBA songs. In 2005, she joined all three of her fo ... |
Bye Bye Birdie | ... n made a big splash as a teen idol in the television program Flipper. After | was released in 1963, Bobby Rydell became an instant teen tdol |
Jesus Christ Superstar | ... with critically acclaimed roles in the local stage productions of Hair' and | (in which she was the first African-American to play the role of Mary Magd ... |
Road Show | ... ton features prominently in the 2008 Stephen Sondheim/John Weidman musical, | , which centers on the lives of Addison Mizner and his brother Wilson Mizn ... |
Spamalot | Broadway references have included | , where a "Grail dance" sends up the "bottle dance" in Fiddler's wedding s ... |
Flying Colors (musical) | # "Louisiana Hayride" — Lily and Chorus (introduced in the stage musical | |
The Day Before Spring | ... way in 1943. It ran for 63 performances and was followed two years later by | |
The Desert Song | ... cter, George, hoping to be cast by Frank Capra as the Scarlet Pimpernel. In | , the heroic "Red Shadow" has a milquetoast alter ego modelled after The S ... |
Damn Yankees | ... her Tony and went to Hollywood to repeat her role in the 1958 movie version | , memorably singing "whatever Lola wants, Lola gets". (Fosse can be seen p ... |
Everyone Says I Love You | Woody Allen's 1996 musical | , in addition to being named for one of Groucho's signature songs, ends wi ... |
What's Up? | ... nine-week run and encouraged the duo to join forces with Arthur Pierson for | , which opened on Broadway in 1943. It ran for 63 performances and was fol ... |
Funny Lady | ... nds present, "Does anybody here KNOW how many times I've had to sit through | ?" In an earlier scene, Howard is taunted by a friend during an argument a ... |
Strike Up the Band | This was followed by Oh, Kay! (1926); Funny Face (1927) | ;(1927 and 1930); Gershwin gifted the song with a modified title to UCLA t ... |
The Boys from Syracuse | ... o dozen musicals, including such popular successes as Babes in Arms (1937), | (1938) and Pal Joey (1940). Some of Rodgers' work with Hart broke new grou ... |
New Girl in Town | In 1957, a musical version by Bob Merrill, called | , opened on Broadway |
Oklahoma! | ... adaptation became the first Rodgers and Hammerstein collaboration, entitled | , which opened on Broadway in 1943. It furthered the revolution begun by S ... |
Girl Crazy | ... d as a football fight song, "Strike Up The Band for UCLA". Show Girl (1929) | ;(1930), which introduced the standard "I Got Rhythm"; and Of Thee I Sing ... |
Hellzapoppin' | ... e comedy of Olsen and Johnson (specifically, their free-form Broadway revue | ), the innovative television works of Ernie Kovacs, and the topical satire ... |
Moulin Rouge! | ... iece. He ends up creating a carbon copy of the outside world. The 2001 film | features a fictitious musical within a film, called "Spectacular Spectacul ... |
Mr. Cinders | ... and in 1984, he made his theatrical debut in a revival of the 1920 musical | . More concert tours followed, along with a move from Florida to Spain. In ... |
The Rocky Horror Picture Show | ... ditioned for the role of Dr. Frank N. Furter in the 1975 film adaptation of | , a now iconic role that was eventually played by the original performer f ... |
The Producers | ... ere a "Grail dance" sends up the "bottle dance" in Fiddler's wedding scene. | (2001) includes a musical number in the style of Jerry Bock that features ... |
My Fair Lady | ... numbers for British actor Rex Harrison in the 1964 Lerner and Loewe musical | . In musical theater, the term "vamp" is identical to its meaning in Jazz, ... |
Dreamgirls | On December 21, 1981, the Tony Award-winning musical | opened at the Imperial Theatre on Broadway and ran for 1,522 performances. ... |
Show Boat | ... letomane Ernest Belcher. While in high school, she was cast in a revival of | |
The Sound of Music | ... oles over her career including Nellie Forbush in South Pacific and Maria in | . She was named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 1989. She was also the mother ... |
The Rocky Horror Picture Show | ... t follow-up, The Godfather Part II (1974) was also successful for a sequel. | flopped in its 1975 debut, only to reappear as a more-popular midnight sho ... |
Hair | ... a sold-out four-month run with the Broadway production of the rock musical | . The Lovin' Spoonful's song "Pow!" was used as the opening theme of Woody ... |
musical | ... y adapted into a critically acclaimed 1985 movie as well as a 2005 Broadway | |
Oklahoma! | ... produced full scale productions of popular musicals and operettas including | , Carousel, The Mikado, Guys and Dolls, The Pirates of Penzance, Me and My ... |
Chicago | ... as a couple, Verdon and Fosse continued to collaborate on projects such as | (1975) (in which she originated the role of murderess Roxie Hart) and the ... |
Show Girl | ... to UCLA to be used as a football fight song, "Strike Up The Band for UCLA". | (1929); Girl Crazy (1930), which introduced the standard "I Got Rhythm"; a ... |
Show Boat | ... ma!, which opened on Broadway in 1943. It furthered the revolution begun by | , by thoroughly integrating all the aspects of musical theatre, with the s ... |
On Your Toes | ... 1940). Some of Rodgers' work with Hart broke new ground in musical theatre: | was the first use of ballet to sustain the plot (in the "Slaughter on Tent ... |
Cats | ... ats. After Eliot's death, the book was adapted as the basis of the musical, | , by Andrew Lloyd Webber, first produced in London's West End in 1981 and ... |
Anything Goes | ... r Lady, The Yeoman of the Guard, Gigi, Fiddler on the Roof, The Gondoliers, | , The Merry Widow, Iolanthe, The Producers and HMS Pinafore. At present, t ... |
Cinderella | ... air (and its stage adaptation of the same name), and the television musical | , all featured in the revue A Grand Night for Singing. Hammerstein also wr ... |
Carousel | ... important contributors to the musical-play form – with such masterworks as | , The King and I and South Pacific. The examples they set in creating vita ... |
Show Boat | ... cessful collaboration. In 1927, Kern and Hammerstein had their biggest hit, | , which is often revived and is still considered one of the masterpieces o ... |
Pal Joey | ... opular successes as Babes in Arms (1937), The Boys from Syracuse (1938) and | (1940). Some of Rodgers' work with Hart broke new ground in musical theatr ... |
Carmen Jones | ... e A Grand Night for Singing. Hammerstein also wrote the book and lyrics for | , an adaptation of Georges Bizet's opera Carmen with an all-black cast tha ... |
Shangri-La | A stage musical called | was produced on Broadway in 1956, but closed after only 21 performances. I ... |
István, a király | ... c are Ludwig van Beethoven's King Stephen Overture, and the 1983 rock opera | (Stephen, the King) by Levente Szörényi and János Bródy. Szörényi's Veled, ... |
Shuffle Along | ... Hoyt Wiborg. Robeson then sang in a chorus in an Off-broadway production of | before he abandoned it to join Taboo in Britain for the summer. The play w ... |
Oliver! | ... endes' film debut; courted after his successful productions of the musicals | and Cabaret, Mendes was nevertheless only given the job after twenty other ... |
Fiddler on the Roof | ... s of Penzance, Me and My Girl, My Fair Lady, The Yeoman of the Guard, Gigi, | , The Gondoliers, Anything Goes, The Merry Widow, Iolanthe, The Producers ... |
Show Boat | The song "Ol' Man River" from the musical | mentions "Show me dat stream called de river Jordan, / Dat's de ol' stream ... |
Damn Yankees | ... and 1960s. That reputation solidified during her next show, George Abbott's | (1955), based on the novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant. She woul ... |
Annie | ... tholic school, Gesu Elementary, where she received a part in the stage play | in first grade. From then on, she was determined to become an entertainer. ... |
Strike Up the Band | ... d because of Nichols, Miller played in the pit bands of two Broadway shows, | and Girl Crazy (where his bandmates included big band leaders Benny Goodma ... |
Sweet Adeline | Other Kern-Hammerstein musicals include | , Music In the Air, Three Sisters, and Very Warm for May. Hammerstein also ... |
Hair | ... man auditioned for a role in the Los Angeles production of the rock musical | , which was playing at the Aquarius Theatre at 6230 Sunset Boulevard, and ... |
My Fair Lady | ... ousel, The Mikado, Guys and Dolls, The Pirates of Penzance, Me and My Girl, | , The Yeoman of the Guard, Gigi, Fiddler on the Roof, The Gondoliers, Anyt ... |
Very Warm for May | ... rstein musicals include Sweet Adeline, Music In the Air, Three Sisters, and | . Hammerstein also collaborated with Vincent Youmans (Wildflower), Rudolf ... |
Camelot | Their next Broadway production was | . The production starred Richard Burton, Julie Andrews and Robert Goulet.T ... |
One Touch of Venus | ... the Donaldson Award and the New York Film Critics Circle Award in 1943 for | . A special Tony came her way in 1948 for "spreading theatre to the rest o ... |
Of Thee I Sing | ... 1929); Girl Crazy (1930), which introduced the standard "I Got Rhythm"; and | (1931), the first musical comedy to win a Pulitzer Prize (for Drama) |
The Music Man | ... through their mention in the song "Seventy-Six Trombones" from the musical | by Meredith Willson |
A Grand Night for Singing | ... ame name), and the television musical Cinderella, all featured in the revue | . Hammerstein also wrote the book and lyrics for Carmen Jones, an adaptati ... |
Les Misérables | ... ballet but musical theatre such as Notre-Dame de Paris and the ever-popular | , London West End's longest running musical. Additionally, Hugo's beautifu ... |
Babes in Arms | ... ed a string of over two dozen musicals, including such popular successes as | (1937), The Boys from Syracuse (1938) and Pal Joey (1940). Some of Rodgers ... |
Oklahoma! | ... owing the spectacular success of the first Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, | (1943), the pair sought to collaborate on another piece, knowing that any ... |
Show Boat | ... rkeeper). In December 1945, Clayton left to star in the Broadway revival of | and was replaced by Iva Withers; Raitt was replaced by Henry Michel in Jan ... |
Two's Company | ... opted a baby boy, Michael, in 1952, and Davis appeared in a Broadway revue, | directed by Jules Dassin. She was uncomfortable working outside of her are ... |
Oklahoma! | ... with him. Hammerstein was eager to do so, and their first collaboration was | (1943). Thomas Hischak states, in his The Rodgers and Hammerstein Encyclop ... |
The Sound of Music | ... ay musicals such as Allegro, Me & Juliet, Pipe Dream, Flower Drum Song, and | , as well as the musical film State Fair (and its stage adaptation of the ... |
Flower Drum Song | ... these and other Broadway musicals such as Allegro, Me & Juliet, Pipe Dream, | , and The Sound of Music, as well as the musical film State Fair (and its ... |
The Sound of Music | ... evision. She also received Tony Awards for South Pacific, and, in 1959, for | |
stage musicals | ... of , Princess Venus is shown as having had an infatuation with Kunzite. The | told that the two of them were in love at the time of the Moon Kingdom, as ... |
Jesus Christ Superstar | ... m he had just completed. Elton John accompanied Groucho to a performance of | . As the lights went down, Groucho called out, "Does it have a happy endin ... |
Wonderful Town | ... e by an Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of Ruth in the Broadway show | (a musical based on the film My Sister Eileen, in which she also starred) |
Spring Awakening | Hulce was a lead producer of the Broadway hit | , which won eight Tony Awards in 2007, including one for Best Musical. He ... |
1973 stage adaptation | ... oached by Lerner to augment the Gigi film score with additional tunes for a | , which won him his second Tony, this time for Best Original Score. The fo ... |
Redhead | ... Fosse directed as well as choreographed his first Broadway musical, it was | . In 1960, Fosse and Verdon wed |
Happy Feet | ... ed the song in a medley with Prince's "Kiss", for the 2006 Warner Bros film | . The song was also featured in Alvin and the Chipmunks' 1990 television s ... |