The Wild Party
Andrew Lippa wrote the book, music and lyrics for this musical based on the poem by Joseph Moncure March, directed by Gabriel Barre, which was presented at the Manhattan Theatre Club of City Center on...
View ArticleCinderella – 1965 Television Cast
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s treatment of the Charles Perrault fairy tale, first presented in 1957 on CBS-TV, was revamped and revived eight years later under the direction of composer Richard Rodgers,...
View ArticleKismet: A Musical Arabian Night – Original Broadway Cast Recording 1953
A “Musical Arabian Night,” which offered audiences a colorful and tuneful evening of fun, Kismet featured a bravura performance by Alfred Drake, the original Curly in Oklahoma!, as a poet who assumes...
View ArticleNo, No, Nanette – Original Broadway 1971 Revival Cast
Billed as “The New 1925 Musical,” and sporting a new book by Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel, adapted by Burt Shevelove, No, No, Nanette, the Vincent Youmans musical of… well, 1925, made a splashing...
View ArticleSouth Pacific – The New Broadway Cast Recording 2008
One of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s most glorious creations, South Pacific received a revival worthy of its pedigree, when this Technicolor production, directed by Bartlett Sher, opened on April 4, 2008...
View ArticleWonderful Town – Television Special 1958
Wonderful Town, an exuberant paean to the New York of the 1930s, began life as a musical based upon the play My Sister Eileen by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov and the stories by Ruth McKenney, with...
View ArticleFiddler on the Roof – Original London Cast 1967
Though little known at the time outside of Israel, his country of origin, where he already was one of the most popular actors, Topol was signed to star as Tevye in the 1967 London stage production of...
View ArticleThe King and I – Studio Cast Recording 1964
Coinciding with the revival of The King and I at the Music Theatre of Lincoln Center, Columbia Records released this studio cast album (recorded at Columbia Records, 30th Street Studio, June 1964, and...
View ArticleShow Boat – Studio Cast Recording 1962
Long considered the first genuine American musical ever staged, Show Boat opened on Broadway on December 27, 1927, irrevocably changing the course of the musical theatre. The work of composer Jerome...
View ArticleGentlemen Prefer Blondes – Original Broadway Cast 1949
When Anita Loos wrote about two 1920s flappers on a spree to Paris, she probably never imagined that one of them at least, Lorelei Lee, as portrayed by Carol Channing, would become the epitome of the...
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