OT: Theatre Music

[meyers7]

We got a couple more days til we play again. Sooooo. I was down in NYC this weekend and the wife and I caught School of Rock at the Winter Garden on Broadway. Soooo I thought why not move on from our City Music thread to a Broadway thread. So any songs from a Broadway musical. (or Westside End, but if it didn't get to Broadway.... well)

I'll start with one of the biggies. Miss Elaine Paige, Memory

 

[VAUConnFan]

Stephanie Mills singing Home in the original Broadway version of The Wiz.

 

[Kaizen]

 

[Kaizen]

 

[msf22b]

Yeah, West Side Story is hot.
When I got to supervise a mini concert version at Caramoor these many years ago I was taken by the unbelievable violence of the music. Quite subdued in the Movie Version.

But there is another show...that I saw 16 times in 1962...wonderful music, literate, intellectual, heart-warming, funny.
Caramoor remembered how much I loved it and opened last year with a semi-staged version.
Tiny orchestra...18 or so. A masterpiece.
Does anybody remember Barbara Cook as a 95 pound waif?

 

[lne001]

 

[Kaizen]

 

[Aluminny69]

 

[JimGunther]

I was 'kinda surprised that the "School of Rock" reviews were so kind.
While we moderately enjoyed it right before it "opened", I expect the predictable report cards (from the critiques) to be some variation of "Andrew - Not your best work"
I'm glad it's doing well, the entire cast is so charming.

That said, the Gloria Estefan bio-play is a really great night of entertainment.
While I love her music, I anticipated "On Your Feet" might be your typically ditsy "Jukebox Musical" concoction (see "Movin Out") but - in addition to the wonderful songbook, it tells a great American story.

Five Stars!

We got a couple more days til we play again. Sooooo. I was down in NYC this weekend and the wife and I caught School of Rock at the Winter Garden

 

[Aluminny69]

 

[Aluminny69]

This song knocked the Beatles out of the Number One position after fourteen straight weeks, back in 1964.

 

[VAMike23]

 

[VAMike23]

From "Oh, Kay!" [1926] Gershwin / Gershwin

 

[VAMike23]

Incomparable vocal drama and power from a young Audra McDonald

From "Porgy & Bess" [1935] Gershwin/Gershwin

 

[Aluminny69]

Isn't she beautiful? Judy Collins used to hang out at UConn in the early sixties.

 

[Aluminny69]

Ironically this gorgeous melody was not sung by either Henry Higgins or Eliza Doolittle, the show’s leads. It went to the supporting character Freddy Enysford-Hill who sings it outside Eliza’s window after he has met her at the Ascot races. In a show full of hit tunes, this one stood out and climbed the charts in versions by such pop male songsters as Vic Damone, Eddie Fisher, and Andy Williams not long after the show opened in 1956.

 

[Scud49]

On the Trail from the "Grand Canyon Suite":

 

[johnnyc]

I Got Rhythm from Girl Crazy (1930) - Gershwin(s) and Garland

 

[johnnyc]

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes from Roberta (1933) - Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach sung here by Connee Boswell

 

[Aluminny69]

 

[Aluminny69]

"Think of musical comedy, the most glorious words in the English language!"

 

[huskeynut]

One of the best -

 

[wbfree]

We got a couple more days til we play again. Sooooo. I was down in NYC this weekend and the wife and I caught School of Rock at the Winter Garden on Broadway. Soooo I thought why not move on from our City Music thread to a Broadway thread. So any songs from a Broadway musical. (or Westside End, but if it didn't get to Broadway.... well)

I'll start with one of the biggies. Miss Elaine Paige, Memory

 

[wire chief]

Here's one you vaguely remember but have no idea where it is from(STOP THE WORLD; I WANT TO GET OFF.)

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...51072C1D212DDDB494F651072C1D212DDDB4&FORM=VIR

 

[Aluminny69]