author: thomas s hischak

... Broadway at the Public Theatre in 1971 prompted a reprise in the intimate Broadway house. 2293. Here Come the Clowns [7 December 1938] play by Philip Barry [Booth Thea; 88p]. In the back room of the Café des Artistes run by “Ma” Speedy ...

... Horton the Elephant (Kevin Chamberlain) discovers a population of microscopic beings called Whos and befriends the ... Notice Me, Horton,” “Alone in the Universe,” “Oh, the Thinks You Can Think,” “It's Possible (McElligot's Pool),” and ...

... lyrics, his pattern for most of his subsequent works. LaChiusa received high praise for his Off Broadway musical HELLO AGAIN (1993) but his Broadway efforts Marie Christine (1999) and THE WILD PARTY (2000) were more admired than ...

... Pinocchio . The songs by Leigh Harline ( music ) and Ned Washington ( lyrics ) are not only memorable in themselves but also fit nicely into the narrative . The Oscar - winning " When You Wish Upon a Star " sets the mood and theme of ...

... Lords. of. Discipline. A novel by Pat Conroy (1980) FILM: The Lords of Discipline (Paramount 1983). Adaptation by Thomas Pope, Lloyd Fonvielle. Director: Franc Roddam. Cast: David Keith (Will McLean), Mark Breland (Tom Pearce), Robert ...

... Kaiulani Lee (Emilia), and James Rebhorn (Roderigo). The Roundabout would present a series of rarely revived classics this season, beginning with Ibsen's Little Eyolf on June 28. Ross Petty and Concetta Tomei played the troubled parents ...

... music is best appreciated on its own. For example, consider the score for The Golden Child, a misguided Eddie Murphy comedy that was a box office ... piano. This ... main theme's predominant beat is an electric guitar riff with some higher ...

... all the better for it. Godspell introduced songwriter Stephen Schwartz to theatregoers, and much of the success of ... Good Gifts.” Filled with so much variety, the Godspell score still sounds like a whole. (One number, the touching folk ...

... How I Learned to Drive. The thirty-five-year-old Li'l Bit looks back at her long-term il- licit relationship with her uncle with a variety of emotions. She doesn't see herself as ... How I Learned to Drive to move 152 How I Learned to Drive.

Thomas S. Hischak. 68 Hello , Dolly ! unknown Herman . Instead Carol Channing , who had made a splash in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes back ... My Hand In " " It Takes a Woman " " It Takes a Woman ( Reprise ) " " Ribbons Down My Back " " ...

... Mr. Mistoffelees ; Macavity . TV ( 1998 ) . Score : Andrew Lloyd Webber ... Cellophane . Miramax ( 2002 ) . Screenplay : Bill Condon . Score : John ... Mr. Cellophane ; I Move On . A Chorus Line Public Theatre , 15 April 1975 ( 6,137 ...

... Kiss Me , Kate Frances Eldridge in Long Day's Journey Into Night Henry Fonda ... Score category . Such inconsistencies made for some embarrassing gaps , such ... Kiss Me , Kate Score : Cole Porter , Kiss Me , Kate Composer : Richard ...

... Bonnie and Clyde was staged by Jeff Dodd at St. Augustine (Florida) High ... musical. Theatre requires more factors than perhaps any of the other art forms. Four basic elements must be present for a theatre event to occur: actors, script ...

... play of the season was Miguel Piñero's Short Eyes ( 2-28-74 , Public : Anspacher ) , a prison drama that won the New York Drama Critics Award . The playwright was a paroled convict who was active in drama work- shops while at Sing Sing ...

... greaseball evolved into " greasers , " used to describe teens with slicked- back hair . Danny and the Burger Palace Boys are proud to be known as greasers . hand jive : A very popular dance of the 1950s was the hand jive , usually done ...

... script . STEEL MAGNOLIAS ( 1987 ) , a play by Robert Harling . [ * Lucille Lortel Theatre , 1,126 perf . ] Truvy ( Margo Martindale ) , whose motto is " there is no such thing as natural beauty , " runs a hair- dressing salon in a small ...

... Daddy Long - Legs September 28 , 1914 ( Gaiety Theatre ) , a comedy by Jean ... Score : Johnny Mercer . Cast : Leslie Caron ( Julie Andre ) , Fred Astaire ( Jervis Pendle- ton ) , Fred Clark , Thelma Ritter , Terry Moore , Charlotte Austin , ...

... Peter Pan (1953). Selena Gomez sings the lightly pulsating number, about finding your own hidden talents and ... Following the Leader” is the contagious march that Oliver Wallace, Ted Sears, and Winston Hibler wrote for the animated film ...

Thoroughly indexed, the volume also includes a chronology of the musicals covered as separate entries and a bibliography of general works on musical theatre.

... libretto for Anything Goes ( 1935 ) , Porter came up with " All Through the Night , " " You're the Top , " " I Get a ... script called Jubilee , Porter provided " A Picture of Me Without You , " " Just One of Those Things " and " Begin ...

... Si tu vois ma mère” (Sidney Bechet) Sidney Bechet “Seul ce soir” (Paul Durand, Jean Casa- nova, Rose Noël) Swing 41: Jørgen Mar- tinsen, Martin Walker, Flemming Honig, Peter Williams “Recado” (Djalma Ferreira, Luiz Antônio) Djalma ...

... Following the Leader” for the Lost Boys is the very essence of adventure ... Peter Pan a special kind of bombast. The three-note fanfare theme for Peter is used effectively throughout the movie and lets the moviegoer know ... Peter Pan 245.

... 2-Night, Bar- naby Jones, Alice, The Twilight Zone, Hardcastle and McCormick, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Becker ... Jimmy Timmy Power Hour (2004), Felix the Cat Saves Christmas (2004), Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas (2004), Brother Bear 2 ...

Thomas S. Hischak. “CAN'T HELP LOVIN' DAT MAN” “Can I Forget You?” is a popular ballad that Kern and lyricist Oscar Ham- merstein wrote for the pioneer movie musical High, Wide and Handsome (1937). The lovely farewell song was sung by ...

Thomas S. Hischak. 92 Dream publish it , but the sheet music did not sell and the song fell into obscu- rity . In ... Little Dream of Me ” ( 1931 ) is a simple but melodic little ballad that managed to resurface every once in a while and ...

Adapted from Charles Dickens' A Christmas carol.

... play Tarzan and collaborated on the script, which was often very close to one of the Tarzan books. The natives have a diamond mine that the greedy Esteban Miranda covets, so he kidnaps Tarzan's sister, Betty, and forces her to show him ...

... Broadway score used to sound like : " Kiss the Girl , " " Part of Your World , " " Poor Unfortunate Souls , " and the Oscar - winning " Under the Sea . " LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS ( Geffen / Warner 1986 ) followed the 1982 Off - Broadway ...

... Kiss Me , Kate ( 1948 ) . Kirk was featured in the musical play Mack and Mabel ( 1974 ) and made her last Broadway appearance in 1984 . " A KISS TO BUILD A DREAM ON " is the hit ballad by Bert Kalmar , Oscar Hammerstein ( lyric ) and ...

... script of the musical Anything Goes for the 1987 Lincoln Center revival. His ... Opera (lyrics by Bertolt Brecht) which premiered in Berlin in 1928 and ... Phantom of the Opera (book by Arthur Kopit) simply titled Phantom, not to be ...

... overture blasts out. It is an audience-grabbing opening that is undeniably effective. The libretto includes many of the celebrated scenes and plot points from the novel. But Lloyd Webber's Phantom is a composer, and ... Phantom of the Opera.

... FIDDLER. ON. THE. ROOF. Studio and release date: Mirisch/United Artists; October 1971 Producer: Norman Jewison Screenplay: Joseph Stein, based on his 1964 stage script, which was based on the story Tevye's Daughters by Sholom Aleichem ...