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Music by MARGUERITE MONNOT A rare production of the Parisian musical comedy that became the toast of London and New York! Billy Wilder’s hit movie version starred Shirley MacLaine as Irma, a carefree Montmartre streetwalker whose life is turned upside down when she falls in love with a law student. Marguerite Monnot’s atmospheric and tuneful score includes the hits Our Language of Love, Dis-Donc, as well as Valse Milieu, and There is Only One Paris For That. |
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GEORGE GERSHWIN The slam-bang musical comedy hit that made stars of Ethel Merman and Ginger Rogers. A New York playboy relocates to an Arizona dude ranch and encounters all sorts of eccentric characters. One of the greatest Broadway scores ever written includes I Got Rhythm, Embraceable You, But Not for Me, Bidin’ My Time, and Sam and Delilah. |
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Ben Franklin in Paris (1964) An unjustly forgotten gem from the richly prolific 1964-65 Broadway season, Ben Franklin in Paris chronicles Franklin’s efforts to get King Louis to recognize the United States as a sovereign nation – an important step toward independence from England. Robert Preston starred on Broadway, and the score includes Half the Battle, I Invented Myself, We Sail the Seas, Look for Small Pleasures, and two songs by JERRY HERMAN, Too Charming and To Be Alone With You. |
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HUGH MARTIN & TIMOTHY GRAY Hugh Martin (Meet Me in St. Louis) and Timothy Gray’s sparkling musical adaptation of Noel Coward’s classic comedy Blithe Spirit. Author Charles Condomine is haunted by the mischievous ghost of his first wife, Elvira. Megan Cavanagh stars as Madame Arcati, the eccentric medium who conjures up the naughty spirit, Dyan McBride is Elvira, and Maureen McVerry is Ruth, Charles’ second wife who is bedeviled by a ghost she can’t see. Songs include Home Sweet Heaven, Go Into Your Trance, I Know Your Heart, and Something is Coming to Tea. |
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The Great Revues From the earliest days of the Ziegfeld Follies, through the George White’s Scandals, sophisticated 1930s charmers like At Home Abroad and 1950s classics like Two on the Aisle, the Broadway Musical Revue delighted audiences for more than fifty years. Join us for a generous sampling of some of the greatest songs and sketches from this truly lost Broadway art form. Songs by great Broadway songwriters like DeSylva, Brown & Henderson, Cole Porter, Arthur Schwartz & Howard Dietz, Vernon Duke, Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin, Noel Coward, Jule Styne, Betty Comden & Adolph Green and more! *NOTE: THE GREAT REVUES is not a subscription offering |
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CY COLEMAN A rip-roaring musical treat about a wily oil prospector in 1912 – Wildcat Jackson – and her adventures (romantic and otherwise) with unflappable foreman Joe Dynamite. The great Cy Coleman-Carolyn Leigh score includes the hit Hey, Look Me Over!, and Tall Hope, What Takes My Fancy, Give a Little Whistle, One Day We Dance, and You’ve Come Home. |
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