1950’s Broadway audiences backed away from The Golden Apple. It was all Greek, all intimidating Classical Greek, to them, they reasoned, even if it was sung in English. It didn’t follow the era’s conventional format for successful musical theatre. Never mind that the critics praised it highly with almost unanimous voice. Never mind that it was [...]
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Sixty years ago, The Golden Apple jostled for attention alongside revivals of Carousel and Show Boat and a new musical called Peter Pan on Broadway. The John Latouche and Jerome Moross show closed in little more than a month and became a rarely produced cult favorite. You’ll find one song, “Lazy Afternoon,” on Tony Bennett’s The Beat of My Heartalbum from 1957 and on Ghostlight, [...]
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ANNIE GET YOUR GUN in Concert AUDITIONS
Audition Notice Annie Get Your Gun (1966 version) in Concert Music and lyrics by Irving Berlin Book by Dorothy Fields with Herbert Fields Directed by Ann Nieman Musical Direction by Jay Dias Choreography by Ann Nieman Producer: Steven Jones Associate Producer: Shane Peterman Show Synopsis Annie Get Your Gun is the fictionalized version of the [...]
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Lyric Stage and Fiddler on the Roof Are a Match Made in Musical Heaven Seeing a show at Lyric Stage isn’t just a chance to revisit a beloved piece of American musical theater; it’s an education in how musicals were done, and still can be done, on a grand scale. Lyric’s specialty, its sole focus, is reviving big American [...]
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