... for longer stretches to be profitable. The marketing for the show at that time was particularly intense, and the spectacle aspect was strongly promoted by producer Garth Drabinsky, under the auspices of his Canadian production company, Livent. The longer average runs of Broadway musicals depended in part...

... of Cinderella Broadway musicals theatrical production Disney version Hammerstein book The musical is a genre split between two dominant media, theater and cinema. While the dialogue and lead sheets may be nearly identical between the two, the differences are stark and can significantly effect...

... Are For” song Bacharach Universal Studios Warren Rich “With Love” song Buscaglia Leo Herbst Larry Memory for Tino A film Falcon Crest TV Joe Butterfly film Nguyen Scott Hao Nicoll Jon Paul Sullivan Susan Henry Mancini Victor/Victoria Blake Edwards Broadway musicals composers For thirteen years...

... Mustn't Kick It Around Rodgers and Hart Gershwin George Magnolia's piano theme Kern Broadway musicals musical theater Ginger Rodgers Hart Ray Bolger T he historic collaboration of Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) and Lorenz Hart (1895–1943) began inauspiciously, shortly after their first meeting in 1919...

... Blitzstein Anything Goes Porter Croon Spoon Blitzstein The Freedom of the Press Blitzstein Honolulu Blitzstein Let's Do Something Blitzstein The Rich Blitzstein Art for Art's Sake Blitzstein Egmont Overture Beethoven Iʼm Checkin′ Home Now Blitzstein Show Boat Kern and Hammerstein Broadway musicals...

... Bernstein and Sondheim Broadway musicals musical theater Cole Porter integrated musical Carousel Okalhoma Annie Get Your Gun I n the years following the success of Anything Goes in 1934 only Rodgers and Hart surpassed Porter in producing musical hits on Broadway. The Gershwins were...

... Afternoon on La Grande Jatte Seurat Color and Light Sondheim Gossip Sequence Sondheim Move On Sondheim We Do Not Belong Together Sondheim Youʼll Never Walk Alone Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musicals musical theater lyricist composer modernism B y 1960 Broadway had nearly completed...

... Gwen Foy Eddie Jr Hague Albert The Pajama Game Kiley Richard Oklahoma! Allegro Miller Buzz Rodgers and Hammerstein Bells Are Ringing Follies Gennaro Peter Guys and Dolls Haney Carol Holliday Judy Russell Rosalind Wonderful Town Broadway musicals Ethel Merman Bea Lillie Celeste Holm...

... Dream One Night in the Tropics Whiting Jack Jerome Kern composers Broadway musicals T. B Harms show tunes Max Dreyfuss Jerome kern was raised in Newark, New Jersey, where his father was a merchant. In 1902, Kern left high school to become a song plugger for Edward B. Marks’s Lyceum...

... Broadway musicals musical theater show tunes Richard rodgers grew up steeped in show tunes. His parents, operetta enthusiasts, kept music in the house; from the age of seven, Rodgers’s ambition was clearly set on musical theatre. In 1916 Rodgers discovered Kern—via a subway-circuit touring...

... Arthur Schwartz NYU Broadway musicals teaching show tunes Arhur schwartz displayed an early interest in music—despite objections from his father, a lawyer—and by the age of fourteen was playing piano accompaniment in Brooklyn movie houses. After graduating from NYU, he went on to Columbia...

... improvisation Broadway musicals musical theater Hyman Arluck’s Snappy Trio Minor Gaff popular music Harold arlen was the son of a cantor, whose melodic and colorful improvisatory style was to have a tremendous influence on Arlen’s work. But Arlen’s interest was firmly rooted in popular music...

... Threepenny Opera World Is Mean The Brecht on Brecht Birch Patricia Prince Harold Hosannah Rockefeller I Don’t Love You Kiddush Klops Lied Nanna’s Lied Song of the Rhineland Harris Sam H Magre Maurice Kurt Weill Berlin Broadway musicals contemporary work show tunes Bertolt Brecht Engelbert...

... Blitzstein composers Broadway musicals musical theater theater score Philadelphia Philharmonic Jasper Deeter Marc blitzstein, a pampered child from a prosperous banking family, was playing piano by ear at the age of three. At sixteen he performed as a soloist with the Philadelphia...

... Hearn George Osterman Lester Jr Wheeler Hugh Chenoweth Kristin Hugh Martin Gershwin Broadway musicals musical theater Kay Thompson Hooray for What! vocal arrangement Hugh martin left Birmingham Southern College as a sophomore to embark on a musical career. Smitten by Gershwin and Kern...

... Adams Price Gilbert Routledge Patricia Leonard Bernstein Philadelphia Broadway musicals musical theater The Cradle Will Rock Marc Blitzstein Leonard bernstein’s first theatre experience came when the twenty-one-year-old Harvard music major mounted the 1939 Boston première of THE CRADLE...

... Stability This Amazing London Town Tiger Tiger Valse de Rothschilds Never Again Who Is She? Kidd Michael Jerry Bock composers Broadway musicals Flushing show tunes Big Dreams Jerry bock grew up in Flushing, New York, where his father was a salesman. He began playing the piano at nine...

... and Albert Waltz We Got Annie You’re Never Fully Dressed without a Smile Ain’t Broadway Grand All in the Family Annie Bojangles Broadway Musical A Charlie and Algernon Charly Flowers for Algernon H R H I and Albert I Do! I Do! Man of La Mancha Six Wiz The Brown L Slade Cahn Sammy Charnin...

... Taught Me to Share New Man A New Year’s Eve Rats and Mice and Fish She Thinks That’s the Answer There She Is Grossman These Eyes of Mine Timing Woman Alone A Grossman Addie Pray Ebersole Christine Kaye Stubby Weidman John Larry Grossman composers Broadway musicals songwriter show tunes...

... Would’ve Thought? Bell Marty Daniele Graciela d’Arcy James Brian Hytner Nicholas Nederlander James M Peters Bernadette Richards Martin Short Martin Marvin Hamlisch Julliard Broadway musicals musical theater Funny Girl The Swimmer Marvin hamlisch studied at Juilliard and went...