Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During summer months, Broadway favorites flood the countryside where they are performed by members of the original cast, summer stock troupes or local players. Among this season's most frequent productions...
...George M. Cohan's familiar music to audiences in Brunswick, Me., Aug. 4-16; Westbury, L.T., through Aug. 10; Haddonfield, N.J., Aug. 11-23, with Mickey Rooney; Corning, N.Y., Aug. 26-31; and Los Angeles' Dorothy Chandler Pavilion through Aug. 23, with Joel Grey, who starred on Broadway...
...infected millions with his melodious malady. Originally a lyricist, he came into his own as a composer-writer with the rousing Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition and the poignant Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year, both World War II favorites. Then came the series of Broadway musicals that placed him firmly in the company of such show-business greats as Cole Porter, Jerome Kern and Richard Rodgers-Where's Charley (1948), Guys and Dolls (1950), The Most Happy Fella (1956) and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1961). Based on Damon Runyon, Guys...
...wedded his tunes to the rhythms of the words-by the way he always left room in his songs for a good laugh. Loesser also had a knack for turning the harsh into the lyric. While Guys and Dolls was still on its pre-Broadway tour, Loesser became fascinated with a line in Abe Burrows' book and decided to make a song out of it: The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York...
...musical Hello, Sucker, Mar tha Raye plays Texas Guinan, famed speak-times E.D.T. easy hostess of the '20s, whose forthright greeting gives the show its name. Wilson Stone created the score for this pre-Broadway show, with story line by Larry Marks and Robert Ennis Touroff...