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Word: musicale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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The "punches," which traditionally included informal musical performances, were a "grand old institution," but the decline in attendance in recent years indicated that the school's limited resources could be better directed elsewhere, Marshall Pihl, associate director of the Summer School, said yesterday.

Author: By Cynthia Mccallister, | Title: Dorm Parties, Band Concert Replace 'Punch' | 7/1/1977 | See Source »

There is universal agreement that Show Boat is Kern's supreme achievement and that the work as a whole is a peak in the history of the musical. Those who need to be shown why can catch a new production of it at the Barn Theatre in New London, New...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Kern's 'Sweet Adeline' in Bright Revival | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

The show's creators were cashing in on the public's fascination with theatrical life, and with the disparity between onstage glamour and backstage heartache. The musical portrayal of stage life would, with the immediate advent of sound movies, be taken up in a host of Hollywood films such as...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Kern's 'Sweet Adeline' in Bright Revival | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

If Sweet Adeline in 1977 gives us a nostalgic look at 1929, the show itself attempted to give audiences of 1929 a look at a bygone era. The work was originally billed as "a musical romance of the Gay Nineties," and its story began in 1898. In the version at...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Kern's 'Sweet Adeline' in Bright Revival | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

[The production continues at Brandeis University's Spingold Theatre in Waltham through July 17, to be followed by Shaw's "Too True to Be Good." July 19 to August 14; Vincent Youman's "Hit the Deck," August 16 to 21; and a new musical by Clark Gesner, "The Utter Glory...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Kern's 'Sweet Adeline' in Bright Revival | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

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