Word: musicale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Long Runs: Well, there's The Mamet Plays, which proves that American playwrighting talent is not yet dead; Annie, which proves that the American Musical Comedy is not yet dead; The All-Night Strut, which proves that the music of the '30s and '40s is not yet dead; and The...
"Overtures in Asia Minor," a spy spoof, has been chosen as this year's musical production by the Hasty Pudding Theatrical Society, Thomas A. Rando '79, assistant producer, said last night.
"Overtures" took approximately six weeks to write, Vanderbilt said. He added the original ideas for the musical were Franklin's.
Had the score been published when it was originally composed, people might first have gone wild about Eubie in 1899 when he wrote Charleston Rag. In that selfsame year Scott Joplin turned out Maple Leaf Rag. Eubie had an unlikely background for a composer. The son of ex-slaves, he...
They are certainly singing and dancing with gut-lusty abandon in Eubie! If the twelve members of the cast were sent to Washington, they could undoubtedly resolve the energy crisis in two hours. Yet as a musical revue without a narrative line or cohesive theme, Eubie! ranks as a mini...