Word: rodgerses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The birth of the modern Broadway musical is generally dated back to the early forties, when Rodgers and Hart's Pal Joey and Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! introduced the idea of integrating songs and dances into a play. Up until that time, musicals were generally silly comedies or melodramas...
In 1967, with Cabaret, Prince took these innovations a step further. This musical, based on Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories, had an emcee (Joel Grey), ? ? nothing to do with the work's plot-or other characters. Still, he had a large percentage of the musical's songs-numbers uninte grated...
But, besides being commercial failures, these shows all have one other-far more important-common denominator. In nearly every case. their scores were influenced most by one man, the granddaddy of forgotten musicals, Kurt Weill. In other words if you are going to write a good flop musical, you had...
The first Blue Grass recording was made in 1940, the successful "Mule-skinner Blues," a tune authored by another pioneer of early country music, Jimmy Rodgers, the "Singing Brakeman." In these early days, Bill Monroe's band contained mandolin, guitar, fiddle and string bass, the last of these being the...
Rodgers' photographs of Frank suffer somewhat by comparison. We get to know Frank a little, but our knowledge is limited because his parents, friends and wife are only vaguely described or quoted. There are certain things which a person does not say about himself. To know a person well, you...