Word: sinatras
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...louts into Lochinvars, and elevated their gutter parlance into a courtly elocution, full of flowery phrases scrupulously shorn of contractions. While time has been unkind to many landmark musicals, Guys and Dolls has sustained its glowing reputation despite a clumsy 1955 Hollywood rendition with Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra and a trendy, swingy all-black revival on Broadway...
...amount of airplay on progressive radio stations, and for good reason. The simple message of the song. David Lowery's passionate vocal performance and Johnny Hickman's solid lead guitar make for a great pop tune. With a chorus like "What the world needs now is a new Frank Sinatra, so I can get you in bed/What the world needs now is another folk singer like I need a hole in my head," "Teen Angst" bares it all in the name of rock...
Morris' offstage performances have sometimes been as outrageous as his onstage productions. He first caused tongues to wag in 1984 when he jumped up in the middle of a performance of Twyla Tharp's Nine Sinatra Songs and shouted his displeasure at the stage before walking out. "I think she's a great choreographer, but I hated that dance. It was horrible," he says now. "You know, a lot of people go along with things. But if I don't like something, I'm like 'Yech, come on, everybody, let's open our eyes.' " Morris provoked an eye-opener...
...want snazzy backdrops? One scene is played in front of the Grand Canyon. "The Wages of Sin" is delivered in front of a chapel decorated with stained-glass tributes to St. Elvis, St. Cher, St. Frank (Sinatra) and St. Wayne (Newton). The finale happens at the Hitch `n' Run Marriage Parlor/Ditch 'n' Run Divorce Parlor (Mottos: Wedding for Good Dough/May Divorce Be With...
During the 1950s, BOBBY DARIN was a teen idol who wrote and sang some classic rockers (Splish Splash, Dream Lover), then decided to turn himself into Sinatra. No one ever said Darin was modest. That brashness, in fact, was part of his whole charming, overreaching package, which is welcomely represented on two Atlantic CDs called The Best of Bobby Darin (Splish Splash and Mack the Knife). Mack, of course, became Darin's signature song, making him equally at home in supper clubs and on American Bandstand. He went to Hollywood, made movies, played Vegas and laid down some exceptional, swinging...