Word: songful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leads for this year's Drumbeats and Song production of Wonderful Town were announced recently by Louise N. Bell '59 and Susan M. Colt '59, directors of the show...
...were encouraged to buy a "Little Nun" or a "Little Priest" in 40-or 45-in. sizes, each $8.95. "Watch," says the ad, "how [children] will assume the quiet dignity of those who have dedicated their lives to the Church." But Christianity's smash commercial success is a song, composed by Disk Jockey George Donald McGraw. 30, of Salem, Va., who got tired of hearing "songs about funny animals, Santa Claus and filter cigarettes" at Christmastime and decided that "everybody was kind of starved for something real sincere." The something Deejay McGraw provided and had sung in unretouched hillbilly...
During Flower Drum's Boston tryout, when Nightclub Comic Larry Storch did not work out in the role of Sammy Fong, he was quickly replaced by a more experienced stage veteran, Larry Blyden. A sentimental song was cut, and Blyden's part was beefed up; Hammerstein spent two days writing the lyrics of a new song, and Rodgers retired to the Shubert Theater ladies' room (which during rehearsals was equipped with a piano) and wrote the music in less than six hours. (His record: South Pacific's Bali Ha'i, which he wrote in five...
Omnibus (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Gene Kelly, whose direction of the new Broadway hit Flower Drum Song has kept him busy with Oriental dancing girls, undertakes to prove that dancing is also a "man's game...
Flower Drum Song. Rodgers and Hammerstein's latest (see SHOW BUSINESS...