Word: ziegfeld
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...remember it being this funny" is the constant refrain at the Ziegfeld Theatre in Manhattan, where the 1965 film The Sound of Music is getting The Rocky Horror Picture Show treatment. Viewers are invited to arrive in costume, sing along with every musical number as the film plays and comment out loud about the events on screen ("I'm gay!" shout several people whenever Uncle Max announces he has a surprise for the children). Some younger kids might be frightened by the spectacle of hundreds of New Yorkers, a few in drag, belting out So Long, Farewell...
DAVID MERRICK--the Ziegfeld of the '60s, the Abominable Showman (a description he adored), a boss who scared the pants off this young man whom he had just hired to write the songs for Hello, Dolly! (starring Carol Channing, pictured with Merrick), entering his blood-red office for the first time. A jokester who used rave quotes by ordinary people (who had the same names as the seven Broadway critics of the day) to advertise a flop show of his in a full-page New York Times ad, a loving father, a ladies' man--the dictator who forced...