Moshpitting at the Met April 27, 2008
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From the Vienna Staatsoper production of Gaetano Donizetti’s La fille du régiment, Juan Diego Flórez sings “Pour me rapprocher de Marie”.
Equity wins silver in Houston April 22, 2008
Posted by Jeff in Labor, Movies, Theater, Zook.2 comments
Above: Marie Dressler (foreground) and chorus girls from the Ziegfeld Follies picketing on Broadway, 1919.
My original screenplay Equity has been awarded a Silver Remi for Best Dramatic Screenplay at the 2008 WorldFest Houston International Film Festival.
Michael Jeter, 1952–2003 April 6, 2008
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From the Tony Award telecast of June 3, 1990, Brent Barrett and Michael Jeter perform “We’ll Take A Glass Together” from the musical Grand Hotel:
Giuseppe di Stefano, 1921-2008 March 3, 2008
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The last of the great 20th-century Italian tenors, the man whom Luciano Pavarotti called a role model, has died at the age of eighty-seven.
Happy Valentine’s Day, from Eleanor February 14, 2008
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Eleanor Steber, that is, singing “Depuis le jour” from Gustave Charpentier’s Louise.
The (possibly apocryphal) story is that she recorded this for HMV because she was too hung over to sing the Mozart arias she had been hired to perform.
“Chattanooga Choo Choo” February 10, 2008
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From Sun Valley Serenade (1941), an intro by the Glenn Miller Orchestra segues into …
“I Got A Gal In Kalamazoo” February 9, 2008
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A year after Sun Valley Serenade, Glenn Miller, the Nicholas Brothers and Harry Warren and Max Gordon continue their survey of songs about American cities with funny names …
“Lucky Numbers” February 8, 2008
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From The Black Network, a 1936 short, fifteen-year-old Harold and twenty-two-year-old Fayard Nicholas perform “Lucky Numbers” by Cliff Hess.
Adelaide Hall and the Nicholas Brothers February 7, 2008
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From 1935, the VitaPhone short “An All-Colored Vaudeville Show” …
“Alright” February 6, 2008
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Somebody involved with Janet Jackson’s 1990 music video Alright had a nice sense of cultural history …
“Jumpin’ Jive” February 5, 2008
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This clip from Stormy Weather (1943) features Calloway and his orchestra, and the amazing Nicholas Brothers (Harold and Fayard).
“Au fond du temple saint” February 4, 2008
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From the 1996 Met tribute to James Levine, tenor Roberto Alagna and baritone Bryn Terfel, conducted by Levine.
Forgotten Broadway classics: Brigadoon February 3, 2008
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Maybe not exactly forgotten, but if all you know of Lerner and Loewe‘s first Broadway hit is the lousy MGM movie or even the disappointing abridged original cast album, check this out.
Forgotten Broadway classics: Bloomer Girl February 1, 2008
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Obviously influenced by the success of Oklahoma!, this 1944 musical featured two of that show’s stars, Celeste Holm and Joan McCracken, and its choreographer Agnes De Mille, in a show with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Yip Harburg, the team best remembered for The Wizard of Oz.
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