“That’s the song of Paris” January 10, 2008
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I celebrated Valentine’s Day by posting “Isn’t It Romantic” from Love Me Tonight (1932).
Here we see the remarkable opening sequence from this bubbly and innovative Rodgers and Hart movie musical directed by Rouben Mamoulian.
“Some Enchanted Evening” December 7, 2007
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Among Broadway fanatics, this is legendary: on March 28, 1954, General Foods celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary with a TV special honoring Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, simulcast on all four networks (ABC, CBS, Dumont and NBC). From that show, the only surviving clip of Ezio Pinza and Mary Martin, the stars of South Pacific.
Robert Goulet, 1933-2007 November 1, 2007
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Robert Goulet and Barbara Cook, from a 1962 Bell Telephone Hour, performing songs from that season’s Broadway hits, including Goulet’s best-known role, Lancelot in Camelot.
The bench scene July 28, 2007
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What is the greatest scene in Broadway musical theater history? Of such questions are great debates made …
“Isn’t It Romantic?” February 14, 2007
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Far and away the highlight of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart‘s Hollywood sojourn in the early 1930s, Love Me Tonight was directed by Rouben Mamoulian, who ten years later would direct Oklahoma! and Carousel on Broadway for Rodgers and his new partner Oscar Hammerstein.
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