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unusual facts about Musical theater



Alice Day

In 1929, she starred with Edward Buzzell in a film version of the George M. Cohan stage musical Little Johnny Jones, the title better known in revised excerpts staged in the Cohan Biopic Yankee Doodle Dandy.

Aunt Bam's Place

Aunt Bam's Place is a 2011 American musical play created, written, produced, and directed by Tyler Perry.

Boomers! Parks

Parks is a chain of family entertainment centers which feature indoor activities such as carousels, kiddie swings, restaurants, musical shows, and amusement arcades, and outdoor activities such as miniature golf, kiddie rides, bumper boats, batting cages, go-karts, kiddie roller coasters, laser tag, and in the case of the Dania Beach, Florida location, a wooden roller coaster called the Dania Beach Hurricane.

Elliot Norton

Retitled Oklahoma! when it opened on Broadway, the musical not only was a smash but helped change the face of American musical theater.

Flournoy Earkin Miller

Miller's script for The Mayor of Dixie was the basis for Shuffle Along which premiered in 1921,a Broadway musical with music by Eubie Blake and lyrics by Noble Sissle.

Ivy St. Helier

She also starred in Coward's revue Words and Music As a lyricist, she wrote additional songs for The Street Singer, and for The Blue Train, the London musical by Reginald Arkell, Dion Titheradge and Robert Stolz.

Jellicle cats

Jellicle cats, or simply the Jellicles, are a type of feline mentioned in T.S. Elliot's book Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, and in Cats, a stage musical written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and based on the book.

Johann Nestroy

It was first adapted as Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker (which later became the musical Hello, Dolly!) and later achieved success as the comic masterpiece On the Razzle, which was translated by Stephen Plaice and adapted by Tom Stoppard.

Mark Feldstein

Feldstein created the Scenic Photography for the Broadway musical, The Tap Dance Kid, which ran from December 21, 1983 through August 11, 1985, which featured Savion Glover in the title role.

Millie the Model

A 1986 Off-Broadway musical, Dial "M" For Model by John Epperson, inspired by Millie, was staged at LaMaMa E.T.C. Not a direct adaptation, it featured, for instance, the female impersonator Lypsinka as Mannequin St. Claire, a character based on Chili.

Ogo Bodhu Shundori

The movie is a Bengali reworking of the story of Pygmalion, heavily drawing upon the hit British musical My Fair Lady.

Raptio

The musical comedy The Fantasticks has a controversial song ("It Depends on What You Pay") about "an old-fashioned rape".

The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N

The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N is a musical with lyrics and music by Oscar Brand and Paul Nassau.

The Night That Made America Famous

The Night That Made America Famous is a 1975 musical revue featuring the songs of folk singer Harry Chapin.

Thrill Me

Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story is a musical with a book, music, and lyrics by Stephen Dolginoff.

WRCT

Genres including Alt-Country, Jazz, Hip hop, Metal, Experimental, Indie rock, Blues, International, Electronic, and even Musical Theater are among those commonly represented in rotation.They try to show off local music that people do not typically hear on mainstream stations.


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Baayork Lee

Other projects include becoming a talent scout for Tokyo Disneyland, opening a musical theater school in Seoul, South Korea, and producing.

Barbara Markay

Moving from classical music to pop, she formed a five-part female singing group, The Girl Scouts, and later a musical theater troupe, Little Lulu & the Humpers, that performed in Miami Beach and New York City.

Barefoot at the Symphony Tour

The tour featured Menzel performing a diverse repoitore of classic pop, musical theater favorites (including hits from Wicked, Rent), Glee, and songs from album I Stand), all accompanied by major symphony orchestras including New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and more.

Charles Gilbert, Jr.

He was musical theater coordinator for Kevin Smith’s film "Jersey Girl," and has directed and/or music directed productions at the Prince, Arden, People’s Light, PART, Opera Delaware and National Music Theater Network.

Gilbert earned a Barrymore nomination for his score to "Gemini the Musical," which premiered at the Prince Music Theater and was produced in the 2007 New York Musical Theater Festival.

Colleen Zenk

Originally a musical theater actor with a background mostly in dance, in 1980, while working during the day on As the World Turns, at night, Zenk co-starred on Broadway alongside musical theatre legends Chita Rivera and Donald O'Connor in the sequel to Bye Bye Birdie titled Bring Back Birdie, the biggest, most expensive flop to ever hit Broadway.

Corinth, Vermont

Patricia Neway, operatic soprano and musical theater actress, lived there in retirement until her death in 2012

Erika Eiffel

Her 20-year relationship with the Berlin Wall inspired the musical theater production "Erika's Wall".

Four Eleven Forty Four

A song entitled "4-11-44" appeared in The Major, a musical theater piece by Edward Harrigan and David Braham.

Frank Sinatra School of the Arts

Students have also attended competitive pre-college summer arts programs at The Joffrey Ballet School, The Stella Adler Studio of Acting, Parsons The New School for Design, Fashion Institute of Technology, NYU's Tisch School of the Arts: New Studio on Broadway, and Carnegie Mellon's Musical Theater.

Hans Zender

Chief Joseph, musical theater in three acts (premièred in 2005)

Harry Lawrence Freeman

These included Ernest Hogan's Musical Comedy Company, of which Carlotta Freeman was the prima donna; the Cole-Johnson African-American musical theater company, and the John Larkins Musical Comedy Company.

Hope for the Flowers

It was most recently staged in 2006 by Blue Repertory, a musical theater organization in the Ateneo de Manila University, under the direction of Macky Santiago.

James Stovall

When he was 13 years old he started training at the Urban Musical Theater at Morgan State University, where Debbie Allen, then a student at Howard University, was one of his dance instructors.

Jeremy Schonfeld

In 2005, Schonfeld and bookwriter Craig Pospisil premiered the musical Drift at the 2005 New York Musical Theater Festival.

Katie Henney

Katie attended The Independent Day School, a small, independent day school in Middlefield, Connecticut, and is currently taking a musical theater course at Pace University.

Kooman and Dimond

Dani Girl has been workshopped at Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania State University, the American Conservatory Theater, The Kennedy Center, The ASCAP/Disney Musical Theater Workshop, and CAP-21.

Marilyn Maye

She was accompanied on piano by her mother, who had named her daughter for her own favorite entertainer, musical theater star Marilyn Miller.

Marnie Schulenburg

“My main love is musical theater,” says Schulenburg, who graduated from DeSales University in Center Valley, Pennsylvania, with a degree in acting and directing.

Marta Roure

She attended first course of guitar and song at the Music School in Lleida and studies of musical theater at Youkali school in Barcelona, with Marc Montserrat, "el Sueco" and Susanna Egea as teachers of interpretation, Emma Reverter as teacher of Dance Jazz, Rosa Mateu in spoken voice technics, Enric Torner as teacher of claque, Josep Maria Borràs teacher of sol-fa and repertoire, and Fulgenci Mestres and Carme Sánchez teachers of song.

Melissa Benoist

She sang different songs for her five auditions: "Fidelity" by Regina Spektor, "King of Anything" by Sara Bareilles, a Colbie Caillat song, and some musical theater songs.

Menny

From now on musical theater and singing were fundamental in life and never stopped Menny appear within his extracurricular activities to the point of dropping out to start a solo career that has taken him to share the stage with artists such as, Maná, Betto Calleti, Fernando Delgadillo, Alejandro Filio, Circle, Conjunto Primavera Diego Torres, Aleks Syntek, Belanova, Jan, Facundo, Jeans, Motel Eduardo Capetillo, etc.

Murgas

The plural of Murga, a form of musical theater performed in Uruguay and in Argentina during the Carnival season

My Scary Girl

An American version of the musical was selected by the Barrington Stage Company for the 2008 Musical Theater Lab.

Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812

The work received the 2013 Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater, a 2013 Obie Award, and Best New Musical at the 2013 Off-Broadway Alliance Awards, and was nominated for five Drama Desk Awards.

Oregon Festival of American Music

Since 2002 the festival has focussed more specifically on a systematic annual treatment of the Great American Songbook, with a deemphasis of art music in favor of musical theater and concerts that focus on various treatments of the Songbook, ranging from straight vocal interpretations to standards-based jazz.

Sundsvall

Helen Sjöholm (1970-), singer, actress and musical theater performer

The Actors' Temple

Many vaudeville, musical theater, television, and nightclub performers attended services there, including Sophie Tucker, Shelley Winters, Milton Berle, Al Jolson, Jack Benny, Joe E. Lewis, Edward G. Robinson, as well as several of the Three Stooges.

Thea Garrett

She has also studied musical theater at Masquerade Theatre School for ten consecutive years, participating in various productions including The King and I and Beyond the Barriquades at the Manoel Theatre, in Valletta.

Todd Brunel

He collaborated with saxophonist Bobby Watson (as principal clarinetist with the Opera Ebony of Harlem) and has performed with such groups as ALEA III, the American Opera Musical Theater Company, the Andover Chamber Players, the Greenwich Village Orchestra and many New York and Boston area orchestras.

Totta Näslund

Nationalteatern was one of the many leftist music and theater groups that came together in 1977 to form Tältprojektet, The Tent Project, a musical theater performance on the history of the Swedish working class, which toured the country that summer.

Very Warm for May

Stephen Sondheim has cited Very Warm for May as an inspiration for his interest in the musical theater.

Victoria Karasyova

Has two higher education, in 2000 graduated from MGIMO named Shnitke (faculty of Music Arts) and in 2005 graduated from Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (faculty of Musical Theatre, chair of actors and producers of musical theater).