The 1950s was a golden age for the movie musical — with studios like MGM and Warner Bros churning out classics like Singin’ in the Rain and the second version of A Star is Born. These musicals had us ...
Admit it, at one point or another in your life, you’ve indulged in the fantasy that suddenly, in the middle of an otherwise unremarkable day, you and everyone around you would burst into a perfectly ...
LOS ANGELES - Betty Hutton, the actress and singer who brought a brassy vitality to Hollywood musicals such as "Annie Get Your Gun," has died in Palm Springs, Calif., at age 86. The death was ...
LOS ANGELES — Betty Hutton, the actress and singer who brought a brassy vitality to Hollywood musicals such as “Annie Get Your Gun,” has died in Palm Springs, Calif., at age 86. The death was ...
The Songbook team serenades you on the Ordway stage for an intimate, personal look into the stories behind the songs that created Broadway. Seated under the glow of the stage lights and inches away ...
The New York Yankees - you love them or you hate them. Douglass Wallop is one of the latter. He's the writer whose 1954 story about dreams of beating the Yankees became a beloved American musical.
From the 1950s through the 1970s, large companies regularly commissioned original musicals for their annual conventions and sales meetings. Some employed reknowned Broadway composers for these shows.
In the 1940s and 1950s, musicals about World War II tended to be peppy shows about soldiers and sailors on leave, acting carefree for a few days and leaving the war behind. Nowadays, we know that such ...