Tag Archives: Irving Berlin

Monday Meditation: I am Not Over the Old Masters

Posted on September 21, 2015 by David Fick

Sometimes its easy to forget just how far musicals have come; it’s also easy to dismiss how much the ground-breakers were doing at the time. Continue reading →

Posted in Monday Meditation | Tagged Babes in Toyland, Cole Porter, Dearest Enemy, Disney, Disney Theatricals, Fifty Million Frenchmen, Glen MacDonough, Hamilton, Herbert Fields, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Lorenz Hart, Oh Kay!, Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers, Sara Bareilles, Sunny, The Lion King, The Red Mill, The Wizard of Oz, Victor Herbert, Waitress, Watch Your Step | Leave a comment

THE SATURDAY LIST: My 5 Current Musical Theatre Obsessions

Posted on August 30, 2014 by David Fick

For today’s edition of the “Saturday List” on Musical Cyberspace, I thought I would share my 5 current musical theatre obsessions, the things that I am finding most fascinating in the world of musical theatre – right here, right now. Continue reading →

Posted in The Saturday List | Tagged Andrew Lippa, Annie Get Your Gun, Brokeback Mountain, Cabaret, Colonel Buffalo Bill, Contact, Dawson's Creek, Dorothy Fields, Ethel Merman, Fred Ebb, Herbert Fields, I Remember Mama, Irving Berlin, John Kander, Joseph Moncure March, Marc Shaiman, Martin Charnin, Megan Hilty, Michael John LaChiusa, Michelle Williams, Native American, Native Americans, Peter Stone, Raymond Jessel, Richard Rodgers, Scott Wittman, Smash, The Wild Party, Thomas Meehan, YouTube | Leave a comment

Musical Theatre Sunday School: In the Beginning…

Posted on August 24, 2014 by David Fick

In the beginning, there was music and there was drama, and musical theatre was without form. Broadway was in darkness. And Henry Jarrett and Harry Palmer moved upon the face of the district, by arrangement with William Wheatley. “Let there be light,” they said: and there was THE BLACK CROOK. Continue reading →

Posted in Musical Theatre Sunday School | Tagged Annie Get Your Gun, Anything Goes, Babes in Arms, Babes in Toyland, Bloomer Girl, Brigadoon, Carousel, Cole Porter, Dearest Enemy, Die Lustige Witwe, DuBarry Was a Lady, Ethel Merman, Finian's Rainbow, Floradora, Florenz Zeigfeld, Follies, Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway, Franz Lehar, George Gershwin, George M. Cohan, George Washington Jr, George White, Girl Crazy, Harry Palmer, Harry Tierney, Henry Jarrett, Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, It Happened in Nordland, Jerome Kern, John Murray Anderson, Joseph McCarthy, Kiss Me Kate, Kurt Weill, Lady in the Dark, Leave it to Jane, Leave it To Me, Little Johnny Jones, Little Nemo, Lorenz Hart, Miss Dolly Dollars, Moss Hart, Musical Comedy, Naughty Marietta, No No Nanette, Noël Coward, Of Thee I Sing, Oh Boy!, Oh Kay!, Oh! Lady! Lady!, Oklahoma!, On the Town, On Your Toes, Oscar Hammerstein II, Pal Joey, Princess Theatre, Richard Rodgers, Scandals, Set to Music, South Pacific, Strike Up the Band, Sunny, The Black Crook, The Greenwich Village Follies, The Merry Widow, The Red Mill, The Song of Norway, The Third Little Show, The Vagabond King, The Wizard of Oz, Tonight at 8:30, Victor Herbert, Vincent Youman, William Wheatley | Leave a comment

A Chain of Musicals: KISS ME, KATE

Posted on January 16, 2012 by David Fick

In January, Musical Cyberspace is going to work through a chain of musicals. This is how it works: each day I will discuss, in brief, a musical linked to the previous day’s musical by some kind of common ground. It … Continue reading →

Posted in Bella Spewack, Cole Porter, Frank Loesser, Irving Berlin, Samuel Spewack | Tagged Annie Get Your Gun, Bella Spewack, Cole Porter, Guys and Dolls, Irving Berlin, Kiss Me Kate, Oklahoma!, Samuel Spewack | Leave a comment

A Chain of Musicals: ANNIE GET YOUR GUN

Posted on January 6, 2012 by David Fick

Posted in Dorothy Fields, Herbert Fields, Irving Berlin, Peter Stone | Tagged Annie Get Your Gun, Anything Goes, Dorothy Fields, Herbert Fields, Irving Berlin, Oscar Hammerstein II, Peter Stone, Richard Rodgers | Leave a comment

It’s Ethel Merman Week at Musical Cyberspace!

Posted on August 30, 2010 by David Fick

I had a dream! A dream about you, Ethel! It’s gonna come true, Ethel! They think that we’re through, But Ethel – It’s Ethel Merman week at Musical Cyberspace! Let’s kick off by taking stock of the legend that was … Continue reading →

Posted in Arthur Laurents, Irving Berlin, Stephen Sondheim | Tagged Angela Lansbury, Annie Get Your Gun, Arthur Laurents, Dorothy Fields, Ethel Merman, Gypsy, Herbert Fields, Irving Berlin, Stephen Sondheim | 10 Comments

NEWSFLASH: George Hearn Joins ANNIE GET YOUR GUN at Ravinia

Posted on April 9, 2010 by David Fick

George Hearn will join the previously announced Patti Lupone and Brian Stokes Mitchell for the Ravinia Festival’s concert production of ANNIE GET YOUR GUN. Continue reading →

Posted in Newsflash | Tagged Annie Get Your Gun, Bernadette Peters, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Dorothy Fields, Ethel Merman, George Hearn, Herbert Fields, Irving Berlin, Lonny Price, Patti LuPone, Peter Stone | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Irving Berlin

Monday Meditation: I am Not Over the Old Masters

THE SATURDAY LIST: My 5 Current Musical Theatre Obsessions

Musical Theatre Sunday School: In the Beginning…

A Chain of Musicals: KISS ME, KATE

A Chain of Musicals: ANNIE GET YOUR GUN

It’s Ethel Merman Week at Musical Cyberspace!

NEWSFLASH: George Hearn Joins ANNIE GET YOUR GUN at Ravinia

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