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Tag Archives: Ragtime
The Saturday List: “Joseph’s Coat” – or a List of Colourful Songs, Part 1
A list of colourful songs to celebrate the South Africa revival of JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT. Part one of a three-part series. Continue reading
Posted in The Saturday List
Tagged Alain Boublil, Alexander Borodin, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Bianca le Grange, Bobby Darin, Brian Crawley, Charl-Johan Lingenfelder, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Duane Alexander, Earl Gregory, EY Harburg, Frank Wildhorn, Galt MacDermot, George Forrest, Gerome Ragni, Hair, Harold Arlen, Herbert Kretzmer, Irving Caesar, James Rado, Jeanine Tesori, Jerry Leiber, Jonathan Roxmouth, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Kismet, L Frank Baum, Les Misérables, Louis Zurnamer, Lynn Ahrens, Michael Park, Mike Stoller, Nan Knighton, No No Nanette, Otto Harbach, Paul Warwick Griffin, Pieter Toerien Productions, Prince Igor, Ragtime, Really Useful Group, Robert Wright, Smokey Joe's Café, Stephen Flaherty, Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd, The Beach Boys, The Drifters, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Wizard of Oz, The Yearling, Tim Rice, Vincent Youmans, Violet
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The Saturday List: Favourite Songs from 1990s Musicals
The 1990s. The next decade to be the subject of a Saturday List. Continue reading
Posted in The Saturday List
Tagged A New Brain, Aida, Alan Menken, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Assassins, Beauty and the Beast, Cameron Mackintosh, Elton John, Genn Close, Hello Again, Howard Ashman, Jonathan Larson, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Liza Minnelli, Marie Christine, Martin Guerre, Maury Yeston, Parade, Passion, Patti LuPone, Ragtime, RENT, Songs for a New World, Sunset Boulevard, The Life, The Lion King, The Secret Garden, Tim Rice, Titanic, Whistle Down the Wind, YouTube
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Double Take December: RAGTIME
It’s Double Take December at Musical Cyberspace! Every musical pretty much has something one likes and something one doesn’t in it. This month I’ll be listing one of each for a range of musicals, a different one each day. Ragtime … Continue reading
Posted in Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty, Terence McNally
Tagged Lynn Ahrens, Ragtime, Stephen Flaherty, Terrence McNally
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30 Musicals in 30 Days: Favourite Female Singer
Post a song sung by your favourite female singer in a musical. The name that immediately springs to mind is Audra McDonald. Bernadette Peters arrives next, but McDonald was here first and she really is, at this point in time, … Continue reading
Posted in EY Harburg, Fun Stuff, Harold Arlen, YouTube
Tagged Audra McDonald, Bernadette Peters, EY Harburg, Harold Arlen, Hooray For What!, Ragtime, Stephen Sondheim, YouTube
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Musical Comedy vs. Musical Play
Following my 2010 redux blog on “Genres of Musical Theatre“, I received a message from Hans Anders Elgvang, a regular visitor of this site, asking: ‘What are, in your opinion, the differences between the form categories musical comedy and musical … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Musicals, Theatremaking, Theory and Practice
Tagged Annie Get Your Gun, Anything Goes, Babes in Arms, Carousel, Crazy for You, Girl Crazy, Musical Comedy, Musical Plays, My Fair Lady, Oklahoma!, Ragtime, Silk Stockings, South Pacific, The King and I, Theatremaking, Theory and Practice, West Side Story
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2010 Drama Desk Awards
The Drama Desk Awards were presented last night in a ceremony hosted by Patti LuPone. Memphis won 4 awards, including Outstanding Musical, Outstanding Actress in a Musical (Montego Glover tied with Catherine Zeta-Jones), Outstanding Music and Orchestrations. La Cage aux … Continue reading
Posted in Broadway, Musicals, Off Broadway, Tony Awards
Tagged A Little Night Music, Acme Sound Partners, Alex Timbers, American Idiot, Basil Twist, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Christopher Fitzgerald, Daryl Waters, David Bryan, Douglas Hodge, Drama Desk Awards, Everyday Rapture, Finian's Rainbow, Fred Ebb, John Kander, Julian Crouch, Katie Finneran, La Cage aux Folles, Matthew Wright, Memphis, Michael Mayer, Montego Glover, Patti LuPone, Phelim McDermott, Promises Promises, Ragtime, Sondheim on Sondheim, The Addams Family, The Scottsboro Boys, Tony Awards, Twyla Tharp, Yank!
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TITANIC vs RAGTIME…
Maury Yeston and Peter Stone’s TITANIC features one of the best musical theatre scores of the 1990s – but so does Terrence McNally, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty’s RAGTIME. Continue reading →