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Smithsonian's 'Red, Hot & Blue' sends its regards to Broadway - retrospective of American Musicals, Natl Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
The 100-year retrospective of the American musical examines the theme that musicals originated from a wide variety of ancestors. The exhibit features the ......(Continue Reading) A little knight music
'We don't stand a chance," whines Sir Robin after the Knights Who Say Ni, who terrorize visitors in the Very Expensive Forest, challenge King Arthur ......(Continue Reading)SPRINGTIME FOR BROADWAY : 'The Producers,' '42nd Street,' & 'Stones in His Pockets'
Like Genghis Khan across the Asian steppes, like the tulip in seventeenth-century Holland, like J.K. Rowling on the shelves of juvenilia, Mel Brooks's ......(Continue Reading)Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Chopsticks" musicals
Overture Richard Rodgers writes in Musical Stages: An Autobiography (1975): "When I was about six, a girl named Constance Hyman, the daughter of a college ......(Continue Reading)The sounds of silence: songs in Hollywood films since the 1960s - Critical Essay
Since the 1960s, filmmakers have responded to the demise of the classical Hollywood musical, especially to the loss of the convention that characters ......(Continue Reading)
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