The Learning Curve presents: CAREFULLY TAUGHT OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN & STEPHEN SONDHEIM Theatre of Conscience “You’ve got to be taught to hate and fear, you’ve got to be taught from year to year, It’s got to be drummed in your dear little ear, you’ve got to be carefully taught . . .” Oscar Hammerstein, South Pacific Oscar Hammerstein II was a surrogate father and...
Read MoreHave Yourself A Merry Little Christmas!The Holiday Music of Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley It’s Beginning To Look a Lot Like Christmas so kick off the holiday season with a celebration of the Christmas music of the Great American Songbook. The tunesmiths of Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley created holiday memories for generations of Americans with songs that have become the sound of Christmas....
Read MoreFLY ME TO THE MOON The Great Male Singers Fly me to the moonLet me play among the stars,Let me see what spring is likeOn Jupiter or Mars . . . From Rudy Vallée to Frank Sinatra, from Bing Crosby to Tony Bennett, from Cab Calloway to Johnny Mathis, from Louis Armstrong to Nat King Cole, from Fats Domino to Elvis Presley to the Beatles, the great men of song have chronicled a romantic history of...
Read MoreDancin’ Fools DANCIN’ FOOLS – The Art of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. Gene Kelly once said that “the history of dance on film begins with Fred Astaire.” One might say that the history of dance on film ends with Gene Kelly. Dancin’ Fools explores the Broadway and Hollywood careers of these two iconic song and dance men who define the Golden Age of movie...
Read MoreOVER THE RAINBOW – Songs of Conscience, Songs of Hope Over the Rainbow, Songs of Conscience, Songs of Hope explores the American Musical Theatre as a place which as always honored the outsider, the other. Theatre has been a venue where generations of primarily Jewish-American writers, composers & lyricists fashioned their own identities as Americans. The Broadway stage was a...
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