Broadway lectures Tucson AZ

Richard T Hanson

Broadway, Up With A Twist!

    Broadway, Up With A Twist! It’s happy hour with Richard Hanson and you’re invited! Each week sit back, relax and enjoy a cocktail with the composers of the Great American Songbook: George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hart, Harold Arlen, and Frank Loesser. The way we party may have changed, but the music of the great tunesmiths of Broadway and Tin Pan Alley...

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Dance Fever!-The Hollywood Dance Machine

    DANCE FEVER!The Hollywood Dance Machine Dance Fever! celebrates the greatest dance sequences in the history of the Hollywood Movie Musical. For almost 100 years, the Hollywood Dream Machine showcased the greatest dancers of the 20th Century, who fired the imagine of audiences who sat in the dark, watching celluloid images leap and spiral on the silver screen. Dance Fever! explores...

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ON THE TOWN! -The Broadway of Bernstein, Comden & Green

ON THE TOWN!The Broadway of Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden & Adolph Green On The Town! celebrates the inspired collaboration between a boy from Boston, a girl from Brooklyn, and a boy from the Bronx who created musical theatre masterpieces that changed the face of the American Musical. In 1944, twenty-somethings Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden and Adolph Green created the smash hit On The...

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As Time Goes By-The Forgotten Tunesmiths

AS TIME GOES BYThe Forgotten Tunesmiths of The Great American Song Book Shine On Harvest Moon, My Melancholy Baby, For Me and My Gal, Happy Days Are Here Again – who wrote these songs? As Time Goes By celebrates the forgotten composers and lyricists who created musical memories alongside George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen, and Cole Porter.   You may not recognize the names of Gus...

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MAKE ‘EM LAUGH! The Funny Men of Broadway & Hollywood

  MAKE ‘EM LAUGH!  The Funny Men of Broadway & Hollywood Make ‘em Laugh! salutes the great comics of Broadway and the Movies. From Bert Lahr to Nathan Lane, from Jimmy Durante and Groucho Marx to Zero Mostel, from Ray Bolger to Donald O’Connor, audiences have roared at the comics who tickled and entertained us on the Great White Way and the Silver Screen. The comics of Burlesque,...

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Carefully Taught-Theatre of Conscience

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...

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