Broadway lectures Tucson AZ

Richard T Hanson

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  A FINE ROMANCE   Jewish Songwriters and The Great American Songbook A Fine Romance celebrates the American Jewish composers and lyricists whose collective genius created the Golden Age of the American Musical Theatre and The Great American Songbook. The musical magicians of Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and the Movies shaped and defined the American experience in song and created an...

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A Really Big Show

  Richard Hanson is on hiatusduring The Loft Cinema’s renovation and expansion. Richard Hanson and The Learning Curve will return to The Loft in Fall 2025! A REALLY BIG SHOW! The Golden Age of Television Variety Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, there were only three national television networks. You actually had to get up out of your chair to change the channel!   From late 40s...

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Thursday, April 20, 2017
Over The Rainbow -Arizona Senior Academy

  OVER 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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January 2017
SING FOR YOUR SUPPER! The Great Women of Song
– The Loft Cinema

SING FOR YOUR SUPPER!The Great Women of Song In a small cafe on a crowded nightIn spot of light stands the singer.And the band begins and the beat is strongAnd the room belongs to the singer . . . From Sophie Tucker to Bette Midler, from Bessie Smith to Aretha Franklin, from DorisDay to Carole King, from Ella Fitzgerald to Whitney Houston, the great women of songhave chronicled an emotional...

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