Broadway lectures Tucson AZ

Richard T Hanson

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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