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...
Read MoreMAKE ‘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,...
Read MoreThe 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 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...
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