Broadway lectures Tucson AZ

Richard T Hanson

Some Enchanted Evening

  SOME ENCHANTED EVENING The Golden Age of Musical Comedy Once upon a time, before the Concept Musicals of Stephen Sondheim and the Pop Operas of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Musical Comedy ruled Broadway. Each season, the Great White Way was chockfull of musicals that swept audiences into a magical world of zany characters in joyful plots, all wrapped up in sumptuous productions that featured...

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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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There is Nothing Like a Dame

  There Is Nothing Like A Dame   THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A DAME celebrates the women of Broadway who wrote the scripts, composed the songs, penned the lyrics, designed, directed, choreographed and starred in classics of the American Musical Theatre. We lift a glass to the women of the Golden Age of Musical Theatre who paved the way for the women now working on the new musicals of the...

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