Broadway lectures Tucson AZ

Richard T Hanson

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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The Most Happy Fellas -The Great Men of Broadway

  THE MOST HAPPY FELLAS THE MOST HAPPY FELLAS – The Great Men of Broadway salutes the great men of Broadway. From George M. Cohan to Brian Stokes Mitchell, from Ezio Pinza to Hugh Jackman, from Ray Bolger to Tommy Tune, audiences have cheered the Broadway song and dance men who have charmed and enchanted us for over one hundred years. The leading men of the Golden Age of Musical...

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Look Ma, I’m Dancin’! The Art of the Broadway Choreographers

  Look Ma, I’m Dancin’! LOOK MA, I’M DANCIN’! The Art of the Broadway Choreographer celebrates the Broadway choreographers who elevated dance in the American Musical from “bring on the girls” entertainment to art. Agnes de Mille, Jerome Robbins, Bob Fosse, Michael Kidd and Gower Champion created masterpieces that expanded the vocabulary of show dance and...

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