Broadway lectures Tucson AZ

Richard T Hanson

ON THE TOWN! -The Broadway of Bernstein, Comden & Green

ON THE TOWN!The Broadway of Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden & Adolph Green On The Town! celebrates the inspired collaboration between a boy from Boston, a girl from Brooklyn, and a boy from the Bronx who created musical theatre masterpieces that changed the face of the American Musical. In 1944, twenty-somethings Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden and Adolph Green created the smash hit On The...

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Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas!

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas!The Holiday Music of Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley It’s Beginning To Look a Lot Like Christmas so kick off the holiday season with a celebration of the Christmas music of the Great American Songbook. The tunesmiths of Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley created holiday memories for generations of Americans with songs that have become the sound of Christmas....

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FLY ME TO THE MOON The Great Male Singers

FLY 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...

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October 24 – December 5, 2017
Dancin’ Fools – The Loft Cinema

  Dancin’ 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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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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