Music Of Rodger And Astaire News

 
Gene Kelly at 100: All that jazz, all that exuberance
Chicago Tribune
"He wanted to dance to Irving Berlin and Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart and songs that moved him, like 'Star Dust.' Things he felt with his heart." As a young man growing up in Pittsburgh, Eugene Curran Kelly found early inspiration in the tap work ...

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Kathleen Marshall to Helm Broadway-Bound EVER AFTER Musical
Broadway World
For ABC/Disney: “Once Upon a Mattress” and Meredith Willson's “The Music Man” (Emmy nomination). She has received two Tony Awards, two Drama Desk Awards, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, the Astaire Award, the George Abbott Award, the Richard Rodgers ...

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ON STAGE: 'Edwin Drood,' 'Blithe Spirit' among shows closing
The Daily News Online
A Rodgers & Hammerstein show returns to MusicalFare for the first time in 18 years. The revue features songs from such shows as “Oklahoma!,” “South Pacific,” “Sound of Music,” “The King & I,” “Carousel” and others. For performance times and ticket ...


 
Albany Times Union (blog)
Fort Salem Theater announces season
Albany Times Union (blog)
The Fort's first show, which will run June 29-July 1, is “Robin Hood: The Musical,” which robs its lush score from the rich tradition of Rodgers and Hammerstein, directed by Tim Nelson and featuring a talented cast from The Rose Center Theater of ...

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ON STAGE: Batavia Players wrap 'Company' today
The Daily News Online
A new production based on the 2008 Tony Award-winning Lincoln Center Theatre production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. Set on a tropical island during World War II, the musical tells the sweeping romantic story of two couples and how their ...


 
Happy Birthday, Irving Berlin
OUPblog (blog)
From singing for pennies on the Lower East Side to his own theater on Broadway, Irving Berlin had an amazing journey to American musical legend. To commemorate the birthday of this great American songwriter, we spoke with Jeffrey Magee, ...

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Diablo Ballet review: Eclectic mix springs to life
San Francisco Chronicle
Also on the program was Erin Leedom's Astaire-flavored "Shall We Dance," accompanied live by the trio of drummer Greg Sudmeier, pianist Larry Dunlap and bassist Rich Girard. Set to standards by Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin, there was plenty of ...