To me, more like a Stradivarius, but I'm with you there!
Posted on 04/29/2024 7:44:59 AM PDT by Twotone
The heyday of the American musical began in the late 1920s and lasted into the 1960s. The music that came out of Broadway and Hollywood during that period represents one of the pinnacles of American popular culture. This fourth and final CCA of the 2023-2024 academic year will consider the history and character of the American musical.
My parents really enjoyed theater of all kinds, especially musical theater. I grew up with show tunes playing all the time and I really like them. And it really annoys me that musical theater is almost totally a homosexual pastime now. My wife kids me that no one listens to show tunes excepts the gays. It used to be a fine part of our culture.
And those flowers at the opening of "My Fair Lady" just blew me away on the big screen at the Cinerama in San Francisco!! And Audrey Hepburn... I've never seen a more beautiful woman encompassing both physical proportion and graciousness, with that heap of Chelsea comedy.
Can we please see movies like that again? I know it's hard, but wasn't it worth it?
...and with a long, slender neck like that of a Fender Stratocaster, a neck like no other.
Morning. Saw Oklahoma! at a spaghetti feed in Scotts Valley.
It was back in the late ‘70’s +/-. May have been in Santa’s Village. Some neurons forget.
To me, more like a Stradivarius, but I'm with you there!
I have custody of my 14-yo granddaughter and she LOVES musicals. I take her every chance I get.
We saw the Tina Turner musical in December, and it will be the standard by which I judge all future musicals.
I have custody of my 14-yo granddaughter and she LOVES musicals. I take her every chance I get.
We saw the Tina Turner musical in December, and it will be the standard by which I judge all future musicals.
My favorite will always be "Music Man".
(Though "Oklahoma" is a close 2nd, & I played Charlie Dalrymple in "Brigaddon" in HS - I used to be a rovin' lad! A rovin' and wanderin' life I had!)
The Music Man was one of my family’s favorites. Oklahoma & My Fair Lady were great, & there were some great songs in West Side Story. Wonderful music, & it’s a pity the movies are not on tv more often.
Especially the scene on the train.
My Dad's family immigrated from Holland settling in Pella, Iowa in the early 1860s.
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