Posted on 05/31/2024 2:39:39 PM PDT by DallasBiff
1. “Rose’s Turn” from Gypsy (1959)
Throughout Gypsy, Mama Rose has pushed her children to be stars, even if it meant pushing them away from her. But in the show’s shattering climactic number, she finally takes center stage herself, if only in her mind. Built from fragments of prior songs in Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim’s classic score, this musical nervous breakdown—created by Sondheim and director Jerome Robbins in an inspired three-hour improvisation—takes Rose apart and reassembles the pieces into a sad and scary portrait of thwarted drive; the strenuous optimism of “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” her first-act finale, twists into the unquenchable need of “everything coming up Rose’s.” It’s a feast for actors; no wonder the top leading ladies of their generations, from Ethel Merman and Angela Lansbury through Bernadette Peters and Patti LuPone, have yearned to take their turns at it. As often as it’s been wrung out, the song remains inexhaustible.—Adam Feldma.
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PBS is premiering a show tonight at 9 PM Eastern on the 80th anniversary of Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Blakes 7 - Comedy Tonight - Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
https://youtu.be/WA5OaVFePbU
Harry Potter - One Night in Bangkok - Chess
https://youtu.be/lunoNtBjv_E
Sherlock Holmes - Arbiter - Chess
https://youtu.be/uS1x6kug6qM
Lord of the Rings - I Like Fighting - Shenendoah
https://youtu.be/E3Y05CyjLVY
I like Mad Magazine’s parodies in “Manny Get Your Ghoul”
Ooh. Ok
Eventually, a producer decided to do a stage version of Gigi and wanted a new song. But again, Loewe was retired.
Lerner got on a plane, went to Germany, went to Loewe's house, told him tehy needed a new song.
"I'm retired," said Loewe. But Lerner wouldn't leave until they wrote the song. Then Loewe went back into retirement.
“Oklahoma” became their state song, and their license plates quote Hammerstein: “Oklahoma is OK.”
Egads.
“Summertime” is just two spots ahead of “Memory”?!?
Anything from Sunday in the Park with George is on the list at all, let alone in the top 5?!?
“Ol’ Man River” is bested by “Rose’s Turn”?
Better no list at all than this travesty.
A Rivers Just a River
Yes, a great song from a great show. Greasepaint has about 6 or 7 great ones. The Beautiful Land, Feeling Good, and others.
I met Newley once outside the Shubert Theatre after a performance of The Roar of the Greasepaint — The Smell of the Crowd, which he co-wrote, directed, and starred in.
An impossible question, given West Side Story, South Pacific, Showboat, Camelot, Oklahoma, Music Man, My Fair Lady, Fiddler on the Roof, Sound of Music, The King and I...
Sondheim
Rogers an Hammerstein
Loewe
R&H
Merideth Wilson- the music man is so brilliant. They all are
Loewe
Fiddler is Jerry Bock.
R&H
R&H
Being Alive from Company
(And if you want to hear a dead-on description of marriage, listen to Sorry Grateful from Company.)
Sweet
yes, how’s JCS not on this list?
It’s from the movie, but “Love Power” from The Producers with Dick Shawn.
And The Money Kept Rolling In (And Out) from “Evita”
We agree. If I Love You from Carousel sung by Gordon McRae is just beautiful. No doubt my favorite musical of all time.
“Memory” from Cats isn’t in the top ten?
My sister and I text each other with ‘The Song of the Day’ and last week one of my picks was ‘Everything’s Coming Up Roses’ from ‘Gypsy,’ - the Ethyl Merman edition. :)
I love ALL the songs from ‘Oklahoma!’ I can sing them all; just ask, LOL!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH2X8Q15hZY&list=PL95E432620C1FC872
Faves:
‘People Will Say We’re in Love’
‘Many a New Day’
‘I Cain’t Say No’
I need to proofread my posts just a little better. It’s “If I Loved You”.
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