Category Archives: Broadway

October 12, 2010 · 9:35 pm

Happy Birthday, Hugh Jackman

Since today is Hugh Jackman’s 42nd Birthday, I’m going to repost this one…..

Broadway Memories:  Hugh Jackman as Peter Allen In “The Boy From Oz”

One of our great nights in the Theatre, a few seasons ago, was to see Hugh Jackman in “The Boy From Oz” on Broadway.  If you only know him as Wolverine, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

This guy is amazing on stage.  He totally captured Peter Allen’s style and personae.  Peter was a showman and Hugh definitely is one, too.

And he never missed a performance during the entire run of the show.

Here are some clips:

And a couple of clips of the real, late,  great, Peter Allen:

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October 9, 2010 · 9:07 pm

‘Jersey Boys’ Finally Heading to the Big Screen – The Moviefone Blog

This is great news.  Ever since I saw this for the first time in New York, I thought it would be an even better film than a Broadway show.  I hope they do this right….

Oh, what a night — if there’s one musical Hollywood’s been eager to get its hands on, it’s ‘Jersey Boys’ — also known as the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. The production has done killer business, pulling in over a billion dollars worldwide since its debut five years ago, while also earning four Tony Awards (including the weighty Best Musical) and a Grammy when the tunes were put on CD.

With solid success, ‘Jersey Boys’ powered forward with no Hollywood plans in sight, but all of that changed six weeks ago. The screen rights were made available, an auction commenced and after a big seven-figure deal, Graham King’s GK Films will whip the stage story into a feature film.

via ‘Jersey Boys’ Finally Heading to the Big Screen – The Moviefone Blog.

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October 7, 2010 · 11:58 pm

L’Chaim: Puerto Rican/Jewish Broadway Musical Wedding Video

Fun video from the wedding reception of Tony Award Winner Lin-Manuel Miranda, the guy who wrote “In the Heights” on Broadway.

It’s kind of a Puerto Rican/Jewish wedding thing…

I loved it…

When they legalize Gay Marriage in North Carolina, I expect our friends to recreate this…

 

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October 7, 2010 · 12:04 am

Sammy Davis, Jr: It Ain’t Necessarily So…

There’s a great CD recording of  “Porgy and Bess”  with Sammy and Ella…

Here’s Sammy doing a great job of covering the male songs on a TV Special from 1973:

 

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September 18, 2010 · 2:33 am

No One Puts Baby in the Corner: Patrick Swayze

In memory of Patick Swazye who died one year ago on Sept 14.

He has at least one of cinema’s unforgettable lines to remember him by…

Here’s a good clip of “the line”:

and a better clip of “the dance”

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September 18, 2010 · 1:17 am

A Good “Survivor” Song for a Friday Night

I love Shirley Bassey and this song…

It’s Sondheim from “Follies”.  Originally done by Yvonne DeCarlo, for whom it was written and on whose life it was based.

But I’m saving that version to post for my Birthday!

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September 16, 2010 · 4:29 pm

Leave Me In New York

This is a song from an artist I just discovered named “Hope.”

I kind of like it….

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August 28, 2010 · 12:02 am

Eileen Farrell

I discovered Eileen Farrell when I took a chance on a CD at Best Buy about 20 years ago.  I had never heard of her, but she was one of my great discoveries.  Steve and I both have loved her for years.

Eileen was an Opera Singer.  She was a Diva who sang at the Met, but  left it all to marry a Cop and move to Brooklyn.  She was later a college professor in Maine, but then she sang standards in her later years.

She’s not well known today, but she’s one of my favorites…

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August 15, 2010 · 2:48 am

Pretty Women/ The Ladies Who Lunch

Streisand at her best… a slight connection to my latest Blog Post on m other blog;  MySouthernGothicLife.com

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July 24, 2010 · 1:55 am

The One That Got Away…

This is the one Broadway show I still regret missing– at least during the time I could have gone to New York and seen it.

I really hate I didn’t get my act together to go see Rebecca Luker, Lonette McKee and the others in  the 199o’s revival of “Show Boat”.  It seems most similar to the 1930’s film that I love.  The 1950’s MGM version is just too bland…

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