The 1996 season celebrated such Golden-Age songwriters as George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Rodgers & Hart, Otto Harbach and Anne Caldwell (the most successful female writer of Broadway musicals ever) and includes a special Lost Musical from the '70s as well as a cabaret revue saluting lyricist E.Y. (Yip) Harburg!
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| April 11 - 28 | (1955) Cole Porter's romantic and witty score highlights this '50s era version of the classic film "Ninotchka," about a beautiful but humorless Russian Commissar who is transformed by the magic of Paris. Songs include "All of You," "Stereophonic Sound" and "Paris Loves Lovers." | |
| May 8 - 26 | (1925) Rodgers and Hart's charming and sly tale of American Revolutionary war lasses who seduce British soldiers to keep them from battles. Songs include "Here in My Arms," "Where the Hudson River Flows," and "Bye and Bye." | |
| June 6 - 23 | (1975) Nominated for 7 Tony Awards, this long forgotten musical by Larry Grossman and Hal Hackady retells the story of Joan of Arc and the Dauphin of France as a very funny and ultimately touching comedy. The beautiful but virtually unknown score includes "To Make the Boy a Man," "Goodtime Charley" and "I Leave the World." | |
| Sept. 19-29 | A cabaret revue celebrating the centenary anniversary of lyricist Y.E. "Yip" Harburg ó featuring songs like "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?", "Over the Rainbow," Here's to Your Illusions," and "Old Devil Moon" from such plays and movies as "Finian's Rainbow," "Bloomer Girl," "Flahooley," "Hooray for What," "The Wizard of Oz" and "Gay Purr-ee." Composers represented include Harold Arlen, Jule Styne, Vernon Duke, Jerome Kern and Jay Gorney. | |
| October 2 - 20 | (1920) One of the great smash hits of the twenties, Jerome Kern and Anne Caldwell's blithe and hilarious fable about mixed identities and romantic escapades on the night boat to Albany includes the songs "The Left-All-Along Blues," "Whose Baby Are You?", "A Heart for Sale" and "Don't You Want to Take Me?" | |
| October 31 - November 17 | (1933) Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach's classic score ("Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," "Yesterdays," "The Touch of Your Hand," "Lovely to Look At," and "I'll Be Hard to Handle") highlights this ultra-sophisticated and amusing tale of an American college jock who inherits a Parisian dress salon.
Special: The Songs of Roberta This production of "Roberta" was dedicated to the memory of Betty Kern Miller, 1918-1996 |
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| November 29 - December 15 | (1925) We are proud to present George and Ira Gershwin's Lady Be Good!, the first great jazz-age musical. Fred and Adele Astaire originally starred in this whimsical and funny tale of brother and sister team Dick and Susie Trevor's adventures with missing mills and haughty heiresses; the great score includes "Fascinating Rhythm," "Lady Be Good," "Little Jazz Bird," "So Am I," and "I'd Rather Charleston." |
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