Irving Berlin may have been the best songwriter of the 20th century; he was certainly the best song publisher. Running his own company and promoting his own copyrights, Berlin was an expert at exploitation, finding new ways to sell old songs. One of his best ideas was to come up with, package, and sell to a studio a new movie musical that would ...
In 1967, James Lipton, a 40-year-old lyricist/librettist who had one Broadway flop (1962's Nowhere to Go But Up) behind him, got together with Laurence Rosenthal, a 40-year-old composer best known for the film Becket (1964), which had earned him an Academy Award nomination, and they wrote Sherry!, a musical based on George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart ...
As they had with Jesus Christ Superstar, Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber presented Evita, "an opera based on the life story of Eva Peron 1919-1952," as the album cover subtitle revealed, as a concept album before mounting a stage production. As hoped, the album became a hit, spawning a British number one hit, "Don't Cry for Me Argentina," as well ...
Captain Louie is a one-act children's musical based on Ezra Jack Keats' book The Trip about a child who moves to a new neighborhood and indulges in a fantasy about returning to his old neighborhood for Halloween. It has songs by Broadway veteran Stephen Schwartz. As revealed on this half-hour studio cast recording, the music is simple and charming ...
In 1976, 28-year-old Stephen Schwartz seemed to be the most successful Broadway songwriter of his generation, with three musicals playing in New York simultaneously: Godspell (which transferred to Broadway following a lengthy off-Broadway run during the year), Pippin, and The Magic Show. Schwartz's next musical was thus highly anticipated. It was ...
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