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AMERICAN MUSICALS 1866 - 1957. Association France/Etats Unis 10 octobre 2012 Marie-Paule Rondepierre et Bette- Blythe Francis. The Black Crook. Theatre District or « Great White Way » area near intersection of 42nd Street with Broadway at Times Square.
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AMERICAN MUSICALS1866 - 1957 Association France/Etats Unis 10 octobre 2012 Marie-Paule Rondepierre et Bette-Blythe Francis
Theatre Districtor« Great White Way »area near intersection of 42nd Street with Broadway at Times Square
MAJOR COMPOSERS AND LIBRETTISTS OF AMERICAN MUSICALS1920 - 1960 • Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart • JeromeKern and Oscar Hammerstein • Cole Porter • Irving Berlin • George and Ira Gershwin • Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein • Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner • Leonard Bernstein • Stephen Sondheim
Irene Sheet music for 1919 production with Edith Day 1973 revival with Debbie Reynolds
« Show Boat »1927 Broadway musicalbyJerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein « Ol’ Man River » from 1951 Film sung by William Warfield
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers • Flying Down to Rio (Carioca) 1933 • The Gay Divorcee (La joyeuse divorcée) 1934 • Roberta (Roberta) 1935 • Top Hat (Le danseur du dessus) 1935 • Follow the Fleet (En suivant la flotte) 1936 • Swing Time (Sur les ailes de la danse) 1936 • ShallWe Dance (L’entreprenant Mr. Petrov) 1937 • Carefree (Amanda) 1938 • The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle 1939 (La grande farandole) • The Barclays of Broadway (Entrons dans la danse) 1949
« SWING TIME »1936Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers • Songs by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Field • Song and Dance excerpts: « Pick Yourself Up » « Never Gonna Dance »
Richard Rodgers (l) and Oscar Hammerstein (r) with Irving Berlin(photo from 1948)
« OKLAHOMA! »1943 Broadway musicalby Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein « Oklahoma! » sung by Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, and the cast From the 1955 film
RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN MUSICALTHEATREFILM Oklahoma 1943 1955 Carousel 1945 1956 State Fair 1996 1945 & 1962 Allegro 1947 South Pacific 1949 1958 The King and I 1951 1956 Me and Juliet 1953 Pipe Dream 1955 FlowerDrum Song 1958 & 2002 1961 The Sound of Music 1959 1965
SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN1952 filmstarring Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O’Connor, and Jean HagenSongs by Adolph Green and Betty Comden
« WEST SIDE STORY »1957 Broadway musicalbyLeonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim « America » sung by Rita Moreno, George Chakiris and the cast in the 1961 film