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Summer Stock is a 1950 American Technicolor musical film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Charles Walters, stars Judy Garland and Gene Kelly, and features Eddie Bracken, Gloria DeHaven, Marjorie Main, and Phil Silvers. Musical numbers were staged by Nick Castle and Kelly. Garland struggled with many personal problems during ...
In the 1920s, summer stock expanded: The Muny, St. Louis, Missouri (1919) is the nation's oldest and largest outdoor musical theater; Manhattan Theatre Colony, first started near Peterborough, New Hampshire (1927) and moved to Ogunquit, Maine; Gretna Theatre, Mount Gretna, Pennsylvania (1927) as part of the Chautauqua movement; [10] the Cape Playhouse, Dennis, Massachusetts (1927); and the ...
Summer Stock is a musical with a book by Cheri Steinkellner. The show includes many of the songs from the original 1950 film of the same name that starred Judy Garland and Gene Kelly, including Get Happy. [1] [2] The musical is set in the 1950s in New England, where Jane Falbury runs her family farm. Her sister Gloria returns home with her ...
The original soundtrack to the film Summer Stock was released by MGM Records as a set of four 10-inch 78-rpm shellac records [1] and as a 10-inch 33-rpm long-play. [4] The soundrack featured songs performed by Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Phil Silvers and Gloria DeHaven.
The versions from Summer Stock finished at #61 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema. An instrumental, hot jazz arrangement of the song, performed by Abe Lyman 's Brunswick Recording Orchestra, served as the original theme music for Warner Bros. ' Merrie Melodies cartoons from 1931 to 1933.
The Kenley Players was an Equity summer stock theatre company which presented hundreds of productions [1] featuring Broadway, film, and television stars [2] in Midwestern cities between 1940 and 1995. Variety called it the "largest network of theaters on the straw hat circuit."
John Kenley (February 20, 1906 – October 23, 2009) was an American theatrical producer who pioneered the use of television stars in summer stock productions. In 1950, he was the first producer to desegregate live theater in Washington, DC.
Stock theater may refer to: Repertory theatre , a Western theatre or opera production by a resident company Summer stock theater , an American theater that presents stage productions only in the summer