Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Bugs Bunny on Broadway (also titled Bugs Bunny at the Symphony and Bugs Bunny at the Symphony II) is a concert musical featuring Looney Tunes characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Elmer Fudd. The production was conceived by George Daugherty, incorporating scores by Carl Stalling and Milt Franklyn.
Following is a list of notable actors and actresses from Broadway musicals This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
The story opens with a title card indicating a time setting of 1776, before switching to footages of the Battle of Bunker Hill and the Siege of Yorktown.The scene then transitions to the "Battle of Bagle Heights", where Bugs, dressed as an American Minuteman, is defending a wooden fort against the red-coated Sam von Schamm (or Schmamm), the Hessian, attacking from a large stone fortress.
Bugs points out that the Civil War ended almost 90 years ago, but his protests fall on deaf ears. Bugs uses a series of disguises in order to fool Sam: first a banjo-playing slave, then Abraham Lincoln , then " Brickwall Jackson ", then a Southern belle , and finally an injured Confederate soldier.
He appeared in 30 Broadway plays, [1] and more than 100 films, during a 50-year career, [2] and is best remembered for his tough-guy roles as gangsters in such films as Little Caesar and Key Largo. During his career, Robinson received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his performance in House of Strangers .
The short was released on December 17, 1960, and stars Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam. [2] The title is a play on the phrase lighter than air . It was one of three Bugs cartoons that Freleng both wrote and directed, the others being From Hare to Heir (1960) and Devil's Feud Cake (1963).
Sam punishes his servant for not having the books balanced. In a twist of fate, Bugs Bunny arrives at Sam's doorstep, offering a substantial sum of £1 million under a peculiar condition: Sam must maintain composure continuously to retain the entirety of the gift. Any lapse in temper results in a deduction, the severity determined by Bugs.
Second appearance of the Bugs Bunny prototype, as Sham-Fu the Magician's "Unnamed white rabbit" Public Domain; with the Two Curious Puppies; 3 Hare-um Scare-um: August 12 MM Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton: DVD/Blu-Ray: Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 2; Streaming: HBO Max; As "Bugs" Bunny" - given a re-design by Charles Thorson.