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The Light in the Piazza is a musical with music and lyrics by Adam Guettel, and a book by Craig Lucas.. Based on the 1960 novella by Elizabeth Spencer, the show is set in the 1950s and tells the story of Margaret Johnson, a wealthy woman from the American South, and Clara, her daughter, who is developmentally disabled due to a childhood accident.
Allegro is a musical by Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics), their third collaboration for the stage. Opening on Broadway on October 10, 1947, the musical centers on the life of Joseph Taylor Jr., who follows in the footsteps of his father as a doctor, but is tempted by fortune and fame at a big-city hospital.
The Night That Made America Famous is a 1975 musical revue featuring the songs of Harry Chapin. The music consists of a combination of songs written for the musical and songs from Chapin's four previous albums, the latter including "What Made America Famous?", a song about a plumber who rescues a group of hippies from a fire. A lyric from that ...
Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk (Irving Berlin song) Light at the End of the Tunnel (musical number) Light Sings; A Little Closer (Dear Evan Hansen song) Little Girls (Annie song) Little Known Facts; A Little Priest; Lonely Town (On the Town) Lorelei (George Gershwin song) Losing My Mind; Love Changes Everything (song) Love Makes the World Go ...
A Special Tony Award in 1984 for becoming Broadway's longest-running musical; Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1976; First ever Broadway production with 4,000, 5,000 and 6,000+ performances; Revival in 2006 (759 performances) 8 Oh! Calcutta! (1976 revival) R 5,959 [8] September 24, 1976: August 6, 1989: Original production in 1969 (1,314 performances)
The original Broadway cast recording was released by RCA Victor (RCA Victor 7983-2-RC), and it now is out of print. The most famous song "When I Get My Name in Lights" was re-done by Allen and his friend Harry Connick, Jr. on Allen's last album Making Every Moment Count. It also was included in the stage musical "The Boy from Oz," where it’s ...
The Sound of Music (1965) In one of the most classic musical films to date, Julie Andrews plays a governess who wins the hearts of the Von Trapp family in Nazi-era Austria. The result is a beloved ...
One of the most popular theatrical forms in the early decades of the 20th century in America was the operetta, and its most famous composer was Irish-born Victor Herbert. It was announced in 1912 that Italian-born operetta diva Emma Trentini would be starring on Broadway in a new operetta by Herbert with lyricist Otto Harbach entitled The Firefly.