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MUSICAL SELECTIONS
Visit the GREAT PERFORMANCES companion Web site for several of the shows that are highlighted in this celebration by clicking on the program's title.
Overture and "Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats"
CATS
Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lloyd Webber, T.S. Eliot
The Company
"Memory"
CATS
Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Trevor Nunn
Elaine Paige
"I Can't Be Bothered Now"
CRAZY FOR YOU
Music and Lyrics by George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
Jim Walton, the "Zangler Girls"
"Why Was I Born?"
SOME ENCHANTED EVENING: CELEBRATING OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
Music and Lyrics by Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II
Vanessa Williams
"We Can Do It"
RECORDING 'THE PRODUCERS': A MUSICAL ROMP WITH MEL BROOKS
Music and Lyrics by Mel Brooks
Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick
"Big Spender"
FROM BROADWAY: FOSSE
Music and Lyrics by Cy Coleman, Dorothy Fields
Ann Reinking, The Ladies
"Bring Him Home" and Finale
LES MISÉRABLES IN CONCERT
Music and Lyrics by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer
Colm Wilkinson, The Company
"I Could Write a Book"
HARRY CONNICK, JR. & HIS ORCHESTRA: SWINGING OUT WITH HARRY
Music and Lyrics by Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
Harry Connick, Jr., Orchestra
"My Heart Will Go On"
PAVAROTTI & FRIENDS
Music and Lyrics by James Horner, Will Jennings
Celine Dion
"Late in the Evening"
PAUL SIMON: YOU'RE THE ONE - IN CONCERT FROM PARIS
Music and Lyrics by Paul Simon
Paul Simon, the Band
"Unforgettable"
UNFORGETTABLE, WITH LOVE: NATALIE COLE SINGS THE SONGS OF NAT KING COLE
Music and Lyrics by Irving Gordon
Natalie Cole
"That's Life"
BARYSHNIKOV BY THARP WITH AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE
Music and Lyrics by Dean Kay, Kelly Gordon
Mikhail Baryshnikov, Elaine Kudo
Top banner photos: Nathan Lane hosts the GREAT PERFORMANCES 30TH ANNIVERSARY special (photo by Joe Sinnott); Jessye Norman from KATHLEEN BATTLE AND JESSYE NORMAN SING SPIRITUALS (1990); Liza Minnelli in SONDHEIM: A CELEBRATION AT CARNEGIE HALL (1993). |
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Bobby McFerrin hosted and performed in the 1996 program BOBBY MCFERRIN: LOOSELY MOZART. |
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Songstress Julie Andrews debuted on the series in 1990 with JULIE ANDREWS IN CONCERT. |
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