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The Great American Songbook: Production Credits

The Great American Songbook - Production Credits

View the production credits for "The Great American Songbook."

Posted: Mar 11th, 2003  Comments: 0   Views: 1,257   
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The Great American Songbook: Creating “Porgy and Bess”

The Great American Songbook - Creating "Porgy and Bess"

"Porgy," the opera by Gershwin, nearly became "Porgy," the musical comedy by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II.

Posted: Mar 11th, 2003  Comments: 0   Views: 1,356   
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The Great American Songbook: Mr. Music and Mr. Words

The Great American Songbook - Mr. Music and Mr. Words

In 1938, TIME magazine wrote: "As Rodgers and Hart see it, what was killing music comedy was its sameness, its tameness, its eternal rhyming of June with moon."

Posted: Mar 11th, 2003  Comments: 1   Views: 1,541   
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The Great American Songbook: Introduction

The Great American Songbook - Introduction

The American movie musical transformed Hollywood into a Mecca for the biggest singing stars and leading songwriters of the '30s, '40s, and '50s.

Posted: Mar 11th, 2003  Comments: 2   Views: 7,025   
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Kiss Me, Kate: Production Credits

Kiss Me, Kate - Production Credits

View the production credits for "Kiss Me, Kate."

Posted: Feb 26th, 2003  Comments: 0   Views: 1,380   
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Kiss Me, Kate: Musical Selections

Kiss Me, Kate - Musical Selections

Learn more about the songs from "Kiss Me, Kate."

Posted: Feb 26th, 2003  Comments: 0   Views: 1,957   
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Kiss Me, Kate: A Smashing Revival

Kiss Me, Kate - A Smashing Revival

Cole Porter's 1948 score was his major effort at an "integrated" musical in the wake of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!" and "Carousel."

Posted: Feb 26th, 2003  Comments: 0   Views: 1,344   
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Kiss Me, Kate: Introduction

Kiss Me, Kate - Introduction

The first Broadway revival in nearly 50 years of the musical comedy masterpiece by composer Cole Porter and authors Sam and Bella Spewack.

Posted: Feb 26th, 2003  Comments: 3   Views: 10,029   
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