
Hollywood finally did right by Leonard Bernstein with West Side Story. It had a lot to make up for. Seventy percent of his score for
Kismet is everyone’s favorite crossover show, set in the fabled city of Baghdad, where East meets West, opera collaborates with Tin Pan Alley, and Broadway
The music for this ever popular show was almost written by Jerome Kern, but just days before he was to start work on the project,
The music from this show has been delighting audiences for more than three quarters of a century, but though there have been a few good
Though they had re-composed bits and pieces of existing classical works for film, Song of Norway was the first effort by Robert Wright and George
My Fair Lady was one of the first cast recordings I ever owned. I played it over and over, finding Julie Andrews a marvel and
This musical, based on the popular 1953 movie starring Doris Day, contains the hit “Secret Love”, which won the 1953 Oscar for best song. For
There are two wonderful recordings of Cabaret already in the catalog: the original cast and the recent 1998 revival cast in its marvelous, dark production.
South Pacific was one of the longest running musicals on Broadway. As a music “drama” it was instrumental in changing the course of musical theater,
110 in the Shade, based on the popular play The Rainmaker, was produced in 1963 and was highly praised for its intelligent book, as well