As Thousands of Cheers is a relic with a book by Moss Hart and music and lyrics by Irving Berlin, first appearing in 1933. This recall contains a satirical sketch and musical figures that intelligent or poignant. , some of which became standard, including "Heat Wave", "Easter Parade", and "Harlem in My Mind". The sketches were based on the news and life and affairs of the rich and famous, and others in those days, such as Joan Crawford, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Noon Coward, Josephine Baker, and Aimee Semple McPherson.
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The revue is the successor of the creators of Face the Music and is the last stage performance of Marilyn Miller before his death. It was also the first Broadway show to give African-American star, Ethel Waters, who is the same as the whites.
Moss Hart said he and Irving Berlin did not want to write a typical reading with "fraud sketches" and music numbers, and they had the idea of ​​canceling the topic "directly from the front page of the newspaper." Berlin suspended its own expense as a composer, lyricist, and theater owner, keeping the show cost for "controlled" $ 96,000.
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Synopsis
Each of the 21 scenes was preceded by headline related newspapers, and the sketches mocked various subjects, including Barbara Hutton's misery, Gandhi, and British royalty; weather reports converted into a song ("Heat Wave"); President and Mrs. Hoover left the White House, with the President giving his cabinet a Bronx cheer; "The Feast of Banquet", the laments of African-American women to her hanged husband; John D. Rockefeller refused to accept Radio City Music Hall as a birthday present; ad annoying singing during broadcast Opera Metropolitan (P.D.Q.Bach then do this); hotel staff who fall under the influence of NoÃÆ'Â »Coward; and a Supreme Court decision that says the musical can not end with a reprise, generates a new number, "Not For All Rice In China" (a satirizing relationship of Barbara Hutton with Alexis Mdivani), in closing.
Music number selected
- "Majestic Sails at Midnight" - Helen Broderick, Leslie Adams, Jerome Cowan, Hal Forde, Harry Stockwell
- "How?" - Marilyn Miller, Clifton Webb
- "The Funnies" - Marilyn Miller
- "Easter Parade" - Marilyn Miller, Clifton Webb
- "Our Wedding Day" - Marilyn Miller, Clifton Webb
- "Heat Wave Hits New York" - Ethel Waters
- "Be Or Not To Be" - Ethel Waters
- "Dinner Time" - Ethel Waters
- "Harlem in My Mind" - Ethel Waters
- "Lonely Heart" - dancing
- "Not for All Rice in China" - Marilyn Miller, Clifton Webb
Removed from 1998 resurrection
Productions
The update opened on Broadway at the Music Box Theater on 30 September 1933 and became a hit, running for 400 shows, which was rare during the Great Depression. It was staged by Hassard Short with choreography by Charles Weidman. The film stars Helen Broderick, Marilyn Miller, Clifton Webb and Ethel Waters, and features JosÃÆ'Â © LimÃÆ'³n as the main dancer. The London-based show, titled Stop Press , opened on February 21, 1935 at Adelphi Theater.
In 1934, Dorothy Stone took over the role played by Miller.
The Drama Department presented the results at the Greenwich House Theater outside Broadway from June 2, 1998 to June 14, 1998. Directed by Christopher Ashley with musical performances by Kathleen Marshall, the cast includes Kevin Chamberlin, Judy Kuhn, Howard McGillin, Paula Newsome, Mary Beth Peil and BD Wong. Reviews are very positive. This show has a number of other revivals both in the US and internationally.
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References
- Description of the cancellation and list of scenes in guidetomusicaltheatre
- Bergreen, Laurence (1996). As Thousands of Cheers: The Life of Irving Berlin . Da Capo Press. ISBN: 0-306-80675-4
- R & amp; H Speech
External links
- As Thousands of Cheers on the Broadway Internet Database
- List of Lortell 1998 revivals
- Information from the Musical Heaven website
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