CONTENTS: Cassette 1 (approx. 37 min.): Gypsy: "Everything's coming up roses." Mus/lyrics: Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim. Sung by Ethel Merman. -- Can can: "Quadrille." Chor: Michael Kidd; mus: Cole Porter. Danced by Gail Benedict and the American Dance Machine. -- Ain't misbehavin': "Cash for your trash." Mus/lyrics: Fats Waller, Ed Kirkeby. Sung by Nell Carter. -- Company: "You could drive a person crazy." Mus/lyrics: Sondheim. Perf. by Donna McKechnie, Susan Browning, Pamela Myers. -- A chorus line: "I can do that." Chor: Michael Bennett; mus/lyrics: Martin Hamlisch, Edward Kleban. Perf. by Wayne Cilento. -- Irene: "You made me love you." Mus/lyrics: Joseph McCarthy, James Monaco. Sung by Debbie Reynolds. -- The fantasticks: "Try to remember." Mus/lyrics: Harvey Schmidt, Tom Jones. Sung by Jerry Orbach. -- Bye bye Birdie: "The Shriner ballet." Chor: Gower Champion; mus/lyrics: Charles Strouse, Lee Adams. Perf. by Chita Rivera and the American Dance Machine. -- Cassette 2 (approx. 62 min.): Grease: "Summer nights." Mus/lyrics: Jim Jacobs, Warren Casey. Perf. by Barry Bostwick, Carole Demas. -- House of flowers: "A sleepin' bee." Mus/lyrics: Harold Arlen, Truman Capote. Sung by Diahann Carroll. -- Greenwillow: "Never will I marry." Mus/lyrics: Frank Loesser. Sung by Anthony Perkins. -- Godspell: "All for the best." Mus/lyrics: Stephen Schwartz. Perf. by Stephen Nathan, David Haskell. -- Ain't misbehavin': "Mean to me."
Mus/lyrics: Roy Turk, Fred E. Ahlert. Sung by Carter. -- How to succeed in business without really trying: "I believe in you." Mus/lyrics: Loesser. Sung by Robert Morse. -- Follies: "Could I leave you." Mus/lyrics: Sondheim. Sung by Alexis Smith. -- Over here!: "Charlie's place." Chor: Patricia Birch. Mus/lyrics: Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman. Perf. by McKechnie, Cilento, and the American Dance Machine. -- Unknown program celebrating Northwestern University's Department of Theatre -- Cassette 3 (approx. 39 min.): Tenderloin: "Little old New York." Chor: Joe Layton. Mus/lyrics: Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick. Perf. by René Ceballos, Rivera, and the American Dance Machine. -- Sweeney Todd: "Pretty women." Mus/lyrics: Sondheim. Sung by Len Cariou. -- A little night music: "Send in the clowns." Mus/lyrics: Sondheim. Sung by Glynis Johns, with Cariou. -- Annie get your gun: "They say it's wonderful." Mus/lyrics: Irving Berlin. Sung by Merman. -- Damn Yankees: "Those were the days." Mus/lyrics: Richard Adler, Jerry Ross. Sung by Ray Walston. -- The sound of music: "Do re mi." Mus/lyrics: Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II. Sung by Mary Martin, with children's ensemble. -- 42nd Street: "The lullaby of Broadway." Mus/lyrics: Harry Warren, Al Dubin.
Call number
*MGZIDF 8681
Note
Recorded in performance at La Mirada Civic Theater, La Mirada, California. A Woodcliff Production, presented by the Entertainment Channel. Distributed by Lorimar. Producer: Iris Merlis. Director: Rob Iscove. Executive producer: Michael Brandman. Writers: Ken Shapiro, Leonora Thuna, Brandman. Host: Tom Bosley.
Choreography: Various, reconstructed by the American Dance Machine, directed by Lee Becker Theodore. Costumes: John David Ridge. Lighting: Ken Billington.
There is a 24 minute segment from another event at the end of Cassette 2, from Northwestern University Department of Theatre alumni.
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Title
Broadway [electronic resource]
Imprint
c1982.
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Funding
Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.