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It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues is a revue that traces the evolution of the blues from Africa and slavery through the end of the 20th century, ... More

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Franz Waxman's score for Peyton Place was a key element in what was an unexpectedly classy and well-made movie, made from what was generally regarded ... More

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Performed by The London Philharmonic Orchestra and National Philharmonic Orchestra. The Citizen Kane material isn't as interesting as that on Charles ... More

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Lauded composer George Fenton (Anna and the King, The Crucible) provides director Stephen Frears' tale of London's famed Windmill Theatre with equal ... More

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Originally conceived as a simple recording production, Les Miserables evolved quickly into one of the premiere theatre events of the 1980s. ... More

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Rodgers and Hammerstein were relatively uninvolved in the movie version of their second musical, Carousel, which was the least successful of three ... More

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Coming along in the summer of 1962, four and a half years after the Broadway opening, the film version of The Music Man appeared in an era when ... More

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Composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II, who controlled the rights to their record-breaking landmark musical Oklahoma!, ... More

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In 1978 Alan Menken and Howard Ashman created a new musical take on Roger Corman's 1960 film Little Shop Of Horrors, which became a Broadway hit. ... More

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By the 1990s, with ticket prices skyrocketing and the number of new musicals dropping, revivals had gained added importance on Broadway. There seemed ... More

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Kiss Me, Kate was the most successful Broadway musical of Cole Porter's career, much to his and everyone else's surprise. Porter was thought to be in ... More

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Composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II, who controlled the rights to their record-breaking landmark musical Oklahoma!, ... More

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With a run of 607 performances, 1960's Bye Bye Birdie was the first Broadway success for songwriters Charles Strouse (music) and Lee Adams (lyrics), ... More

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Like all Broadway musicals, Bye Bye Birdie underwent some changes on its way to the big screen. In the case of this show, a parody of the 1950s rock ... More

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Though it used to be said that Broadway musicals (some of them, anyway) were intended for "the tired businessman," they were not usually about ... More

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Director David Leveaux, in his liner notes to this, the cast album for the 2004 Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof, speaks of the necessity of ... More

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After the lengthy run of its initial Broadway production, songwriter Jerry Herman and librettist Harvey Fierstein's musical adaptation of the gay ... More

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There have been many albums on which Broadway composers, sometimes through demos, sometimes recorded at gatherings such as New York's 92nd Street ... More

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