Making Broadway musicals: An interview with Jess Goldstein

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-383
Author(s):  
Joanna Dee Das
Keyword(s):  
Broadway Musicals

‘An Elegant Legacy?’

2019 ◽  
pp. 181-203
Author(s):  
Danielle Birkett
Keyword(s):  
Archival Research ◽  
Animated Film ◽  
Political Message ◽  
Broadway Musicals ◽  
Frank Sinatra

Different issues challenged the screen adaptation of Finian’s Rainbow, which was one of the most successful Broadway musicals of the 1940s but took more than twenty years to be released as a film. Using archival research, this chapter reveals the frustrated early attempts to make Finian’s into an animated film musical, partly blighted by the blacklisting of lyricist E. Y. Harburg in 1951. Ex-Disney animator John Hubley was hired to work on the film and created more than 400 storyboard sketches, designs, and character drafts for the movie. By 1954, ten key songs had been recorded by leading artists such as Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and Louis Armstrong; indeed, in an attempt to make the project as commercial as possible, Sinatra was assigned a part in nearly all the songs. A new prologue was added and changes were made to the story to soften its vigorous political message, but for a mixture of political and financial reasons the production was abruptly closed down; Finian’s Rainbow would not reach the screen until late the following decade.

Enough Already!: It's Deborah Kass's Turn to Take the Stage

2011 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 110-123
Author(s):  
Constance Zaytoun
Keyword(s):  
Andy Warhol ◽  
Jackson Pollock ◽  
Broadway Musicals ◽  
Post War

Contemporary painter Deborah Kass appropriates the forms of post-war masters such as Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, and Frank Stella in her work, but her subject choices are often conscious manifestations of her nostalgic identifications with middlebrow Jewish artists and Broadway musicals. Her radical take on nostalgia draws from lyrics, idiomatic sayings, and iconic Jewish figures to promote a progressive rather than conservative agenda. Kass's performative interventions insert her feminist-Jewish-lesbian self squarely at the center of visual culture's frame and on the stage of art's history.

The complete book of 1940s Broadway musicals

2015 ◽  
Vol 52 (12) ◽  
pp. 52-6193-52-6193
Keyword(s):  
Broadway Musicals

Broadway musicals, 1943-2004

2006 ◽  
Vol 44 (03) ◽  
pp. 44-1268-44-1268
Keyword(s):  
Broadway Musicals

The complete book of 1960s Broadway musicals

2014 ◽  
Vol 52 (01) ◽  
pp. 52-0010-52-0010
Keyword(s):  
Broadway Musicals

The American Invasion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominic Symonds
Keyword(s):  
Sharp Contrast ◽  
Typical Material ◽  
Broadway Musicals ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Impact

This chapter considers the impact of ‘the American invasion’: a slew of Broadway musicals led by Oklahoma! and Annie Get Your Gun that captivated and shocked audiences when they opened in 1947 in London. Arriving in a country mired in post-war rationing and rehabilitation, they offered a sharp contrast to the typical material on the British musical stage. To understand the transatlantic dynamics that are its context, it is useful to consider how contemporary America projected itself, and how the British perceived Americans. With Hollywood images of virile action heroes, and with American GIs stationed on British soil, Brits encountered a new and forceful sexuality that the energy of the post-war Broadway imports evoked. As the staid morals of the pre-war era gave way to the excitement of the new, the British musical responded with the punchy riposte of a new Novello show: Gay’s the Word.

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