Broadway: The American Musical on PBS Tonight
Broadway: The American Musical on PBS Tonight
CurtainUp2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/8/04
#0Broadway: The American Musical on PBS Tonight
Posted: 10/19/04 at 6:00pm
Just a reminder:
Broadway: The American Musical - Three Part Series
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/
Part One
Tonight, Tuesday Oct. 19 at 9PM on PBS
Part Two
Wednesday Oct. 20 at 9PM on PBS
Part Three
Thursday Oct. 21 at 9PM on PBS
*Also available on DVD with 5 additional bonus hours of material.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
- Nelson Mandela
Updated On: 10/19/04 at 06:00 PM
CurtainUp2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/8/04
#1re: Broadway: The American Musical on PBS Tonight
Posted: 10/19/04 at 6:19pmAnyone planning on watching?
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
- Nelson Mandela
#2re: Broadway: The American Musical on PBS Tonight
Posted: 10/19/04 at 6:20pmi will be tivo-ing it
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broadwayfan24
Leading Actor Joined: 7/7/04
#3re: Broadway: The American Musical on PBS Tonight
Posted: 10/19/04 at 6:29pm
I'll be watching that on and off with the YANKEE game.
Shermanslave- LOVE THE PICTURE OF ENDORA!!!
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#4re: Broadway: The American Musical on PBS Tonight
Posted: 10/19/04 at 9:13pm
Watching.
Taping.
and typing about it - if anyone wants to comment...
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#5re: Broadway: The American Musical on PBS Tonight
Posted: 10/19/04 at 9:20pmawww...James Cagney. So sweet!
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#6re: Broadway: The American Musical on PBS Tonight
Posted: 10/19/04 at 9:21pm
Julie Andrews just pronounced George M. Cohen as "coe-HAHN."
It makes him sound like a pair of Cole-Haan Shoes! :)
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#7re: Broadway: The American Musical on PBS Tonight
Posted: 10/19/04 at 9:24pm
LOL, M_E - I thought the same thing!!
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#8re: Broadway: The American Musical on PBS Tonight
Posted: 10/19/04 at 9:47pm
Miles Kruger, the historian commenting on SHOW BOAT, wrote a WONDERFUL book about the making of SHOW BOAT.
It's a must!!! :)
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#9re: Broadway: The American Musical on PBS Tonight
Posted: 10/19/04 at 9:49pmM_E - I'm printing out every thread you post on! GREAT info!
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#10re: Broadway: The American Musical on PBS Tonight
Posted: 10/19/04 at 9:55pmok - pledge time. Time to chat... is everybody watching?
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
ponine24601
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/03
#11re: Broadway: The American Musical on PBS Tonight
Posted: 10/19/04 at 9:55pmi'm taping it!
"People asking questions, lost in confusion. Well I tell them there's no problems, only solutions."
~The one and only John Lennon
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#12re: Broadway: The American Musical on PBS Tonight
Posted: 10/19/04 at 9:56pmme, too. Taping watching and typing here...
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#13re: Broadway: The American Musical on PBS Tonight
Posted: 10/19/04 at 9:57pmAddy, STOP IT! (I'm blushing)
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#14re: Broadway: The American Musical on PBS Tonight
Posted: 10/19/04 at 9:59pm
No blushing! It's the truth!
(...guess that wasn't a pledge break, after all...)
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#15re: Broadway: The American Musical on PBS Tonight
Posted: 10/19/04 at 10:04pmZelma O'Neal (singing "I Want To Be Bad")was a VERY POPULAR comic/singer in the late 1920s and 1930s, appearing both on stage and in films.
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
GovernorSlaton
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/04
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#17re: Broadway: The American Musical on PBS Tonight
Posted: 10/19/04 at 10:11pm
Marilyn Miller was THE Broadway Female Star of the 1920s (think Patti LuPone or Betty Buckley today) and her three big hits were SALLY, SUNNY, and ROSALIE.
Her best-known song (from SALLY) was "Look For The Silver Lining," also the title of her Hollywood biopic released in 1949.
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#18re: Broadway: The American Musical on PBS Tonight
Posted: 10/19/04 at 10:14pm
Al Jolson was Jewish and the son of a Cantor.
He starred in the first Talkie, THE JAZZ SINGER(1927), which was a fictionalized account of his life.
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#19re: Broadway: The American Musical on PBS Tonight
Posted: 10/19/04 at 10:18pmThe songs of Eubie Blake (composer of SHUFFLE ALONG) were featured in the 1978 Broadway Musical EUBIE!
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#20re: Broadway: The American Musical on PBS Tonight
Posted: 10/19/04 at 10:19pmsaw that one...
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#21re: Broadway: The American Musical on PBS Tonight
Posted: 10/19/04 at 10:21pm"I'm Just Wild About Harry" (from SHUFFLE ALONG) was a BIG hit in the 1920s and later used as Harry Truman's campaign song.
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
GovernorSlaton
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/04
#22re: Broadway: The American Musical on PBS Tonight
Posted: 10/19/04 at 10:26pm
Patti and Betty aren't quite THE Broadway actressess of today. Perhaps Marilyn was more like...Idina...
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#23re: Broadway: The American Musical on PBS Tonight
Posted: 10/19/04 at 10:29pmAlthough "Swanee" was a HUGE hit for Al Jolson, it is now identified with Judy Garland who sang it in the film A STAR IS BORN (1954) and performed at her concerts ever since.
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#24re: Broadway: The American Musical on PBS Tonight
Posted: 10/19/04 at 10:31pm
Probably so, Gov. :)
My present-day references are not as good as my older ones! :)
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
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