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#1

Broadway: 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

#2

re: Broadway: The American Musical on PBS Tonight

Posted: 10/19/04 at 6:19pm

Anyone 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
#5

re: 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. . ."
#7

re: 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."
#9

re: 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."
#10

re: Broadway: The American Musical on PBS Tonight

Posted: 10/19/04 at 9:49pm

M_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. . ."
#11

re: Broadway: The American Musical on PBS Tonight

Posted: 10/19/04 at 9:55pm

ok - pledge time. Time to chat... is everybody watching?
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
#12

re: Broadway: The American Musical on PBS Tonight

Posted: 10/19/04 at 9:55pm

i'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
#14

re: Broadway: The American Musical on PBS Tonight

Posted: 10/19/04 at 9:57pm

Addy, 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."
#15

re: 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. . ."
#16

re: Broadway: The American Musical on PBS Tonight

Posted: 10/19/04 at 10:04pm

Zelma 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."
#18

re: 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."
#19

re: 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."
#20

re: Broadway: The American Musical on PBS Tonight

Posted: 10/19/04 at 10:18pm

The 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."
#22

re: 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."
#24

re: Broadway: The American Musical on PBS Tonight

Posted: 10/19/04 at 10:29pm

Although "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."
#25

re: 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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