Broadway and Baseball

[Unknown User]

Broadway and Baseball#0

Posted: 10/14/03 at 11:18pm

Is it possible to love Broadway and baseball...well not all baseball....Yankees baseball! ?

Broadway to the Bronx....Ya gotta love it!

Bulldog.

p.s. how many baseball plays/musicals can you think of? Updated On: 10/14/03 at 11:18 PM

[WhatDoINeedWithLove?]

re: Broadway and Baseball#1

Posted: 10/14/03 at 11:23pm

I love baseball! GO CUBS! And Im obsessed with Bway...Damn Yankees, Take Me Out...

[StinKer Roadmann]

re: re: Broadway and Baseball#2

Posted: 10/14/03 at 11:26pm

LOL! I'm a big Yankee fan and I love broadway too! I was happy they beat Boston (::hiss::) today!

"I'm sorry, you must've mistaken me for somebody else. My name is Anastasia Beaverhausen."

[MasterLcZ]

re: re: Broadway and Baseball#3

Posted: 10/14/03 at 11:39pm

A forgotten 1930 MGM Musical, THEY LEARNED ABOUT WOMEN stars Bessie Love and vaudeville stars Gus Van & Joe Schenck. With a score by Jack Yellen & Milton Ager, it concerns two ballplayers, Jack (Schenck) and Jerry (Van) when not playing professional baseball with the Blue Sox, they are packing them in on the Vaudeville circuit. Jack is engaged to Mary (Love), but a gold digger named Daisy (Mary Doran) has worked her way into his confidence. When Mary sees Jack and Daisy together, she leaves Jack and Jack marries Daisy the next day. When Daisy decides that she wants into the Vaudeville act, she has Jack dump both Jerry and his baseball contract. But Jack soon finds that - no act - means no money - means no Daisy. Trouble ensues, but all goes right at the end.

Among its numbers are "Harlem Madness" with Nina Mae McKinney, and "Ten Sweet Mamas", a jaw-drooping number set in a baseball shower room with Van, Shenck & Benny Rubin.

"Christ, Bette Davis?!?!"

[Unknown User]

re: re: re: Broadway and Baseball#4

Posted: 10/14/03 at 11:48pm

THEY LEARNED ABOUT WOMEN, huh? Hmm.

In the showers of a baseball locker room. Double Hmm.

Ya Gotta Have Heart.

Go YANKEES!

[newyorkuniq]

re: re: re: Broadway and Baseball#5

Posted: 10/14/03 at 11:48pm

There is that great baseball scene in Ragtime:)

[Songsstresss]

re: re: re: re: Broadway and Baseball#6

Posted: 10/15/03 at 12:47am

I LOVE Broadway. I LOVE baseball. I HATE THE YANKEES!!!! It's true.

[Mattio98]

re: re: re: re: Broadway and Baseball#7

Posted: 10/15/03 at 12:50am

Go Yankees!!!!

Damn Yankees
Take Me Out
Hank Williams: Lost Highway

Thats all I can come up with.

[theatreguy]

re: re: re: re: re: Broadway and Baseball#8

Posted: 10/15/03 at 1:13am

How about THE FIRST?

[emmamia]

re: re: re: re: re: re: Broadway and Baseball#9

Posted: 10/15/03 at 1:14am

go cubbies!! even thou they bit the big one tonite

~*~ Little Boys Who Play With Fire Get Their Fingers Burned ~*~ Tanya (Mamma Mia)

[cmleidi]

re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Broadway and Baseball#10

Posted: 10/15/03 at 1:44am

I know nothing about baseball, but I am obsessed with TAKE ME OUT (and especially Daniel Sunjata)so does that count??

[SueleenGay]

re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Broadway and Baseball#11

Posted: 10/15/03 at 2:19am

cubs CUBS CUBS CUBS!! Do you know what this means for us?

PEACE.

[Mr Roxy]

re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Broadway and Baseball#12

Posted: 10/15/03 at 6:07am

I'd hate to be that kid this morning. He is going to need an armed guard or maybe he needs to move out of Chicago altogether

Poster Emeritus

[magruder]

re: Broadway and Baseball#13

Posted: 10/15/03 at 6:55am

Scott Bakula played Joe DiMaggio in the ill-fated Marilyn: A Musical Fable. And there are the baseball game numbers in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown ("T.E.A.M") and the Falsettoland section of Falsettos ("The Baseball Game"/"Sitting Watching Jason Play Baseball") respectively.

"Gif me the cobra jool!"

[lass]

re: re: Broadway and Baseball#14

Posted: 10/15/03 at 7:27am

Mr. Roxy, you might be right.

[Hank]

re: re: re: Broadway and Baseball#15

Posted: 10/15/03 at 9:42am

In Thoroughly Modern Millie, Jimmy used to sell peanuts at Yankee games.
Also, with all this talk about the curse of the Bambino, I would love to see a revival of No No Nanette.
Go Yanks!

[DoubleDown11]

Broadway and Baseball#16

Posted: 10/15/03 at 9:45am

Love Broadway!
Love NY!
Despise(I don't think there is a strong enough word) the Yankees!
Hate Jorge Posada!!!
Love the Red Sox!!!!!

[emmamia]

re: Broadway and Baseball#17

Posted: 10/15/03 at 10:07am

hey Sueleen are you from chi town??

~*~ Little Boys Who Play With Fire Get Their Fingers Burned ~*~ Tanya (Mamma Mia)

[Maggie]

re: re: Broadway and Baseball#18

Posted: 10/15/03 at 10:49am

Go Red Sox! Go Cubs!! Go anybody except the Yankees! Updated On: 10/15/03 at 10:49 AM

[CharityHope924]

re: re: re: Broadway and Baseball#19

Posted: 10/15/03 at 10:57am

There's that revue about baseball, "Diamonds." I've never seen it, but I've heard one great song from it, "What You'd Call a Dream."

Go Yankees!!!!!!!!!

Then from out of the blue, and without any guide, you know what your decision is, which is not to decide... I chose and my world was shaken, so what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. Just keep moving on... --Sondheim

[DoubleDown11]

Broadway and Baseball#20

Posted: 10/15/03 at 11:13am

I'm with you Maggie!!!

[TxTwoStep]

re: Broadway and Baseball#21

Posted: 10/15/03 at 3:26pm

there is also a musical (not-B'way) by Ossie Davis, about the Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars (same source material as the film). i think it's called BINGO.

And reason stands that someone has tried to musicalize FIELD OF DREAMS.

There's also that Little League coach comedy playing at the John Houseman right now.

Will: They don't give out awards for helping people be gay... unless you count the Tonys. "I guarantee that we'll have tough times. I guarantee that at some point one or both of us will want to get out. But I also guarantee that if I don't ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for the rest of my life..."

[BroadwayBaby3]

re: re: Broadway and Baseball#22

Posted: 10/15/03 at 7:15pm

Go CUBS!!!!! Talk about making history if they win tonight. *crosses fingers* Oh, and I have tickets for tonight's game. Going to turn off the laptop now and head into Wrigley. I just saw the thread and had to respond really fast. GO CUBS!!!!

[Menken Fan]

re: Broadway and Baseball#23

Posted: 10/18/03 at 9:58am

Still mourning for the Cubs here in Chicago...

Enjoyed this thread of baseball musicals and songs. Most of these shows and songs are now up on my personal radio website. Although, some of the songs are very remotely baseball-related.

If the World Series has you in a baseball mood, but you can't quite part from showtunes, check it out.

(I get nothing personally from the site, so this isn't really a plug. Just thought I'd share)

Sho-Toonz

[DofB5]

re: re: Broadway and Baseball#24

Posted: 10/18/03 at 12:22pm

Well theres one good thing I can say about baseball--at least you can UNDERSTAND it. 3 strikes your out, loaded bases, etc.

Football--now that is something I will NEVER understand. And my limited knowledge of it was rocked last year when the Bucs won!

The only things I knew about the game was: It's played in the fall/winter, the ball is called a pigskin and the Bucs always lose! Now I don't know what to think!

D