“The Broadway
Musicals Yearbook” will be heard on Artsound FM 92.7 at 5pm on Sunday 12
December and repeated at 11pm on Monday 13 December. The show is produced and narrated by Len
Power, Canberra theatre critic, music critic and radio presenter.
This week – the musicals of 1953
1953 was a year of great variety on Broadway. Cole Porter’s ‘Can-Can’ made Gwen Verdon a star and Rosalind Russell gave a legendary performance in Leonard Bernstein’s ‘Wonderful Town’. Rodgers and Hammerstein gave audiences ‘Me and Juliet’, a show set in the world of theatre performers and the magical music of Borodin was used to great effect in the Arabian Nights musical, ‘Kismet’, by composers Wright and Forrest.
Songs in this program include ‘I Love Paris’ (‘Can-Can’), Wrong Note Rag’ (Wonderful Town’), ‘Marriage-type Love’ (‘Me And Juliet’) and ‘Stranger In Paradise’ (Kismet’).
Performers include Rosalind Russell, Alfred Drake, Joan Diener, Debbie Gravitte, Lilo, Doretta Morrow and Richard Kiley.
Listen Now: https://artsound.fm/shows/the-broadway-musicals-yearbook/
