“The Broadway Musicals Yearbook” will be heard on Artsound FM 92.7 at 5pm on Sunday 11 September and repeated at 11pm on Monday 18 September. The show is produced and narrated by Len Power, Canberra theatre critic, music critic and radio presenter.
This week – the musicals of 1963
In 1963, the imported English musical, ‘Oliver!’, based on the Charles Dickens novel, ‘Oliver Twist’ opened on Broadway. There was also ‘110 In The Shade’, a musical adaptation of the play, ‘The Rainmaker’, and Noel Coward’s final musical, ‘The Girl Who Came To Supper’, based on Terrence Rattigan’s play, ‘The Sleeping Prince’. In the musical, ‘Tovarich’, Vivien Leigh, of ‘Gone With The Wind’ fame, charmed audiences and stopped the show dancing a hot Charleston number.
You’ll hear songs from all of these shows and others including: ‘Consider Yourself’ (from ‘Oliver!’), ‘How Do You Do, Middle Age’ (‘The Girl Who Came to Supper’), ‘All For You’ (‘Tovarich’), ‘Melisande’ (‘110 In The Shade’) and ‘Will He Like Me?’ (‘She Loves Me’).
Performers include: Vivien Leigh, Robert Horton, Barbara Cook, Jose Ferrer, Georgia Brown, Jack Cassidy and Florence Henderson.
Listen Now: https://artsound.fm/shows/the-broadway-musicals-yearbook/
