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The Boy from Oz The Boy from Oz  Starring Hugh Jackman, music by Peter Allen. For voice, piano and guitar chords. Format: piano/vocal/chords songbook. With vocal melody, piano accompaniment, lyrics, chord names, guitar chord diagrams and color photos. Broadway. 80 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Hal Leonard. Average customer rating: Cole Porter: A Musical Anthology Cole Porter: A Musical Anthology  Composed by Cole Porter. For voice and piano. Format: piano/vocal/chords songbook. With vocal melody, piano accompaniment, lyrics and chord names. Standards and Broadway. 256 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Hal Leonard. Mama, I'm A Big Girl Now (6-PACK) Mama, I'm A Big Girl Now (6-PACK)  (from Hairspray). By Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman. Arranged by Roger Emerson. (SSA). Broadway Choral. Size 6.75x10.5 inches. 12 pages. Published by Hal Leonard. 6-PACK includes six original copies of this piece. Broadway Ladies (Background tracks only) Broadway Ladies (Background tracks only)  For Broadway Standards. Sing songs from this Broadway hit with original arrangements and keys! Includes lyrics printed in CD insert and a CD+G graphics-enabled compact disc featuring complete as well as accompaniment-only versions of each Broadway show number. Published by Music Minus One. Nunsense II The Second Coming Dan Goggin 0 0 Comedy Show/Broadway Piano Voice Piano/Vocal Warner Bros. Sophisticated Ladies Broadway Selections Sophisticated Ladies Broadway Selections  Performed by Duke Ellington. By Duke Ellington. Edited by Carol Cuellar. Songbook (vocal selections). Published by Warner Brothers. Smash Broadway Collection, 100 Great Songs Of The Century Smash Broadway Collection, 100 Great Songs Of The Century  For voice and piano. Format: piano/vocal/chords songbook. With vocal melody, piano accompaniment, lyrics and chord names. Broadway, Pop Vocal and Vocal Standards. 436 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Warner Brothers. E-Z Play Today #242 - Les Miserables E-Z Play Today #242 - Les Miserables  Lyrics by Alain Boublil, Herbert Kretzmer, music by Claude-Michel Schonberg. For voice and keyboard. Format: keyboard/vocal/chords songbook. With lyrics, chord names, big note notation and registration guide. Broadway. Series: Hal Leonard E-Z Play Today. 48 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Hal Leonard.

Updated News and Content on Musicals

Towanda native Billy Shaw returns for American Cancer Society benefit (The Daily Review)
TOWANDA - Billy Shaw, Towanda native and Broadway-hopeful, will perform two musical shows in Bradford County this week with three of his friends - all graduates from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in Manhattan, N.Y. "An Evening of Broadway" will benefit the American Cancer Society.

Larry Keith and Alice Playton Added to Bay Street 'Pippin' Cast (Playbill via Yahoo! News)
Larry Keith will be Charles, the king, and Alice Playten is Bertha in the Bay Street Theatre's summer staging of Stephen Schwartz's musical of one Medieval prince and his comical search for identity, Pippin.

'Spamalot' gets best musical at Tonys (Kansas City Star)
Tim Curry performs a number from the Broadway musical "Monty Python's Spamalot." KATHY WILLENS, Associated Press. NEW YORK - "Spamalot" didn't get a lot.

PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT:
Don't look now, but a brand-new Broadway season has taken off-before the one that just ended has been accorded its proper period and paragraph. After the Night and the Music falls into that nebulous netherland between the Tony cutoff date and the Tony Awards, bowing formally June 1 at the Biltmore-a full two weeks after its "opening night" party. Even the play's author, Elaine May-a woman of exquisite timing-was a bit thrown by the prematurity of it all. "This is like a mid preview opening-isn't that kinda weird?" the dismayed Miss May said on May 19, scanning the crowd tumbling into the Copacabana's main room. "I've no idea how that works.

The Ed Sullivan Show
dancers, and even circus acts were regularly featured. The show was originally entitled The Talk of the Town and on its debut, comedians Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis performed along with Broadway composers Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. In 1955 the name was changed to The Ed Sullivan Show. On September 9, 1956, rock star Elvis Presley made his first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show even though Sullivan had previously vowed never to allow the performer on his show. At the time Presley was filming Love Me Tender so Sullivan's producer Marlo Lewis flew to Los Angeles, California to supervise the Hollywood side of the show taping. Sullivan, however, was not able to host his show in New York City because he was recovering from a near fatal automobile

Grammy Awards of 1986
(conductor), Yo-Yo Ma & the London Symphony Orchestra for Elgar: Cello Concerto, Op. 85/Walton: Concerto for Cello & Orchestra Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (without orchestra) Vladimir Ashkenazy for Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit; Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte; Valses Nobles et Sentimentales Best Chamber Music Performance Emanuel Ax & Yo-Yo Ma for Brahms: Cello and Piano Sonatas in E Minor and F Best Classical Contemporary Composition Andrew Lloyd Webber (composer), Sarah Brightman & Placido Domingo for Lloyd Webber: Requiem Best Classical Album Robert Woods (producer), Robert Shaw (conductor), John Aler & the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Berlioz: Requiem Best New Classical Artist Chicago Pro Musica Comedy Best Comedy Recording Whoopi Goldberg for Whoopi Goldberg - Original Broadway Show Recording Composing and arranging Best Instrumental Composition

The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)
Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. It was written in 1986 by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber specifically for the voice of his then wife, singer Sarah Brightman. It was produced by Cameron Mackintosh and opened at Her Majesty's Theatre in September of 1986, where it still runs today. The show was taken to Broadway, where it is still running today, and many other cities. A film version is to be released in December of 2004. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Act One 2 Act Two 3 See also Act One Overture Think of Me Angel of Music Little Lotte The Mirror The Phantom of the Opera Music of the Night I Remember.../Stranger Than You Dreamt It Magical Lasso Notes.../Prima Donna Poor Fool, He Makes Me Laugh Why Have You Brought

Follies
Follies Follies is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman. It is set in a crumbling old Broadway theatre during a reunion for all the past members of the “Weismann’s Follies,” a musical review which played in that theatre between the World Wars. The musical

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A Touch of the Poet (Broadway Theatre Archive)
from: Kultur (30 July, 2002)