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Week 7. Revues (Wikipedia)
- A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment
- combines music, dance and sketches
- 19th century roots
- Golden Years 1916 to 1932
- Example: Ziegfeld Follies
- Assassins by Sondheim has the Form of a Revue
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Getting Away with Murder
- A Play - NOT a Musical
- Stephen Sondheim and George Furth
- A Whodunit, Comedy, Thriller
- First performed as
- The Doctor is Out (1995), San Diego
- 1996 Broadway
- Background Info
- Excerpt
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Saturday Night
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The Frogs
- Yale, 1974
- Basis: Aristophanes "The Frogs"
- Broadway, 2004
- Book: Burt Shevelove, Nathan Lane
- Background Info
- Excerpt
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Bossa Nova
Antonio Carlos Jobim
(Tom), 1927-1994
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Stephen Sondheim
b. 1930, Parody
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[Source: Jobim from thejazzlabels.com]
The Girl from Ipanema (1962)
Frank Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
(1915-1998), (1927-1994)
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The Duet from the late 1960s
The Classic: Astrud Gilberto & Stan Getz (1964)
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The Real Girl from Ipanema
Heloísa (Helo) Pinheiro (b. 1945)
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[Source: www.formidablemag.com]
The Boy From...
Mary Rodgers
1931-2014, music
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Stephen Sondheim
b. 1930, lyrics
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[Source: Mary from www.newmusicbox.org]
Mary Rodgers
More Photos
[Source: Mary from www.wnyc.org]
The Boy From...
M. Rodgers
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S. Sondheim
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From a 1966 Off-Broadway Revue "The Mad Show"
Lyrics by Esteban Rio Nido AKA Sondheim
[Source: Mary from www.newmusicbox.org]
The Boy From ...
Linda Lavin (b. 1937)
sings
"The Boy From ..."
[Source: xfinity.comcast.net]
Putting it Together (1992)
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