1946 “Annie Get Your Gun”, “Show Boat”, “Call Me Mister”,
1947 “Brigadoon”, “Street Scene,” “A Streetcar Named Desire”.
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1948 “South Pacific”, “Kiss Me Kate.” 1949 “South Pacific”, Death of a Salesman”. 1950 “Guy and Dolls”, “Peter Pan”, Brigadoon’, “Carousel” London, “Call Me Madam”,
1951 “The King and I”, “The Mikado”, “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”, “Paint Your Wagon”. 1952 “Pal Joey”, “Pirates of Penzance”, “Wish You Were Here”. 1953 “Kismet”, “Danny Kaye-Revue”, “Jose Greco-Revue. 1954 “Golden Apple”, “Pajama Game”, By the Beautiful Sea”, 1955 “Plan and Fancy”, “ Silk Stockings”, “Kismet”, London, “Damn Yankees”, “Cat on a Hot Tin roof”. 1956 “My Fair Lady”, “Irma La Douce”, Paris, “Li’l Abner”, “Bells Are Ringing” “Candide”, Eugene O’Neill’s, “Long Days Journey Into Night”. 1957 “The Music Man”, Jamaica”, “West Side Story”. 1958 “The Flower Drum Song”, “Say Darling”, “Plume de Ma Tante, La” Revue. 1959 “Once Upon a Mattress”, “Gypsy”, “ Saratoga”, The Sound of Music”, “Destry Rides Again”, The Nervous Set”.
1960 “ Flower Drum Song” London, “The Fantasticks” off Broadway, “Camelot”, “Unsinkable Molly Brown”, “Bye, Bye Birdie”. 1961 “The Gay Life”, “How To succeed in Business Without Really Trying”, “Stop The World – I Want To Get Off”, London, “Carnival!”, “Milk and Honey”, Evening with Yves Montand”, “Night of the Iguana’. 1962 “I Can Get it for You Wholesale”, “No Strings”, This Was Burlesque’, off Broadway-revue”, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum’. 1963 “Oliver!’ “ Danny Kaye”, revue. “She Loves Me”, “110 in The Shade”, “The Girl Who Came to Dinner”. 1964 “Hello Dolly! “, “What Makes Sammy Run? “, “Funny Girl”, “I had a Ball”. 1965 “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever”, “Half a Sixpence”, Charley Girl”, London, “Man of LaMancha”. 1966 “It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane…It’s superman”, “Sweet Charity’, “ Cabaret”, “I Do! I Do!”, “Mame”. 1967 “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown”, off Broadway, “How Now, Dow Jones”, “Hair”, off Broadway, “Thoroughly Modern Millie.” 1968 “The Happy Time”, “People Is The Thing That The world Is Fullest Of”-off Broadway. 1969 “Oh Calcutta”, off-Broadway –Revue, “Promises, Promises”, London.
1970 “Last sweet days of Isaac”, “The Me Nobody Knows,” “Purlie”, “Applause,” “Rothschilds”, 1971 “Meeow”, “Godspell”, “Jesus Christ Superstar”, “ “Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death”, “Two Gentlemen of Verona”. 1972 “Grease”, “Man of La Mancha”, “The sunshine Train”. 1973 “A Little Night Music”, “The Rocky Horror Show”, London. “National Lampoo’s Lemmings, Revue. 1974 “Liza Minnelli”, concert, “Lorelei”, “Sammy Davis on Broadway” concert, “Over Her”, “ Fashion” 1975 “The Wiz”, “Shenandoah”, “ A Chorus Line”, “Rocky Horror Picture Show”, Me & Bessie”. 1976 “Shirley Maclaine”, revue, “ Debbie Reynolds Show” revue, “You’re Arms Too Short to Box with God”. 1977 “Side By side By Sondheim” revue, “Beatlemania”, concert. 1978 “I’m Getting My Act Together”, “Timbuktu”, “Evita”, London, “On The 20th Century” “Best Little Whorehouse In Texas”. 1979 “They’re Playing Our song”, “I Remember Mama”, “Tommy”, London, “Sugar Babies”, revue, “Sweeney Todd”.
1980 “Grease” closes its run of 3,388 performances. “A Day in A Night in The Ukraine”, “Really Rosie”, off Broadway, “42nd Street”
From the book BOOMERSHow We Changed The World by Richard A. Jordan A great book that would be a great gift for the baby boomer in your life. A real cool book.
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Tracie Luck star of Opera Margaret Garner at the Lincoln Center New York
Art Carney
Old school folks also had great stage shows like..
Art Carney
In “LOVERS”
“Praised by all the critics!” -N.Y. TIMES” The NATIONAL THEATRE Washington, D.C. June 16 – June 28, 1969 Evenings at 7:30 matinees Wed. & Sat. at 2:00 Mon. thru Sat. Evenings Orch. $7.50; 1st Balc. 7.50, 6.50, 5.50; Upper Balc. $3.00 Wed. and Sat. Matinees Orch. $5.50, 4.50, 3.00; Upper Balc.$1.95
ART CARNEY IN LOVERS
A rare theatrical experience is in store for audiences everywhere with the appearance of Art Carney, the only entertainer in the world who ever climbed out of a sewer to stardom, as the star of “LOVERS.” Now making his first National Tour, he is giving theatergoers a long over-due opportunity to see the irrepressible “Ed Norton” IN PERSON. When everyone’s (and Jackie Gleason’s) favorite sewer worker let loose on the Broadway stage this past summer his “COMEDY TIMING AND INVENTIVENESS THAT HAS MADE HIM A HOUSEHOLD WORD” (CBS-radio), he drew forth such critical accolades as “BRILLIANT AND IMMORTAL” from syndicated columnist Earl Wilson and “THE PUREST STAGE ARTISTRY” from fellow-columnist Jack) O’Brian who regarded his performance as Andy as “THE FINEST ROLE OF HIS AMAZINGLY BROAD RANGE OF PERFORMING TALENTS.” In Brian Friel’s two-pronged probe of the human in life, Carney has been called “SUPERB” by Life Magazine, the New Yorker, the New York Daily News, ABC-TV,
Newhouse publications, etc., all summed up by the United Press with “HE HAS NEVER BEEN BETTER.” When Art Carney, the winner of five consecutive Emmys, deserts the TV tube to return to the intimacy of good theatre as he did in “The Rope Dancers,” “Take Her, She’s Mine” and Neil Simon’s “The Odd Couple,”” it is indeed, as Judith Crist said on the Today Show “A PERFECT EVENING OF THEATRE.”
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HELLO DOLLY! PEARL BAILEY 1968 Tony Awards
Irving Berlin worked as a singing waiter.
Irving Berlin went on to compose more than one thousand songs, including ?Alexander/s Rag Time Band,” “Easter Parade,” “Cheek to Cheek,” “There’s No Business Like Show Business”, and “Anything You Can Do.” He wrote the Broadway musicals Annie Get Your Gun and This Is the Army, received the Congressional Gold Medal for his song “God Bless America” and won an Academy Award for his song “White Christmas.”
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Broadway Musical Chronology The 1950s Compiled by John Kenrick
(Copyright 1996-2003)
Times Square in the 1950sTimes Square as seen in a 1950s postcard.
All dates are for Broadway openings unless otherwise noted. KEY
Show Title (Genre/City), Opening Date, Theatre, Number of Performances 1950
Happy As Harry, 1/6/1950, Coronet, 3 Alive and Kicking (Revue), 1/17/1950, Winter Garden, 46 Dance Me a Song (Revue), 1/20/1950, Royale, 35 Arms and the Girl, 2/2/1950, 46th St., 134 Consul, The (Opera), 3/15/1950, Ethel Barrymore, 269 Great To Be Alive!, 3/23/1950, Winter Garden, 52 Katherine Dunham (Revue), 4/19/1950, Broadway, 37 Peter Pan (Jean Arthur), 4/24/1950, Imperial, 321 Tickets, Please! (Revue), 4/27/1950, Coronet, 245 Brigadoon, 5/2/1950, New York City Center, 24 Liar, 5/18/1950, Broadhurst, 12 Carousel (London), 6/7/1950, Drury Lane, 566 Michael Todd’s Peep Show (Revue), 6/28/1950, Winter Garden, 278 Ace of Clubs (London), 7/7/1950, Cambridge, 211 Telephone, The/The Medium (R), 7/19/1950, Edison Hotel Arena, 110 Pardon Our French (Revue), 10/5/1950, Broadway, 100 Call Me Madam, 10/12/1950, Imperial, 644 Barrier, 11/2/1950, Broadhurst, 4 Guys and Dolls, 11/24/1950, 46th St., 1194* Let’s Make an Opera, 12/13/1950, Golden, 5 Bless You All (Revue), 12/14/1950, Mark Hellinger, 84 Colorado (Paris), 12/16/1950, Gaite-Lyric, 11 months Pour Don Carlos (Paris), 12/17/1950, Chatelet, 420 Out of This World, 12/21/1950, New Century, 157
1951
Where’s Charley? (Return), 1/29/1951, Broadway, 48 Mikado, The (R), 1/29/1951, St. James, 8 Trial by Jury/HMS Pinafore, 2/5/1951, St. James, 8 Jotham Valley, 2/6/1951, 48th Street, 31 Gondoliers (R), 2/12/1951, St. James, 4 Iolanthe (R), 2/15/1951, St. James, 4 Gay’s the Word (London), 2/16/1951, Saville, 502 Razzle Dazzle (Revue), 2/19/1951, Hotel Edison Arena, 8 Cox and Box/The Pirates of Penzance (R), 2/19/1951, St James, 8 King and I, The, 3/29/1951, St. James, 1246* Make a Wish, 4/18/1951, Winter Garden, 102 Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A, 4/19/1951, Alvin, 267 Flahooley, 5/14/1951, Broadhurst, 40 Oklahoma! (R), 5/29/1951, Broadway, 72 Courtin’ Time, 6/14/1951, National, 37 Seventeen, 6/21/1951, Broadhurst, 180 Two on the Aisle (Revue), 7/19/1951, Mark Hellinger, 276 Bagels and Yox (Revue), 9/12/1951, Holiday, 204 Borscht Capades (Revue), 9/17/1951, Royale, 90 Jose Greco (Revue), 10/1/1951, Shubert, 65 Music in the Air (R), 10/8/1951, Ziegfeld, 56 Zip Goes a Million (London), 10/20/1951, Palace, 544 And So To Bed (London), 10/12/1951, New Theatre, 323 Top Banana, 11/1/1951, Winter Garden, 350 Paint Your Wagon, 11/12/1951, Shubert, 289 Le Chanteur De Mexico (Paris), 12/15/1951, Chatelet, 905 976
Home Sweet Homer, 1/4/1976, Palace, 1 Pacific Overtures, 1/11/1976, Winter Garden, 193 Rockabye Hamlet, 2/17/1976, Minskoff, 7 perfs + 21 pvws Bubbling Brown Sugar (Revue), 3/2/1976, ANTA, 766 Very Good Eddie (London-R), 3/23/1976, Piccadilly, 411 My Fair Lady (R), 3/25/1976, St. James, 384 Shirley MacLaine (Revue), 4/19/1976, Palace, 20 Rex, 4/25/1976, Lunt-Fontanne, 48 perfs + 14 pvws So Long 174th Street, 4/27/1976, Harkness, 16 perfs + 6 pvws Threepenny Opera (R), 5/1/1976, Vivian Beaumont, 307 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, 5/4/1976, Mark Hellinger Theater, 7 perfs + 13 pvws Something’s Afoot, 5/27/1976, Lyceum, 74 Godspell (Moved to Broadway), 6/22/1976, Broadhurst, 527 Pal Joey (R), 6/27/1976, Circle in the Square, 73 perfs + 33 pvws Shirley MacLaine (Revue), 7/9/1976, Palace, 20 Guys & Dolls (R), 7/21/1976, Broadway, 241 Let My People Come (Revue-Moved to Bway), 7/22/1976, Morosco, 122 A Chorus Line (London), 7/22/1976, Drury Lane, 903 Debbie Reynolds Show (Revue), 9/16/1976, Minskoff, 13 Going Up (R), 9/19/1976, John Golden, 49 Oh Calcutta (Revue-R), 9/24/1976, Edison, 5959 Porgy & Bess (R), 9/25/1976, Uris, 129 Lovesong (Revue), 10/5/1976, Top of the Gate, 23 The Robber Bridegroom (Moved to Broadway), 10/9/1976, Biltmore, 157 The Club, 10/14/1976, Circle in the Square Downtown, 667 Two by Five (Revue), 10/18/1976, Village Gate Downstairs, 57 Music Is, 12/20/1976, St. James, 8 perfs + 14 pvws You’re Arms Too Short to Box With God, 12/22/1976, Lyceum, 434 Fiddler on the Roof (R), 12/28/1976, Winter Garden, 168
1977
Nightclub Cantata (Revue), 1/9/1977, Top of the Gate, 145 Ipi-Tombi, 1/12/1977, Harkness, 39 perfs + 17 pvws A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine (London), 1/15/1979, New End, 168 Elvis: The Legend Lives (Revue), 1/31/1977, Palace, 101 Party With Betty Comden & Adolph Green, A (Revue-R), 2/10/1977, Morosco, 96 Starting Here, Starting Now (Revue), 3/7/1977, Barbarann, 120 Happy End, 3/8/1977, Chelsea Theatre Center, 56 She Loves Me (R), 3/29/1977, Town Hall, 24 I Love My Wife, 4/17/1977, Ethel Barrymore, 872 Side By Side By Sondheim (Revue), 4/18/1977, Music Box, 390 Knickerbocker Holiday (R), 4/19/1977, Town Hall, 16 Annie*, 4/21/1977, Alvin, 2377 The King & I (R), 5/2/1977, Uris, 807 Happy End (Moved to Broadway), 5/7/1977, Martin Beck, 75 Toller Cranston’s Ice Show (Revue), 5/19/1977, Palace, 62 Beatlemania (Concert), 6/1/1977, Winter Garden, 1011 (See NOTE Below) Unsung Cole (Revue), 6/23/1977, Circle Rep, 78 Man of La Mancha (R), 9/15/1977, Palace, 127 Comedy With Music (Revue-R), 10/3/1977, Imperial, 67 Hair (R), 10/5/1977, Biltmore, 43 perfs + 79 pvws I Love My Wife (London), 10/6/1977, Prince of Wales, 410 Best Little Whorehouse In Texas (Showcase), 10/20/77, Actors Studio, 12 The Act, 10/29/1977, Majestic, 239 Jesus Christ Superstar (R), 11/23/1977, Longacre, 96
1977 NOTE: In a vain attempt to avoid facing the critics, Beatlemania never officially opened. The critics eventually snuck in anyway. Despite poor reviews, this tribute to the Beatles ran for several years.
IN REVIEW: NYC OPERA – Margret Garner
Margret Garner Richard Danielpour
PRINCIPAL CAST/PRODUCTION TEAM: Margret Garner: Tracie Luck Cilla: Lisa Daltirus Robert Garner: Gregg Baker is Robert Garner Edward Gaines: Thomas Barrett Production Director: Tazewell Thompson
NEW YORK, NEW YORK (September 28, 2007)- The New York City Opera opened its 2007-2008 Season with nearly as much press (but admittedly less fanfare) as did their neighbor across Lincoln Center Plaza with an American Opera, Margret Garner. In the saga of the slave who kills her children rather than see them taken back into slavery, one again the smaller house proved that it has a deep understanding of personal drama and emotion, something often lost at the Met.
Tracie Luck star of Opera Margaret Garner at the Lincoln Center New York 
