holding onto heartache - louis tomlinson

john steinbeck, east of eden / charles bukowski, come on in! / heather havrilesky, ask polly: help, i’m the loneliest person in the world! / adolph green and betty comden, the party’s over / samuel beckett, waiting for godot / alanis morissette, sorry to myself

1962. Sondheim, Bernstein, Adolph Green, Roddy McDowall.

Taken January 31, 1960: Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and Henry Fonda rehearsing for the CBS TV special, “The Fabulous Fifties.” the special was a review of the previous decade through musical and comedy skits, commentary and news clips.

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"My Favorite Year" (1982) - Richard Benjamin

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Stephen Sondheim’s Follies  

The legendary 1985 concert performance of Stephen Sondheim's acclaimed musical Follies was presented by the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. 

The thrilling - and possibly historic - New York Philharmonic concert version of Follies presented at Avery Fisher Hall was a reunion of sorts, albeit one with a happier ending. To cast this all too transitory event, the producer Thomas Z. Shepard brought together veterans of Sondheim musicals stretching from the 1964 Anyone Can Whistle to Sunday in the Park With George - among them, Lee Remick, Elaine Stritch, George Hearn, Liz Callaway and Mandy Patinkin. They were joined by other stellar musical-comedy hands who exemplify the Broadway heyday whose passing Follies mourns - Barbara Cook, Carol Burnett, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. Once this company paraded before the orchestra to the glittering melody of the opening song, ''Beautiful Girls,'' it was impossible to separate the fictional show-biz reunion dramatized in Follies from the real one unfolding on stage. The audience, more than willing to let the distinction slide, simply erupted into pandemonium.

The cheering rarely subsided thereafter, and not without reason. Mr. Shepard assembled this evening to record the complete Follies score, which was mangled on its original Broadway cast album. Although there were still a few elisions (mainly of dance music) in the concert, this version was as complete, gorgeously sung and sumptuously played as Mr. Sondheim or his fans could wish. But there were other reasons for the thunderous response as well. Even in concert, Follies proved much more than merely a star-studded recording session. The performance made the case that this Broadway musical can take its place among our musical theater's very finest achievements. (Frank Rich, The New York Times)

Wie hier versprochen: Candide, Leonard Bernsteins Bildungsprogramm und Feierstunde des gesunden Menschenverstands. Diese Leibnitzsche Lehre, dies sei die beste aller möglichen Welten ist doch kompletter Unfug, meint Voltaire und wird deshalb von den cleversten denkbaren Leuten, die diesen im Gegenzug lieber selber treiben, aufs schönste vermusicalt. Wir beherzigen das, und lassen unseren Garten wachsen. Man findet allerdings danach alle anderen Dirigenten blaß und ausdruckslos.

Note that there are a lot of Peter Pan musicals, this is the 1954 one with Mary Martin originating the role of Peter

1978: Sondheim, Jule Styne, Phyllis Newman, Jerry Herman, Adolph Green.

Publicity photos of Comden and Green (Betty Comden and Adolph Green) who had a 60-year partnership during which they wrote such shows as “On the Town” (1944) and musical films such as Singin' In The Rain (1952) and The Band Wagon (1953).

lily in love, károly makk 1985

'Singin' in the Rain' – Gene Kelly's gotta dance on HBO Max

‘Singin’ in the Rain’ – Gene Kelly’s gotta dance on HBO Max

Singin’ in the Rain (1952) has been hailed as the greatest American musical ever made. It’s certainly one of the most fun, a knockabout reimagining of the transition from silent to sound movies: lousy history but a blast of singing, dancing, romancing energy and color. Gene Kelly is Don Lockwood, the vaudeville schlub turned movie stuntman and finally matinee idol. His introduction is brilliant,…

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