59 stories by "Doug Reside"
A guest post by Ben West of UnsungMusicalsCo.
Between March 1946 and December 1948, six highly successful musical revues opened on Broadway, playing a combined total of 2,653 performances an…
A guest post by Ben West of UnsungMusicalsCo.
When I was approached about recording Barefoot Boy With Cheek, I jumped at the opportunity. Based on the best-selling novel by Tony Award nomine…
A guest post by Ben West.
Strange as it may seem given its frank narrative and its traditional sound, The Fig Leaves Are Falling is not a conventional musical. This colorful, vivacious and d…
I'll be posting a April's Musical of the Month later this week, but before I do, I wanted to share the results of a little experiment.
I recently discovered a new music streaming subscriptio…
Last August, musical theater historian Laura Frankos detailed the history of the Princess Musicals in her introduction to Oh, Boy! This month's musical, Very Good Eddie, was the second of th…
A guest post by UnsungMusicalsCo director, Ben West
Currently in its fifth year, UnsungMusicalsCo. (UMC) is a not-for-profit production company that I founded with the aim of researching, r…
A guest post by Levi Branson
By 1920 Jerome Kern had achieved success as a noteworthy American composer with a uniquely American career. His melodies graced many entertainment platforms, b…
A guest post by Maya Cantu
"America at the close of the Great War was a Cinderella magically clothed in the most stunning dress at the ball... immense gains with no visible price tag s…
I dreamed a dream in time gone by that someday I would be sitting in a cinema watching the film version of Les Misérables. In 1993 I had recently convinced my mother to take me to a …
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts is pleased to announce the release of the Dorothy Loudon Digital Exhibition.
Dorothy Loudon (1925-2003) was a Tony Award-winning Br…
A guest post by Brian D. Valencia
Evangeline, or The Bell of Acadia rounds out the Musical of the Month blog's consideration of the four most popular American-devised musicals of the l…
A guest post by Tracy C. Davis, Barber Professor of Performing Arts — Northwestern University.
Extracted from the preface to Dorothy in Tracy C. Davis, ed., The Broadview Anthology of …
A guest post by Professor William Everett
Part of the innate appeal of the Princess Theatre musicals comes from the songs, which famously emerge out of the plots. Musical numbers in these…
A guest post and edition by Andrew Lamb.
The works of Gilbert and Sullivan dominated nineteenth-century British comic opera from the start. Yet in neither London nor New York was a work of…
A guest post By Laura Frankos
Oh, Boy!: Kern, Bolton, Wodehouse and the Princess Theatre Musicals
The Genesis of the Series
In 1913, the Shuberts added another theatre to their empire at 10…
A guest post by Professor William Everett.
His statue stands in Times Square, the only one located at the "Crossroads of the World." This legendary showman did it all—actor,…
If you've been using computers for a while, you've probably purchased quite a few devices for storing your work. My family's first computer (a Timex Sinclair 1000 purchased for about $40 …
A guest post by Elizabeth Titrington Craft
"I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy / A Yankee Doodle do or die / A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam / Born on the Fourth of July." If these lines…
A quiz for musical theater fans: Name a musical, set at the close of the 19th century, in which two young men deceive a crotchety old man in order to escape his oversight and seek love and …
A Guest Blog By Project Co-Director, Professor William Everett
In 1910 impresario Oscar Hammerstein sold his interests in his Manhattan Opera Company to his chief rival, the Metropolitan Ope…
A guest blog by project co-director, Professor William Everett
The Pink Lady (1911) is one of those delightful gems from a century ago with a title that suggests something eminently enjoyabl…
A Guest Post by Project Co-Director, Professor William Everett
Noël Coward's Bitter Sweet is in many ways an ode to the world of romantic operetta. In 1929, when the show first appeared…
A guest post & edition by Brian D. Valencia
When Shuffle Along opened at the 63rd Street Music Hall on May 23, 1921, it marked the return of all-black musical shows to Broadway after n…
A Guest Blog on Victor Herbert's Birthday by Professor William EverettVictor Herbert’s Babes in Toyland is typical of turn-of-the-century musical theater in that it encompasses various…
A Guest Blog by Larry Moore
In the NYPL Rare Books Division, among the Townsend Walsh correspondence, there is an undated 1902 letter from director Julian Mitchell to his publicist/busine…
