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Celebrate the Birthday of Nine with Maury Yeston!

The surprise hit of the 1982 season, Nine was a brilliant (and brilliantly executed) take-off on the unique universe of Italian film director Federico Fellini. Propelled by a surprisingly (by Broadway standards) imaginative and florid score by Maury Yeston, in Tommy Tune’s eloquently suggestive black and white direction, the show opened to rave reviews at […]

Goodtime Charley – Original Broadway Cast Recording 1975

Joel Grey and GOODTIME CHARLEY ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST RECORDING 1975 Photos from MWB Vault| Throwback Thursday

French history took a strange turn when Sidney Michaels (book), Larry Grossman (music) and Hal Hackady (lyrics) wrote their Broadway musical,Goodtime Charley , about the once and future King Charles VII, and that damsel in distress, Joan of Arc. If the subject seemed preposterous, its treatment was made even more so when Joel Grey and Ann […]