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Only Twenty-Eight Years from Broadway By Peter Filichia
…months later in 1991 Coleman gave us the Tony- and Grammy-winning The Will Rogers Follies. No matter how rickety Robinson Crusoe III would have been from a lack of vitamins…
MAY SCHMIGADOON RUN FOR 100 YEARS! By Peter Filichia
…first show (ON THE TOWN) to their last (THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES), wrote a marvelous parody of those show songs that celebrate food, glorious food ( a la “Toot Sweets”…
CAPSULE COMMENTS By Peter Filichia
…others, including his three Tony-winning compositions for ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, CITY OF ANGELS and THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES. Before eight-track tape had had its day, DARLING OF THE DAY,…
THIS IS THE LIFE By Peter Filichia
…TWENTIETH CENTURY, CITY OF ANGELS and THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES. All but the first-named dealt with the entertainment industry in one form or another. One could say that THE LIFE…
Cy Coleman
…acclaim, winning his second Tony Award® for Best Score. The very next year The Will Rogers Follies (1991), again with lyrics by Comden and Green, brought another Tony®, giving Coleman…