Stan Freberg's comedy album THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - which almost became a Broadway musical produced by David Merrick - has a whole Columbus sequence, including the song "It's a Round, Round World."
There's also a "Christopher Columbus" song by Leon (Chu) Berry and Broadway lyricist Andy Razaf, recorded by Fats Waller. But I don't think it's from a show, and IIRC it wasn't used in Ain't Misbehavin'.
And in 1957, Jean-Louis Barrault's production of the Paul Claudel-Darius Milhaud giant musical drama CHRISTOPHE COLOMB played at the Winter Garden, in rep with five other productions by the Barrault-Renaud company. The conductor was a young unknown named Pierre Boulez. Barrault and his wife, Madeleine Renaud, played Columbus and Isabella.
The other shows in the repertoire, btw, included VOLPONE, THE MISANTHROPE, Giraudoux's INTERMEZZO (aka THE ENCHANTED), and two double bills, one of them a pairing of Armand Salacrou's NIGHTS OF WRATH and a Feydeau one-act farce. |
