| re: 'Bathtubs Over Broadway' deserves to be showered with more praise |
| Last Edit: WaymanWong 03:19 pm EST 02/02/22 |
| Posted by: WaymanWong 03:15 pm EST 02/02/22 |
| In reply to: re: 'Bathtubs Over Broadway' deserves to be showered with more praise - showtunetrivia 01:05 pm EST 02/02/22 |
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I'm tempted to buy the book, but it looks like it's out of print. Someone's selling a copy at Amazon.com for $446!
By the way, do any companies or corporations still do industrial musicals? Anyone here been in one? What was it like?
My friend Tom Andersen just emailed to tell me he once did one for a computer company - in Hawaii: ''Great job. Great production values.''
Tom also knew Michael Brown, who produced and wrote industrial musicals. Wikipedia says Brown's show for DuPont, ''The Wonderful World of Chemistry,'' was done at the 1964 New York World's Fair. It was staged 48 times a day by two simultaneous casts in adjacent theaters.
Broadway buffs might know that Brown wrote ''Lizzie Borden'' for ''Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1952'' with the catchy refrain: ''You can't chop your poppa up in Massachusetts.'' Tom says Brown wanted to revive ''New Faces'' in the 1990s, so Tom took part in a backers audition in Florida. |
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Michael Brown's 'Lizzie Borden' from 'New Faces of 1952' |
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