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| The original production of THE MUSIC MAN opened 65 years ago tonight | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 05:52 pm EST 12/19/22 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 05:50 pm EST 12/19/22 | |
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| What a thrill that must have been to experience the emergence of Robert Preston, formerly best known as a film villain character actor, starting a new career as a premier musical star and to see and hear the glorious Barbara Cook, along with Meredith Willson's wonderful score and book that had gone through many revisions to get it just right! | |
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| re: The original production of THE MUSIC MAN opened 65 years ago tonight | |
| Posted by: lanky 07:59 am EST 12/21/22 | |
| In reply to: The original production of THE MUSIC MAN opened 65 years ago tonight - PlayWiz 05:50 pm EST 12/19/22 | |
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| ....and to hear that rousing score played by a full orchestra.... | |
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| re: The original production of THE MUSIC MAN opened 65 years ago tonight | |
| Last Edit: Delvino 09:51 pm EST 12/20/22 | |
| Posted by: Delvino 09:50 pm EST 12/20/22 | |
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| Only last night on TCM we saw it featured prominently in The Apartment (1960). The exterior of the Majestic used evocatively. (I’d forgotten because that key scene - Chuck stood up by Fran - takes place outside Madison Square Garden in Promises, Promises.) | |
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| re: The original production of THE MUSIC MAN opened 65 years ago tonight | |
| Posted by: Fasslercom 01:37 pm EST 12/20/22 | |
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| Some history courtesy of "Theatre Yesterday and Today" (written by me). https://ronfassler.stck.me/post/51517/IF-YOU-DON-T-MIND-MY-SAYING-SO |
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| re: The original production of THE MUSIC MAN opened 65 years ago tonight | |
| Posted by: BHandshy 04:21 pm EST 12/20/22 | |
| In reply to: re: The original production of THE MUSIC MAN opened 65 years ago tonight - Fasslercom 01:37 pm EST 12/20/22 | |
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| Thank you! That's a wonderfully clear color photo of Preston and Cook. Women (Cook here) looked so much more real when they didn't wear wigs. | |
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| re: The original production of THE MUSIC MAN opened 65 years ago tonight | |
| Posted by: huskyital (huskyital@yahoo.com) 11:15 pm EST 12/19/22 | |
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| I believe Robert Preston appeared on Broadway in the show for almost 2 years unthinkable today. At least for his efforts he was cast in the movie and we can still enjoy his great performance. Too bad Carol Channing didn't have such luck. | |
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| re: The original production of THE MUSIC MAN opened 65 years ago tonight | |
| Last Edit: Chromolume 08:31 pm EST 12/19/22 | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 08:30 pm EST 12/19/22 | |
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| And with NO tap dancing!!!!! (Hard to believe, I know...) :-) | |
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| re: The original production of THE MUSIC MAN opened 65 years ago tonight | |
| Posted by: NewtonUK 10:57 am EST 12/20/22 | |
| In reply to: re: The original production of THE MUSIC MAN opened 65 years ago tonight - Chromolume 08:30 pm EST 12/19/22 | |
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| And no drums accompanying Ropck Island. Nad Harold was a baritone, and Marian was a lyric soprano. Which is what Willson wrote. On purpose. For reasons, | |
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| re: The original production of THE MUSIC MAN opened 65 years ago tonight | |
| Posted by: OldTheaterGuy 02:41 pm EST 12/22/22 | |
| In reply to: re: The original production of THE MUSIC MAN opened 65 years ago tonight - NewtonUK 10:57 am EST 12/20/22 | |
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| Of course, both Eddie Albert and Bert Parks, who played Harold during the original run, were tenors. | |
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| Another Eddie Albert singing link.... | |
| Posted by: bwaynut 01:30 pm EST 12/23/22 | |
| In reply to: re: The original production of THE MUSIC MAN opened 65 years ago tonight - OldTheaterGuy 02:41 pm EST 12/22/22 | |
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| This one is from "Reuben, Reuben," the Marc Blitzstein musical/opera from 1955 that closed out-of-town in Boston. This recording was made from an acetate demo of the show, with Blitzstein himself at the piano. Also in the show were Kaye Ballard, Evelyn Lear, Sondra Lee, and Anita Darian. Mr. Albert's voice was quite lovely. | |
| Link | Eddie Albert, singing "The Rose Song" from "Reuben, Reuben" |
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| re: The original production of THE MUSIC MAN opened 65 years ago tonight | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 06:28 pm EST 12/22/22 | |
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| I would say Eddie Albert was a baritone. Possibly a high baritone, but he so often goes into a sort of half head voice when the music isn't even particularly high that I am guessing he didn't have an especially strong upper register even for a baritone. Perhaps a baritone who had just figured out how to use his head voice effectively. I am linking a recording of him in which he sounds quite baritonal. Anyway, certainly not difficult to imagine the guy we hear at the link handling Hill's tessitura and sounding like a baritone or even a bass-baritone. |
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| Link | Eddie Albert sings Bob Dylan |
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| Another Eddie Albert singing link | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 06:40 pm EST 12/22/22 | |
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| "I Believe" linked, in which he sounds very baritonal or even bass-baritone. From 1958, so not too long before he played Harold Hill, which he later played again in stock. | |
| Link | Eddie Albert sings "I Believe" |
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| re: Another Eddie Albert singing link | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 12:11 am EST 12/23/22 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 12:06 am EST 12/23/22 | |
| In reply to: Another Eddie Albert singing link - AlanScott 06:40 pm EST 12/22/22 | |
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| Eddie Albert to me sounded like a lyric baritone, and he had a lovely voice. He's also featured as the lead in "Miss Liberty" and was one of the original Antipholuses in the original "Boys From Syracuse" introducing, among other songs, "This Can't Be Love". So Rodgers & Hart and Irving Berlin all cast him in leading roles, which included ballads, and of course, he had the acting ability to do tons of character roles over the years of a very long career. Below is linked him singing, quite beautifully, with Allyn Ann McLerie, from "MIss Liberty". | |
| Link | "Just One Way to Say I Love You" - Eddie Albert from MISS LIBERTY |
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| re: Another Eddie Albert singing link | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 01:30 am EST 12/23/22 | |
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| That was one of songs I listened to before posting. I listened to a bunch of songs to refresh my memory. A very talented man, a brilliant actor. |
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| re: Another Eddie Albert singing link | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 10:51 am EST 12/23/22 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 10:49 am EST 12/23/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Another Eddie Albert singing link - AlanScott 01:30 am EST 12/23/22 | |
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| Did you ever see him in "Captain Newman, M.D."? Really good film, but Albert is playing a character so different than I had ever seen him that i didn't even recognize him for a few minutes. For those of you who haven't seen it, Gregory Peck plays the title character, a doctor in a psychiatric ward during WWII basically treating patients to get them ready to go back to battle. A very funny Tony Curtis is the comic relief as his helper, Angie Dickinson head nurse (and love interest) and the three main patients dealt with are Eddie Albert, a very young Robert Duvall, and quite brilliantly, in an Academy Award nominated performance, Bobby Darin. It's kind of like a psychiatric M*A*S*H with some soon-to-be-famous faces among the other patients as well. Albert was also an honored war hero and was supposed to have been an all-around great guy. He lived until age 99. |
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| THANK YOU!!!! | |
| Posted by: Genealley 08:55 pm EST 12/19/22 | |
| In reply to: re: The original production of THE MUSIC MAN opened 65 years ago tonight - Chromolume 08:30 pm EST 12/19/22 | |
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| Spoiled it for me, this time. | |
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