Video: 'The Ed Sullivan Show - Vol. 1 (Hosted by Carol Burnett)' (July 15, 1956, at 59:09)
(Sunday, July 15, 1956, 8:00-9:00 p.m. EDT) — Julie Andrews performed “I Could Have Danced All Night” on tonight’s live edition of the CBS-TV variety show The Ed Sullivan Show from CBS Studio No. 50 in New York City.
(Saturday, June 16, 1956) — “Standing on the Corner” by The Four Lads peaked at #3 on today’s Billboard Most Played by Jockeys chart for three weeks.
Video: 'Angela Lansbury in MAME (Broadway, 1966)'
(Tuesday, May 24, 1966, 7:15 p.m. EDT) — Mame, with the book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman and based on the 1955 novel Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis and a 1956 Broadway play, opened on Broadway tonight at Winter Garden Theatre in New York City, starring Angela Lansbury and Beatrice Arthur.
Continue reading ‘Mame’ opens on Broadway 50 years ago this hour (May 24 1966)
Video: 'Doin' What Comes Naturally - Annie Get Your Gun (Original Broadway Cast 1946)'
(Thursday, May 16, 1946, 8:30 p.m. EDT) — The Irving Berlin musical Annie Get Your Gun, starring Ethel Merman as Annie Oakley, opened tonight on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre.
Video: 'My Fair Lady (Original Broadway Cast Recording)'
(Thursday, March 15, 1956, 7:30 p.m. EST) — The Frederick Loewe-Alan Jay musical play My Fair Lady, based on Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, opened on Broadway tonight at the Mark Hellinger Theatre in New York City, starring Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews.
Video: 'RICHARD KILEY "The Impossible Dream" on The Ed Sullivan Show'
(Sunday, February 20, 1966, 8:00-9:00 p.m. EST) — Richard Kiley performed “Impossible Dream” from the Broadway Musical Man of La Mancha on tonight’s live edition of the CBS-TV variety show The Ed Sullivan Show from CBS Studio No. 50 in New York City. Continue reading Richard Kiley performs ‘Impossible Dream’ on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’ 50 years ago this hour (Feb 20 1966)
Video: 'On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, Original Broadway Cast Highlights'
(Sunday, October 17, 1965, evening EDT) — On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, with music by Burton Lane and a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and based loosely on the 1926 play Berkeley Square, opened on Broadway tonight at the Mark Hellinger Theatre in New York City. Continue reading ‘On a Clear Day You Can See Forever’ opens on Broadway 50 years ago tonight (Oct 17 1965)
Video: 'Porgy and Bess, 1935 silent home movie'
(Thursday, October 10, 1935, 8:10 p.m. EST) — The George Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess, featuring an entire cast of classically trained African-American singers, opened tonight at the Alvin Theatre on Broadway in New York.
The leading roles were played by Todd Duncan and Anne Brown.
(Wednesday, October 5, 1955, 8:00 p.m. EDT) — The Diary of Anne Frank, a stage adaptation of the book The Diary of a Young Girl by Holocaust victim Anne Frank (1929-1945), opened tonight at the Cort Theatre on Broadway in New York.
The cast was led by Joseph Schildkraut as Otto Frank and Susan Strasberg as Anne Frank.
