Video: 'Candide (original Broadway cast)'
(Saturday, December 1, 1956, 8:00 p.m. EST) — The Leonard Bernstein musical Candide, based on the story by Voltaire, opened tonight on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre — directed by Tyrone Guthrie and conducted by Samuel Krachmalnick. Continue reading ‘Candide’ musical opens on Broadway 60 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Dec 1 1956)
Video: 'Bells Are Ringing (Original Broadway Cast)' (16 videos)
(Thursday, November 29, 1956, 7:30 p.m. EST) — Bells Are Ringing, a musical that revolves around Ella (Judy Holliday), who works at an answering service, and the characters that she meets there, opened tonight on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre, directed by Jerome Robbins and choreographed by Robbins and Bob Fosse.
Video: '"Wilkommen" - Cabaret (Original Broadway Production, 1966)'
(Sunday, November 20, 1966, 7:00 p.m. EST) — The Broadway musical play Cabaret, set in pre-Nazi Germany, opened today at the Broadhurst Theatre with Jill Haworth as Sally Bowles and Joel Grey as the Master of Ceremonies. Continue reading ‘Cabaret’ musical opens on Broadway 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Nov 20 1966)
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)
