It’s hard to imagine the most pointless Beatles songs at first. The group was one of the most influential bands in music. However, despite how good they were, some doozies fell through the cracks and into their catalog. Here are 10 of the most pointless Beatles songs.
The Beatles | J. Wilds/Getty Images 10. ‘Til There Was You’
The Beatles should have never covered “Till There Was You.” The song is a show tune written by Meredith Willson. It appeared in his 1957 stage production, The Music Man, and its 1962 movie musical adaptation. However, for some reason, the Fab Four thought it was a good idea to cover. Their version is pointless because they already had great love songs. They didn’t need to cover a cheesy tune from a musical.
9. ‘Run For Your Life’
“Run For Your Life” is one of the most pointless Beatles songs, and John Lennon admitted it.
The Beatles | J. Wilds/Getty Images 10. ‘Til There Was You’
The Beatles should have never covered “Till There Was You.” The song is a show tune written by Meredith Willson. It appeared in his 1957 stage production, The Music Man, and its 1962 movie musical adaptation. However, for some reason, the Fab Four thought it was a good idea to cover. Their version is pointless because they already had great love songs. They didn’t need to cover a cheesy tune from a musical.
9. ‘Run For Your Life’
“Run For Your Life” is one of the most pointless Beatles songs, and John Lennon admitted it.
- 4/2/2023
- by Hannah Wigandt
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Apple TV +’s “Schmigadoon” is the musical equivalent to a warm, happy smile. The six-part limited series that premiered on the streaming service last July is a smart, clever and fun parody of the classic musicals of the 1940s and 1950s. It was a golden era of the Broadway musical dominated by such influential, eminent composers as Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Alan Jay Lerner Lerner & Frederick Loewe, Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II, Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim, Meredith Willson, and Richard Adler & Jerry Ross.
Cecily Strong and Keegan-Michael Key star as two doctors who have grown tired in their relationship and decide to get on a camping retreat. Before you can say “Brigadoon” they get lost in the woods only to cross a bridge into a Hallmark Card of a town where every day is a musical. But checking out of Schmigadoon is no easy task. They can’t leave...
Cecily Strong and Keegan-Michael Key star as two doctors who have grown tired in their relationship and decide to get on a camping retreat. Before you can say “Brigadoon” they get lost in the woods only to cross a bridge into a Hallmark Card of a town where every day is a musical. But checking out of Schmigadoon is no easy task. They can’t leave...
- 6/27/2022
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
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In wake of Hugh Jackman testing positive for Covid-19 for the second time, standby actor Max Clayton will perform in The Music Man on Broadway.
Clayton will perform the role of Professor Harold Hill alongside Sutton Foster, in all performances of Meredith Willson’s musical comedy from June 14-21.
“Once again, standbys and understudies save the day and, in this case, it’s Max Clayton to the rescue,” said producer Kate Horton in a statement. “We’re excited to see him perform alongside the wonderful Sutton Foster and we wish Hugh a speedy recovery.”
In his own statement on Instagram, Jackman said: “I’ve frustratingly tested positive for Covid. Again. My standby, the amazingly talented @maxmclayton will step in for me. What’s most annoying is I don’t get to see him perform! I’ve said it before, and will say it...
In wake of Hugh Jackman testing positive for Covid-19 for the second time, standby actor Max Clayton will perform in The Music Man on Broadway.
Clayton will perform the role of Professor Harold Hill alongside Sutton Foster, in all performances of Meredith Willson’s musical comedy from June 14-21.
“Once again, standbys and understudies save the day and, in this case, it’s Max Clayton to the rescue,” said producer Kate Horton in a statement. “We’re excited to see him perform alongside the wonderful Sutton Foster and we wish Hugh a speedy recovery.”
In his own statement on Instagram, Jackman said: “I’ve frustratingly tested positive for Covid. Again. My standby, the amazingly talented @maxmclayton will step in for me. What’s most annoying is I don’t get to see him perform! I’ve said it before, and will say it...
- 6/13/2022
- by Trilby Beresford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
(For nearly 30 years, Susan Haskins-Doloff was co-host and executive producer of the classic PBS TV show “Theater Talk,” featuring fascinating and witty interviews with the leading stars and other creators of Broadway’s greatest shows.)
Anyone who has ever seen “The Music Man” knows act 1 ends with the citizens of River City, Iowa anticipating and then celebrating in song the arrival of the Wells Fargo wagon, which is bringing to town musical instruments for the kids that Professor Harold Hill has conned their parents into buying. After the townspeople have sung two verses expressing their excitement, Winthrop Paroo, the younger brother of the show’s heroine, Marian Paroo, steps forward and sings a third verse of the song. The audience knows that Winthrop has a lisp which has made him hesitant to talk, but here he is so joyful, that he is sufficiently unselfconscious to express himself in song. As...
Anyone who has ever seen “The Music Man” knows act 1 ends with the citizens of River City, Iowa anticipating and then celebrating in song the arrival of the Wells Fargo wagon, which is bringing to town musical instruments for the kids that Professor Harold Hill has conned their parents into buying. After the townspeople have sung two verses expressing their excitement, Winthrop Paroo, the younger brother of the show’s heroine, Marian Paroo, steps forward and sings a third verse of the song. The audience knows that Winthrop has a lisp which has made him hesitant to talk, but here he is so joyful, that he is sufficiently unselfconscious to express himself in song. As...
- 5/17/2022
- by Susan Haskins-Doloff
- Gold Derby
Hugh Jackman is living his dream on Broadway right now. Which is to say the veritable Tony and Drama Desk Award winner is finally getting to play Professor Harold Hill in Meredith Willson’s The Music Man. It’s a part he’s dreamed of since he was 14. Although for a certain breed of fan, there is only one role they dream to see Jackman in again: X-Men’s the Wolverine.
And the star obliged them recently when he donned Logan’s fabled adamantium claws on a Broadway stage. So to speak.
In a moment that went viral over the weekend, especially after Jackman shared it, a fan at the curtain call of The Music Man in the Winter Garden Theatre had good enough seats to catch Jackman’s eye when he brought along a foam set of Wolverine’s claws. Ever an actor who knows how to work a...
And the star obliged them recently when he donned Logan’s fabled adamantium claws on a Broadway stage. So to speak.
In a moment that went viral over the weekend, especially after Jackman shared it, a fan at the curtain call of The Music Man in the Winter Garden Theatre had good enough seats to catch Jackman’s eye when he brought along a foam set of Wolverine’s claws. Ever an actor who knows how to work a...
- 4/4/2022
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
As someone who has never seen or heard anything related to "The Music Man" other than its parodic influences, I am surprised that a word like "defanged" is my descriptor for the 2022 Broadway revival of the beloved 1957 "The Music Man" musical, with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson and story by Willson and Franklin Lacey. As much as the star power of Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster (of "Anything Goes" fame) are announced regally on the Winter Garden Theatre billboard, with the type of gigantic marquee that invokes passerby questions of "How much money went into that?", this Jerry Zaks-directed...
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- 2/23/2022
- by Caroline Cao
- Slash Film
It has been eight years since Hugh Jackman notoriously hopped his way into Radio City Music Hall to host the 68th Tony Awards and even longer since he won a Tony himself. But at long last, Jackman has returned to Broadway in a revival of the Americana classic “The Music Man” starring Professor Harold Hill. In this mounting, which opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on Feb. 10, Sutton Foster joins him as Marian Paroo.
This fourth production of the Meredith Willson musical on Broadway is directed by four-time Tony Award winner Jerry Zaks, who also helmed the lavish and adored remounting of “Hello, Dolly!” a few years ago. Zaks has assembled an impressive ensemble for his production, including Tony winners Shuler Hensley, Jayne Houdyshell, Jefferson Mays, and Marie Mullen, plus Tony-winning creatives Warren Carlyle, Santo Loquasto, and Brian MacDevitt.
See ‘Mj The Musical’ reviews: Myles Frost ‘mesmerizing’ as Michael Jackson,...
This fourth production of the Meredith Willson musical on Broadway is directed by four-time Tony Award winner Jerry Zaks, who also helmed the lavish and adored remounting of “Hello, Dolly!” a few years ago. Zaks has assembled an impressive ensemble for his production, including Tony winners Shuler Hensley, Jayne Houdyshell, Jefferson Mays, and Marie Mullen, plus Tony-winning creatives Warren Carlyle, Santo Loquasto, and Brian MacDevitt.
See ‘Mj The Musical’ reviews: Myles Frost ‘mesmerizing’ as Michael Jackson,...
- 2/14/2022
- by David Buchanan
- Gold Derby
Last night, the hugely anticipated revival of Meredith Willson's The Music Man, starring two-time Tony Award, Grammy Award, and Emmy Award-winning star Hugh Jackman as Professor Harold Hill and two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster as Marian Paroo opened triumphantly on Broadway. BroadwayWorld was there for the big night and we're taking you to the curtain calland after party below...
- 2/11/2022
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
When people who dislike musicals talk about the musicals they dislike, there’s a decent chance they’re talking about musicals like The Music Man – whether they’ve ever actually ever seen The Music Man or not. Meredith Willson’s nostalgic slice of Americana was already proudly old-fashioned when it debuted in 1957, with “Seventy-Six Trombones” leading Broadway down a cornpone path that shows like the moody Carousel or the finger-snapping West Side Story were trying so hard to avoid. Not even The Beatles could make Music Man‘s lilting “Till There Was You” sound cool.
Now, many decades later – and several years after directors Ivo van Hove and Daniel Fish reimagined West Side Story and Oklahoma! in thrilling ways unthinkable when those musicals were young – director Jerry Zaks, producers Barry Diller, David Geffen and Kate Horton and a well-rehearsed cast headed by Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster deliver a high-gloss...
Now, many decades later – and several years after directors Ivo van Hove and Daniel Fish reimagined West Side Story and Oklahoma! in thrilling ways unthinkable when those musicals were young – director Jerry Zaks, producers Barry Diller, David Geffen and Kate Horton and a well-rehearsed cast headed by Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster deliver a high-gloss...
- 2/11/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
In a break with Broadway custom of recent decades, producers of The Music Man starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster are not inviting critics to pre-opening night previews.
Instead, critics are being invited to the revival’s Feb. 10 opening night at the Winter Garden Theatre, with reviews embargoed until thereafter. (Deadline received the invitation by email today.)
Typically, critics are invited to at least several pre-opening night previews, with reviews embargoed until opening night. Although the trope of aisle-sitters rushing to file reviews after the opening night curtain falls conjures images of All About Eve-era Broadway, the practice is thought to have generally continued at least into the 1970s, with then-New York Times critic Richard Eder occasionally, perhaps apocryphally, credited with having encouraged the switch to critics’ previews to allow reviewers more time to consider and craft their reactions.
Asked by Deadline for the reasoning behind the decision, Music...
Instead, critics are being invited to the revival’s Feb. 10 opening night at the Winter Garden Theatre, with reviews embargoed until thereafter. (Deadline received the invitation by email today.)
Typically, critics are invited to at least several pre-opening night previews, with reviews embargoed until opening night. Although the trope of aisle-sitters rushing to file reviews after the opening night curtain falls conjures images of All About Eve-era Broadway, the practice is thought to have generally continued at least into the 1970s, with then-New York Times critic Richard Eder occasionally, perhaps apocryphally, credited with having encouraged the switch to critics’ previews to allow reviewers more time to consider and craft their reactions.
Asked by Deadline for the reasoning behind the decision, Music...
- 1/29/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Australian actor Hugh Jackman, who was set to star as Professor Harold Hill in the Meredith Willson musical, ‘The Music Man’, at the Winter Garden Theater, Broadway, New York City, wont be able to perform till January 6 because he has tested positive for coronavirus. The actor, according to ‘Variety’, took to his Twitter account […]...
- 12/29/2021
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
The Music Man has set its Broadway return for February 2022, with tickets going on sale Tuesday. Kate Horton has been named executive producer, effective immediately, and will oversee all aspects of the production, alongside producers Barry Diller and David Geffen Horton.
Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster star as con man Professor Harold Hill and librarian Marian Paroo, respectively, when the large-scale musical revival of Meredith Willson’s The Music Man begins performances on Feb. 10, 2022, at the Winter Garden Theatre.
The Music Man is among several productions — including To Kill A Mockingbird and The Book of Mormon — to have announced new leadership following Scott Rudin’s ...
Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster star as con man Professor Harold Hill and librarian Marian Paroo, respectively, when the large-scale musical revival of Meredith Willson’s The Music Man begins performances on Feb. 10, 2022, at the Winter Garden Theatre.
The Music Man is among several productions — including To Kill A Mockingbird and The Book of Mormon — to have announced new leadership following Scott Rudin’s ...
- 6/22/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Music Man has set its Broadway return for February 2022, with tickets going on sale Tuesday. Kate Horton has been named executive producer, effective immediately, and will oversee all aspects of the production, alongside producers Barry Diller and David Geffen.
Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster star as con man Professor Harold Hill and librarian Marian Paroo, respectively, when the large-scale musical revival of Meredith Willson’s The Music Man begins performances on Feb. 10, 2022, at the Winter Garden Theatre.
The Music Man is among several productions — including To Kill A Mockingbird and The Book of Mormon — to have announced new leadership following Scott Rudin’s decision ...
Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster star as con man Professor Harold Hill and librarian Marian Paroo, respectively, when the large-scale musical revival of Meredith Willson’s The Music Man begins performances on Feb. 10, 2022, at the Winter Garden Theatre.
The Music Man is among several productions — including To Kill A Mockingbird and The Book of Mormon — to have announced new leadership following Scott Rudin’s decision ...
- 6/22/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
'The Music Man' starring Hugh Jackman has set a new opening night for 2022.
With Broadway remaining closed at least until next summer, the highly anticipated musical revival of Meredith Willson’s 'The Music Man' has revealed a new opening schedule due to the ongoing pandemic.
The opening night for the musical has been scheduled for February 10, 2022, with previews set to begin on December 20, 2021, reports Deadline.
Reacting to the news, Hugh Jackman took to Twitter where he shared a photo of himself standing in front of closed Broadway theatre.
"When Broadway is ready for us ... we will be ready for you!" he captioned the snap.
When Broadway is ready for us ... we will be ready for you! @sfosternyc #TheMusicMan #Broadway pic.twitter.com/rSzfG6rAFt
— Hugh Jackman (@RealHughJackman) October 9, 2020
The decision to push back the production comes after Broadway League announced on Friday morning that theaters will...
With Broadway remaining closed at least until next summer, the highly anticipated musical revival of Meredith Willson’s 'The Music Man' has revealed a new opening schedule due to the ongoing pandemic.
The opening night for the musical has been scheduled for February 10, 2022, with previews set to begin on December 20, 2021, reports Deadline.
Reacting to the news, Hugh Jackman took to Twitter where he shared a photo of himself standing in front of closed Broadway theatre.
"When Broadway is ready for us ... we will be ready for you!" he captioned the snap.
When Broadway is ready for us ... we will be ready for you! @sfosternyc #TheMusicMan #Broadway pic.twitter.com/rSzfG6rAFt
— Hugh Jackman (@RealHughJackman) October 9, 2020
The decision to push back the production comes after Broadway League announced on Friday morning that theaters will...
- 10/10/2020
- by Omkar Padte
- GlamSham
Exclusive: With Broadway dark at least until next summer, The Music Man starring Hugh Jackman has set a new opening night for 2022.
The highly anticipated musical revival, costarring Sutton Foster, now will begin previews at Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre on Monday, December 20, 2021, with Opening Night scheduled for Thursday, February 10, 2022.
The new dates fall eight months past the most recent targets of Spring 2021. The announcement marks the first confirmed rescheduling following today’s decision by the Broadway League to extend Broadway’s coronavirus pandemic shutdown from the previous January 2021 to May 30 2021.
The Music Man announcement was made by producers Scott Rudin, Barry Diller and David Geffen. The production, directed by four-time Tony Award winner Jerry Zaks, with choreography by Tony Award winner Warren Carlyle, will also star Tony winners Jayne Houdyshell as Mrs. Shinn, Jefferson Mays as Mayor Shinn, Marie Mullen as Mrs. Paroo, and Shuler Hensley as Marcellus Washburn.
The highly anticipated musical revival, costarring Sutton Foster, now will begin previews at Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre on Monday, December 20, 2021, with Opening Night scheduled for Thursday, February 10, 2022.
The new dates fall eight months past the most recent targets of Spring 2021. The announcement marks the first confirmed rescheduling following today’s decision by the Broadway League to extend Broadway’s coronavirus pandemic shutdown from the previous January 2021 to May 30 2021.
The Music Man announcement was made by producers Scott Rudin, Barry Diller and David Geffen. The production, directed by four-time Tony Award winner Jerry Zaks, with choreography by Tony Award winner Warren Carlyle, will also star Tony winners Jayne Houdyshell as Mrs. Shinn, Jefferson Mays as Mayor Shinn, Marie Mullen as Mrs. Paroo, and Shuler Hensley as Marcellus Washburn.
- 10/9/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
There's not quite 'trouble' in River City, but, it might take a bit longer than expected for the train to reach Iowa. BroadwayWorld has just learned thatthe start of preview performances and the opening night of the highly-anticipated revival of Meredith Willson's The Music Man have been rescheduled. Starring two-time Tony Award, Grammy Award, and Emmy Award-winning star Hugh Jackman as Professor Harold Hill, and also starring two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster as Marian Paroo, preview performances of The Music Man are now set to begin on Wednesday, April 7, 2021, with Opening Night scheduled for Thursday, May 20 at the Winter Garden Theatre 1634 Broadway. As a result of New York State's ban on large gatherings, rehearsals which were to have begun June 29, will now commence on Monday, February 8.
- 6/24/2020
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Jagged Little Pill, Moulin Rouge!, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Grand Horizons, Mary-Louise Parker and Jonathan Groff are among this year’s Outer Critics Circle Awards recipients, a collection of Broadway and Off Broadway recipients that make up the organization’s first-ever slate of multiple honorees.
With the Tony Awards remaining a mere possibility this year, the 70th Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards took an unusual approach to an unusual, pandemic-shortened theater season: In lieu of selecting traditional nominees with one winner from each category, the Occ named five honorees in each of its technical categories and up to six honorees in acting categories. Four artists received the annual John Gassner Award this season, commemorating works by new American playwrights.
Recalibrated to celebrate “widespread excellence in New York theater this season,” the Occ Awards – chosen by the official organization of writers on New York theatre for out-of-town newspapers and national...
With the Tony Awards remaining a mere possibility this year, the 70th Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards took an unusual approach to an unusual, pandemic-shortened theater season: In lieu of selecting traditional nominees with one winner from each category, the Occ named five honorees in each of its technical categories and up to six honorees in acting categories. Four artists received the annual John Gassner Award this season, commemorating works by new American playwrights.
Recalibrated to celebrate “widespread excellence in New York theater this season,” the Occ Awards – chosen by the official organization of writers on New York theatre for out-of-town newspapers and national...
- 5/11/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Meredith Willson's beloved classic, The Music Man starring two-time Tony Award, Grammy Award, and Emmy Award-winning star Hugh Jackman as Harold Hill and two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster as Marian Paroo, is coming to Broadway The production will reunite Jackman with choreographer Warren Carlyle, who worked closely withthe star for Hugh Jackman Back on Broadwayand his last Tony Awards hosting gig in 2014. Below, watch as the friends pick right back up where they left off in rehearsals...
- 9/16/2019
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Meredith Willson's beloved classic, The Music Man starring two-time Tony Award, Grammy Award, and Emmy Award-winning star Hugh Jackman as Harold Hill and two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster as Marian Paroo, is coming to Broadway The production, directed by four-time Tony Award winner Jerry Zaks, with choreography by Tony Award winner Warren Carlyle, begins performances on Wednesday, September 9, 2020 and officially opens on Thursday, October 15, 2020 at a Shubert Theatre to be announced.
- 9/12/2019
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Chicago – Professor Harold Hill has come back to River City, and that means trouble right here. Meredith Willson’s “The Music Man” is now in major revival at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago.
.. and its satiric view of small town life in Iowa still provides some fun illumination. Directed by Tony Award winning director Mary Zimmerman, the play was just extended to August 18th, 2019, at various times. For more information and tickets, click here.
Play Rating: 4.0/5.0
The straightforward adaptation of the story a con artist traveling salesman first saw the lights of Broadway in 1957, on its way to a four year run. The Goodman version doesn’t try to reinvent the the show (surprisingly) and the coy optimism and gentle humor evokes a different time in America. The ensemble cast, led by Geoff Packard as the Professor, handles the 2 hour and 15 minute show with a languid grace, and the open...
.. and its satiric view of small town life in Iowa still provides some fun illumination. Directed by Tony Award winning director Mary Zimmerman, the play was just extended to August 18th, 2019, at various times. For more information and tickets, click here.
Play Rating: 4.0/5.0
The straightforward adaptation of the story a con artist traveling salesman first saw the lights of Broadway in 1957, on its way to a four year run. The Goodman version doesn’t try to reinvent the the show (surprisingly) and the coy optimism and gentle humor evokes a different time in America. The ensemble cast, led by Geoff Packard as the Professor, handles the 2 hour and 15 minute show with a languid grace, and the open...
- 7/9/2019
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Hugh Jackman will return to Broadway in a 2020 revival of Meredith Willson’s 1957 classic musical The Music Man, producer Scott Rudin confirmed today.
Directed by Jerry Zaks, with choreography by Tony Award winner Warren Carlyle, the revival will begin performances on Wednesday, September 9, 2020, and open on Thursday, October 22, 2020, at a Shubert theatre to be announced.
Jackman tweeted an image this morning of a suitcase, a trombone and an ID tag with the name “Harold Hill.” The suitcase has a sticker reading “Opening Night October 22, 2020.”
See the tweet below.
Additional casting, including the lead female role of Marian, will be announced shortly.
In a statement, Jackman said, “The first musical I was ever part of was the phenomenal The Music Man. The year was 1983, and I was at Knox Grammar School in Sydney, Australia. I was one of the traveling salesmen, and I think I can actually...
Directed by Jerry Zaks, with choreography by Tony Award winner Warren Carlyle, the revival will begin performances on Wednesday, September 9, 2020, and open on Thursday, October 22, 2020, at a Shubert theatre to be announced.
Jackman tweeted an image this morning of a suitcase, a trombone and an ID tag with the name “Harold Hill.” The suitcase has a sticker reading “Opening Night October 22, 2020.”
See the tweet below.
Additional casting, including the lead female role of Marian, will be announced shortly.
In a statement, Jackman said, “The first musical I was ever part of was the phenomenal The Music Man. The year was 1983, and I was at Knox Grammar School in Sydney, Australia. I was one of the traveling salesmen, and I think I can actually...
- 3/13/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
BroadwayWorld has a first look at the The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' Broadway Center Stage production of Meredith Willson's The Music Man starring Tony Award nominee Norm Lewis Porgy and Bess as Harold Hill, Tony Award-winning actress Jessie Mueller Waitress, Carousel, Beautiful as Marian Paroo, and Broadway, film, and television star Rosie O'Donnell as Mrs. Paroo. The semi-staged concert production is directed by Marc Bruni Beautiful, Broadway Center Stage How to Succeed... with choreography by Chris Bailey Jerry Springer The Opera, The New Yorkers at Encores and music direction by James Moore Miss Saigon, the Kennedy Center's Follies and Ragtime.
- 2/14/2019
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Review Roundup: Critics Weigh In On Norm Lewis, Jessie Mueller, and Rosie O'Donnell in The Music Man
BroadwayWorld has a first look at the The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' Broadway Center Stage production of Meredith Willson's The Music Man starring Tony Award nominee Norm Lewis Porgy and Bess as Harold Hill, Tony Award-winning actress Jessie Mueller Waitress, Carousel, Beautiful as Marian Paroo, and Broadway, film, and television star Rosie O'Donnell as Mrs. Paroo. The semi-staged concert production is directed by Marc Bruni Beautiful, Broadway Center Stage How to Succeed... with choreography by Chris Bailey Jerry Springer The Opera, The New Yorkers at Encores and music direction by James Moore Miss Saigon, the Kennedy Center's Follies and Ragtime.
- 2/8/2019
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
BroadwayWorld has a first look at the The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' Broadway Center Stage production of Meredith Willson's The Music Man starring Tony Award nominee Norm Lewis Porgy and Bess as Harold Hill, Tony Award-winning actress Jessie Mueller Waitress, Carousel, Beautiful as Marian Paroo, and Broadway, film, and television star Rosie O'Donnell as Mrs. Paroo. The semi-staged concert production is directed by Marc Bruni Beautiful, Broadway Center Stage How to Succeed... with choreography by Chris Bailey Jerry Springer The Opera, The New Yorkers at Encores and music direction by James Moore Miss Saigon, the Kennedy Center's Follies and Ragtime.
- 2/7/2019
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will soon present the Broadway Center Stage production of Meredith Willson's The Music Man. It will star Norm Lewis Porgy and Bess as Harold Hill and Tony Award-winning actress Jessie Mueller Waitress, Carousel, Beautiful as Marian Paroo in the starry semi-staged concert production directed by Marc Bruni Beautiful, Broadway Center Stage How to Succeed... with choreography by Chris Bailey Jerry Springer The Opera, The New Yorkers at Encores and music direction by James Moore Miss Saigon, the Kennedy Center's Follies and Ragtime.
- 1/26/2019
- by TV - On the Road
- BroadwayWorld.com
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will soon present the Broadway Center Stage production of Meredith Willson's The Music Man. It will star Norm Lewis Porgy and Bess as Harold Hill and Tony Award-winning actress Jessie Mueller Waitress, Carousel, Beautiful as Marian Paroo in the starry semi-staged concert production directed by Marc Bruni Beautiful, Broadway Center Stage How to Succeed... with choreography by Chris Bailey Jerry Springer The Opera, The New Yorkers at Encores and music direction by James Moore Miss Saigon, the Kennedy Center's Follies and Ragtime.
- 1/25/2019
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will soon present the Broadway Center Stage production of Meredith Willson's The Music Man. It will star Norm Lewis Porgy and Bess as Harold Hill and Tony Award-winning actress Jessie Mueller Waitress, Carousel, Beautiful as Marian Paroo in the starry semi-staged concert production directed by Marc Bruni Beautiful, Broadway Center Stage How to Succeed... with choreography by Chris Bailey Jerry Springer The Opera, The New Yorkers at Encores and music direction by James Moore Miss Saigon, the Kennedy Center's Follies and Ragtime.
- 1/24/2019
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will soon present the Broadway Center Stage production of Meredith Willson's The Music Man. It will star Norm Lewis Porgy and Bess as Harold Hill and Tony Award-winning actress Jessie Mueller Waitress, Carousel, Beautiful as Marian Paroo in the starry semi-staged concert production directed by Marc Bruni Beautiful, Broadway Center Stage How to Succeed... with choreography by Chris Bailey Jerry Springer The Opera, The New Yorkers at Encores and music direction by James Moore Miss Saigon, the Kennedy Center's Follies and Ragtime.
- 1/24/2019
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced today that Broadway, film, and television star Rosie O'Donnell will play Mrs. Paroo in the Broadway Center Stage production of Meredith Willson's The Music Man. O'Donnell joins Tony Award nominee Norm Lewis Porgy and Bess as Harold Hill and Tony Awardwinning actress Jessie Mueller Waitress, Carousel, Beautiful as Marian Paroo in the starry semi-staged concert production directed by Marc Bruni Beautiful, Broadway Center Stage How to Succeed with choreography by Chris Bailey Jerry Springer The Opera, The New Yorkers at Encores and music direction by James Moore Miss Saigon, the Kennedy Center's Follies and Ragtime.
- 1/8/2019
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
BroadwayWorld has learned Tony Award-winning actress Jessie Mueller Waitress, Carousel will reunite with Beautiful director Marc Bruni Broadway Center Stage How to Succeed... for the Broadway Center Stage production of Meredith Willson's The Music Man at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Mueller stars as Marian Paroo opposite the previously announced Tony Award nominee Norm Lewis Porgy and Bess as Harold Hill. Also joining the creative team for the Kennedy Center's latest starry concert production is choreographer Chris Bailey Jerry Springer The Opera, The New Yorkers at Encores and music director James Moore Miss Saigon, the Kennedy Center's Follies and Ragtime.
- 12/10/2018
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Elvis Presley is among the seven “distinguished individuals” that will receive a Presidential Medal of Freedom from Donald Trump at a November 16th ceremony.
Yankees great Babe Ruth and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will also posthumously receive the prestigious award, “the Nation’s highest civilian honor, which may be awarded by the President to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors,” the Office of the Press...
Yankees great Babe Ruth and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will also posthumously receive the prestigious award, “the Nation’s highest civilian honor, which may be awarded by the President to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors,” the Office of the Press...
- 11/10/2018
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
For the Fourth of July, let’s get into the All-American spirit with good old-fashioned patriotic movies? Whether you’re an astronaut, a Congressman, a mathematician or a hockey player, you typify the kind of best Americans that the movies want to celebrate on Independence Day.
The theme of our photo gallery above is all about the American spirit, which can be a rah-rah film (like “Miracle” or “Top Gun”), fighting for the people back home or even going against the grain to fight for what’s right in society. Our gallery also includes “The Right Stuff,” “Field of Dreams,” “Forrest Gump,” “Hidden Figures” and more. James Cagney, Kevin Costner, Tom Cruise, Sally Field, Tom Hanks, Taraji P. Henson, James Stewart and Denzel Washington are some of the big names in starring roles.
Enjoy a hot dog and sit back to peruse (or even watch again) these 15 wonderful movies that...
The theme of our photo gallery above is all about the American spirit, which can be a rah-rah film (like “Miracle” or “Top Gun”), fighting for the people back home or even going against the grain to fight for what’s right in society. Our gallery also includes “The Right Stuff,” “Field of Dreams,” “Forrest Gump,” “Hidden Figures” and more. James Cagney, Kevin Costner, Tom Cruise, Sally Field, Tom Hanks, Taraji P. Henson, James Stewart and Denzel Washington are some of the big names in starring roles.
Enjoy a hot dog and sit back to peruse (or even watch again) these 15 wonderful movies that...
- 7/4/2018
- by Tom O'Brien and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Tony Award winner Jim Dale and Tony nominee and Drama Desk Award winner Robert Cuccioli headline in Here's Love To The Music Man A Celebration of Songwriter Meredith Willson, the opening event of The Ziegfeld Society's ninth Season, honoring the 60th Anniversary of The Music Man which received the 1958 Tony Award for Best Musical, and its legendary creator, Meredith Willson.
- 12/9/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Tony Award winner Jim Dale and Tony nominee and Drama Desk Award winner Robert Cuccioli headline in Here's Love To The Music Man A Celebration of Songwriter Meredith Willson, the opening event of The Ziegfeld Society's ninth Season, honoring the 60th Anniversary of The Music Man which received the 1958 Tony Award for Best Musical, and its legendary creator, Meredith Willson.
- 12/4/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles (Bbbsla) will honor outstanding members of the Los Angeles community at its annual Big Bash gala, October 20, 2017, at The Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills.
Awards recognize individuals who are inspiring and positive role models to our youth. Cindy Holland, Vice President, Original Content of Netflix, will be honored with the 2017 Sherry Lansing Award. Bbbsla Big Brother Travis Van Winkle of TNT’s The Last Ship and Bbbsla Big Sister Kelly Sullivan of TLC’s Too Close to Home, co-host.
Holland, a 15-year Netflix veteran, is responsible for acquiring and launching original series for the more than 104 million Netflix members worldwide. Under her purview, Holland and her team have launched award-winning and critically acclaimed projects that span drama, comedy, family/young adult, documentaries, stand-up specials and docu-series. Previously, Holland oversaw domestic television licensing for Netflix. Holland is a graduate of Stanford University. An avid cyclist,...
Awards recognize individuals who are inspiring and positive role models to our youth. Cindy Holland, Vice President, Original Content of Netflix, will be honored with the 2017 Sherry Lansing Award. Bbbsla Big Brother Travis Van Winkle of TNT’s The Last Ship and Bbbsla Big Sister Kelly Sullivan of TLC’s Too Close to Home, co-host.
Holland, a 15-year Netflix veteran, is responsible for acquiring and launching original series for the more than 104 million Netflix members worldwide. Under her purview, Holland and her team have launched award-winning and critically acclaimed projects that span drama, comedy, family/young adult, documentaries, stand-up specials and docu-series. Previously, Holland oversaw domestic television licensing for Netflix. Holland is a graduate of Stanford University. An avid cyclist,...
- 10/20/2017
- Look to the Stars
Hannibal Missouri's own brash and beguiling Molly Brown shines in this exhilarating adaptation of Meredith Willson's 1960 musical. Her rags-to-riches story sparkles with a new book by Dick Scanlan Thoroughly Modern Millie, and new songs from the Meredith Willson songbook.
- 7/22/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
With lyrics and music by Meredith Willson, additional lyrics and book by Dick Scanlan, based on the original book by Richard Morris, The Unsinkable Molly Brown will run at The Muny from July 21 to 27, 2017.
- 7/22/2017
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
(See previous post: Fourth of July Movies: Escapism During a Weird Year.) On the evening of the Fourth of July, besides fireworks, fire hazards, and Yankee Doodle Dandy, if you're watching TCM in the U.S. and Canada, there's the following: Peter H. Hunt's 1776 (1972), a largely forgotten film musical based on the Broadway hit with music by Sherman Edwards. William Daniels, who was recently on TCM talking about 1776 and a couple of other movies (A Thousand Clowns, Dodsworth), has one of the key roles as John Adams. Howard Da Silva, blacklisted for over a decade after being named a communist during the House Un-American Committee hearings of the early 1950s (Robert Taylor was one who mentioned him in his testimony), plays Benjamin Franklin. Ken Howard is Thomas Jefferson, a role he would reprise in John Huston's 1976 short Independence. (In the short, Pat Hingle was cast as John Adams; Eli Wallach was Benjamin Franklin.) Warner...
- 7/5/2017
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
In 1957, Meredith Willson wagered he could get Broadway audiences to cheer for The Music Man's serial swindler who cheats nice people out of their hard-earned money and harasses the leading lady on the street and at her workplace while lying his way into her arms. Fortunately for him, the handsome and charming Robert Preston seduced audiences as well as Professor Harold Hill seduced early 20th Century Iowans.
- 5/1/2017
- by Michael Dale
- BroadwayWorld.com
At tonight's St. Louis's annual Arts amp Education Council Awards dinner, Broadway artist Beth Malone announced that she will star in the title role of The Muny's 2017 production of The Unsinkable Molly Brown. The production will run from July 21-27, and will be directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall. The Unsinkable Molly Brown has music and lyrics by Meredith Willson, with additional lyrics and book by Dick Scanlan, based on the original book by Richard Morris. Music adaptation is by Michael Rafter.
- 1/24/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Talk Is Free Theatre Tift will convert downtown Barrie into the song amp dance filled streets of River City, Iowa in its upcoming rendition of Meredith Willson's The Music Man, tonight, Sept. 14,to Oct. 2, 2016. During this revolutionary, immersive production, audiences will be whisked from one city site to the next to witness the witty amp whimsical tale as its cast marches through town amongst unsuspecting Barrie. Click below to watch a new trailer for the production...
- 9/14/2016
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Happy Birthday, Robert Preston best remembered for his performance as 'Professor' Harold Hill in Meredith Willson's musical The Music Man 1962. He had already won a Tony Award for his performance in the original Broadway production, in 1957. In 1965 he was the male part of a duo-lead musical, I Do I Do with Mary Martin, for which he won his second Tony Award. He played the title role in the musical Ben Franklin in Paris and originated the role of Henry II in the original production of The Lion in Winter. In 1974 he starred alongside Bernadette Peters in Jerry Herman's Broadway musical Mack amp Mabel as Mack Sennett, the famous silent film director. That same year 1974 the film version of Mame, another famed Jerry Herman musical, was released with Preston starring, alongside Lucille Ball, in the role of Beauregard Burnside.
- 6/8/2016
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Today in 1980, The Music Man opened at City Center, where it ran for 21 performances. The Music Man is a musical with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson, based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey. The plot concerns con man Harold Hill, who poses as a boys' band organizer and leader and sells band instruments and uniforms to naive townsfolk before skipping town with the cash. In 1957, the show became a hit on Broadway, winning five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and running for 1,375 performances.
- 6/5/2016
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. The Little Foxes is playing on Mubi in the Us February 15 through March 15, 2016.William Wyler and Bette Davis had a good thing going by the time of The Little Foxes (1941). Wyler had three (of his eventually 12) Academy Award nominations and he had directed the star in two Oscar-worthy performances of her own: Jezebel (1938), for which she won, and The Letter (1940), for which she didn’t. Though it would grow increasingly contentious, their association was nonetheless mutually productive, and while Davis may have been reluctant to take on the role played to great acclaim by Tallulah Bankhead in Lillian Hellman’s stage version of The Little Foxes, the resulting feature film trumped the trepidation. Set in the indistinct though suitably decrepit “Deep South” circa 1900, the backdrop is just vague enough to be regionally collective but just specific enough to be wholly unique.
- 2/22/2016
- by Jeremy Carr
- MUBI
A disreputable charmer brings the joy of music to a staid community while stirring up romance with an uptight lady: If the plot of School of Rock sounds like a great musical, that’s because it is. It’s The Music Man. But School of Rock, however much it borrows the shape of Meredith Willson’s 1957 classic, has a different agenda, one that’s arguably more timely and certainly less poetic. Its Harold Hill figure, called Dewey Finn, has real instead of imaginary instruments to offer, and the music he’s evangelizing isn’t Sousa but the Stones. Nonconformity replaces community as the theme; the key title in the score by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Glenn Slater (with a few songs lifted from the hit 2003 movie) is called “Stick It to the Man.” Trouble, we are told, isn’t something music will prevent but something it will enhance: “Wreck your...
- 12/7/2015
- by Jesse Green
- Vulture
The battle of the sexes is on Some of the most memorable Broadway characters will square off inGuys vs. Dolls A Musical Survey of Sex and Sexismfeaturing the songs of Cole Porter, Frank Loesser, Rodgers amp Hammerstein and many more. Explore the passion and perils of love and marriage as depicted by the great writers of Broadway, including Cole Porter, Frank Loesser, Irving Berlin, Lerner amp Loewe, Yip Harburg, Burton Lane, Rodgers amp Hammerstein, Rodgers amp Hart, Stephen Sondheim, Jule Styne, Meredith Willson, William Finn, Maltby amp Shire and Jerry Herman.
- 11/3/2015
- by Nora Dominick
- BroadwayWorld.com
Today in 2000, the second Broadway revival of The Music Man openened at the Neil Simon Theatre, where it ran for 699 performances. The Music Man is a musical with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson, based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey. The plot concerns con man Harold Hill, who poses as a boys' band organizer and leader and sells band instruments and uniforms to naive townsfolk before skipping town with the cash. In 1957, the show became a hit on Broadway, winning five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and running for 1,375 performances. The cast album won the first Grammy Award for 'Best Original Cast Album'. The show's success led to revivals and a popular 1962 film adaptation and a 2003 television remake.
- 4/27/2015
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Just a few weeks after the Disney Company roared that The Lion King had become the highest-grossing entertainment of all time, NBCUniversal today announced that Robert Greenblatt, chairman of NBC Entertainment, will oversee the company’s live-theater division, Universal Stage Productions. Jimmy Horowitz, Universal Pictures President, will “continue to run” Usp, while expanding its reach into NBCUni properties throughout film, TV and digital.
Chris Herzberger, Universal’s Executive of Live Theatricals, will continue in that position as hands-on with works in progress and a growing roster of developmental projects.
The company is not exactly a carpetbagger on Broadway, with a major stake in the long-running Wicked, a global box office phenomenon. Greenblatt is a producer of the most recent Tony Best Musical, A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder and of a “revisal” of Meredith Willson’s The Unsinkable Molly Brown at the Denver Center Theatre Company. The company...
Chris Herzberger, Universal’s Executive of Live Theatricals, will continue in that position as hands-on with works in progress and a growing roster of developmental projects.
The company is not exactly a carpetbagger on Broadway, with a major stake in the long-running Wicked, a global box office phenomenon. Greenblatt is a producer of the most recent Tony Best Musical, A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder and of a “revisal” of Meredith Willson’s The Unsinkable Molly Brown at the Denver Center Theatre Company. The company...
- 10/7/2014
- by Jeremy Gerard
- Deadline
The world premiere of a new version of the Meredith Willson musical, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, is open at the Denver Center Theatre Company. Host of 'In Focus', Eden Lane learns about the project from the creative team Dick Scanlan and the DirectorChoreographer Kathleen Marshall. Beth Malone Molly Brown and Burke Moses J.J. Brown tell Eden about creating this new look at their characters. Click below to watch the interviews...
- 9/29/2014
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Denver Center Theatre Company presents the highly anticipated new adaptation of Meredith Willson's classic musical, The Unsinkable Molly Brown. Based on the book by Richard Morris, the revitalized production will feature a new book and additional lyrics by three-time Tony Award nominee Dick Scanlan Thoroughly Modern Millie and showcase never before heard songs from Willson's prolific body of work with musical adaptation by Michael RafterViolet. It is be directed and choreographed by three-time Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall Anything Goes. Check out a first look at the opening night party.
- 9/26/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
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