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The official soundtrack to Jim Strouse’s heartfelt comedy, People, Places and Things features an original score from award-winning film composer Mark Orton.
Broadway composer Charles Strouse is such a sunshiny, straight-arrow sort of guy you probably could have predicted he'd call his tell-all "Put on a Happy Face" (after, of course, a song he and...
Strouse’s film scores include Bonnie & Clyde (1967), for which he received a Grammy nomination for Best Original Film Score, There Was a Crooked Man (1970), with Henry Fonda and Kirk Douglas, The Night They Raided Minsky’s (1968), Sidney Lumet’s Just Tell Me What You Want, and the animated feature All Dogs Go To Heaven (1989). His two ...
Contemporary film music scholars have posited a different model for film music's operation in which music and image are interdependent, sharing power to shape meaning. As Claudia Gorbman put it in her pioneering study, film music works by anchoring the image, shutting off certain readings and emphasizing others, policing the ways in which the ...
He had a number-one hit single in 1958, “Born Too Late,” sung by The Poni-Tails. Strouse’s first full-length book musical was the 1960 Broadway hit Bye Bye Birdie (“Put on a Happy Face,” “A Lot of Livin’ to Do,” “We Love You Conrad”).
Special Features A Life in the Theatre: Charles Strouse The composer of Annie, Golden Boy, Applause and the upcoming Minsky's is back on Broadway with his first hit — Bye Bye Birdie. By Mervyn...
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Composer Charles Strouse's big break came in 1960 with "Bye Bye Birdie," which is often cited as the first musical to acknowledge the existence of rock 'n' roll. It starred Dick Van Dyke and...
