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Musical Comedy Tonight III: Directed by Stan Harris. With Eddie Albert, Christine Andreas, Kaye Ballard, Gregg Burge. Sylvia Fine hosts this musical show featuring some great American singing and dancing stars, featuring music by Gershwin, Rodgers & Hart, Berlin and Kern.
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- Eddie Albert, Christine Andreas, Kaye Ballard
- Stan Harris
1h 30m. Synopsis. Songs and scenes by Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Rodgers and Hart, and Irving Berlin, performed by some of the country's leading musical comedy stars, and hosted by Sylvia Fine Kaye. The performance was taped before a live audience at Los Angeles' Wilshire Ebell Theatre. Directors. Stan Harris. Director. Sylvia Fine Kaye. Creator
- Stan Harris
- Clive Revill
Musical Comedy Tonight II: Directed by Tony Charmoli. With Sylvia Fine, Annette Charles, Richard Crenna, Nancy Dussault. A tribute to American musical theater, featuring scenes from "Show Boat", "South Pacific," "Sweet Charity," "Finian's Rainbow," and "Lady in the Dark", among others.
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- Sylvia Fine, Annette Charles, Richard Crenna
- Tony Charmoli
About this Item. Title. Musical Comedy Tonight - II. Contributor Names. Fine, Sylvia (author) Genre. script. Notes. - Includes lyrics and dialogue: "Finian's Rainbow" "This Time of the Year" "How Are Things in Cloccamorra?"
Instead of focusing solely on Danny's career, Sylvia turned her attention to other things. She worked on writing lyrics for a Broadway musical. She also taught some classes on music and comedy at Yale University. And Sylvia also produced some television specials entitled Musical Comedy Tonight.
Peabody Award for Musical Comedy Tonight. Sylvia Fine received much praise and awards for her 1979 PBS special Musical Comedy Tonight, but perhaps the greatest honor was wining a George Foster Peabody Award in 1980. The special traced the history of American musical comedy.
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She began teaching musical comedy at the University of Southern California in 1971 and at Yale in 1975. She produced and narrated the course as a 90-minute PBS program Musical Comedy Tonight (eventually a three-part series), earning her a Peabody Award in 1979.