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4 days ago · The show debuted on Broadway in 1978, in the golden days of American Musical Theater. The book and lyrics are by the legendary Betty Comden and Adolph Green (On the Town, Singing in the Rain), and the music by Cy Coleman (Sweet Charity, Will Rogers Follies). It’s everything a musical should be: big, loud, silly and sharp.
5 days ago · And then in 1978, the great Broadway writers Betty Comden and Adoph Green teamed up with Cy Coleman for the musical “On the Twentieth Century,” using much the same screwball story of the...
4 days ago · And then, in 1978, Cy Coleman, Betty Comden and Adolph Green set it all to music. The Tony-winning On the Twentieth Century was a dizzy propulsive delight made incandescent by Madeline Kahn's Broadway debut (in a performance so exhausting that she famously left the production early and was replaced by her understudy Judy Kaye, who in turn was ...
4 days ago · This musical, with book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Cy Coleman, returned to Chicago for the first time since its 1990s run at Drury Lane. The 2015 Broadway revival after a 37-year absence only heightened the excitement for this production, which certainly lived up to the hype."
23 hours ago · Coppola also spent time working with “Singin’ in the Rain” screenwriting duo Betty Comden and Adolph Greene, as well as composer Leonard Bernstein, but when his ill-fated Vegas-set, studio ...
1 day ago · He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing ...
4 days ago · May birthdays. Join host Lynne Warfel for two hours of your favorite film music on the latest episode of ‘Saturday Cinema,’ in which we celebrate May birthdays with music from the films of Audrey Hepburn, Betty Comden, Orson Welles, Fred Astaire and more. Listen now!
