Good morning, all! My weekend is pretty loose; I had planned to be at Toyland this morning, but I am stuck here waiting for my Mac Man to help me with an email problem: my server will accept emails but will not send them because it claims my password is wrong. Hopefully, h can help me clear up this mess.
So, I'll go to Toyland tomorrow and cart home some more things.
DR Michael Shayne, thank you for the kind compliment.
I must say, I miss the old days, where a Broadway orchestra had 25-35 musicians and off-Broadway musicals had 5-10. Now, it's all bar mitzvah bands , although the new revival of On The Town has around 28 players, making it, the revival of Finian's Rainbow, and the Lincoln Center South Pacific the only revivals to work with the shows' original orchestrations.
So, here area few of my favorites:
BROADWAY
1903: BABES IN TOYLAND (orchestrators Otto Langey and Victor Herbert)
1917: HAVE A HEART or OH, LADY! LADY! (Frank Saddler)
1924: SITTING PRETTY (Robert Russell Bennett)
1933: ROBERTA (Robert Russell Bennett)
1944: ON THE TOWN (Hershy Kay)
1945: CAROUSEL (Don Walker)
1956: CANDIDE (Hershy Kay)
1957: WEST SIDE STORY (Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal)
1960: WILDCAT (Robert Ginzler)
1962: A FUNNY THING HAPPENED (Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal)
1963: SHE LOVES ME (Don Walker)
1969: DEAR WORLD (Philip J. Lang)
1971: FOLLIES (Jonathan Tunick)
OFF-BROADWAY
1954: THREEPENNY OPERA (Kurt weill, adapted by Blitzstein)
1954: THE GOLDEN APPLE (Jerome Moross/Hershy Kay)
1960: THE FANTASTICKS (Julian Stein)
1960: ERNEST IN LOVE (Gershon Kingsley)
1963: THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE (Larry Wilcox)