Theatre in 1953 (Blogathon ’09 #2)
Next up – 1953′s Tony Award for Best Play: The Crucible, by Arthur Miller. While this is a great play, I picked this one to talk about because I personally have some connection to it. This was the very...
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Theatre in 1956 (Blogathon ’09 #3)
Cover of The Diary of a Young Girl This important work won both the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1956. The Diary of Anne Frank is the stage adaptation by Frances...
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This production didn’t win, but nonetheless it remains a favorite musical for many many people. One of the Tony Awards Best Musical Nominees of 1958 was West Side Story With a book by the great Leonard...
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One of the very first musicals that I ever saw (on VHS, lol) was The Sound of Music, one of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s greatest collaborations. It is one my mother’s favorite musicals, and so we...
View ArticleTheatre in 1961 (Blogathon ’09 #6)
The Tony Award for Best Play in 1961 went to Becket, by Jean Anouilh. This play is well know to have a LOT of historical inaccuracies . . . but that doesn’t mean that it’s not good theatre! From...
View ArticleTheatre in 1962 (Blogathon ’09 #7)
In 1962, both the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama went to How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Interesting tidbit from Wikipedia: The original Broadway...
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Theatre in 1965 (Blogathon ’09 #10)
Image via Wikipedia One of my favorite musicals of all time is Tony Award winning Best Musical Fiddler on the Roof. This is just a stunning work, both on-stage and on-screen. Topol is the embodiment...
View ArticleTheatre in 1966 (Blogathon ’09 #11)
Never before has the Spanish Inquisition been so entertaining as in the 1966 Tony Award winning Best Musical Man of La Mancha (OK, maybe in Mel Brooks’s History of the World: Part I)! This musical has...
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Theatre in 2001 (Blogathon ’09 #41)
Image via Wikipedia Mel Brooks makes his Broadway debut with Tony Award winning Best Musical The Producers. By far the most successful of all his theatrical productions, The Producers is hilarious!...
View ArticleTheatre in 2004 (Blogathon ’09 #44)
I was fortunate enough to see Tony Award nominee for Best Musical Wicked in the last week that the original cast was there. I adore this show. I’ve read the book, and it was just too political for...
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