Tag: Cy Coleman
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WILDCAT
December 17, 1960 Wildcat is a musical comedy about Wildcat Jackson and her sister who come to oil country in 1912 to strike it rich. She runs into the prowess of Joe Dynamite, and a battle of the sexes and the oil tycoons ensues. Wildcat wasn’t written with the 48 year-old queen of comedy in…
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RIP James Lipton
1926-2020 James Louis Lipton was an American writer, producer, host, actor and dean emeritus of the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University in New York City. He was the executive producer, writer and host of the cable television series “Inside the Actors Studio” which debuted in 1994. He retired from the show in 2018. His production…
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RIP SID RAMIN (1919-2019) ~ Composer, Arranger, and Orchestrator who (with Robert Ginzler) arranged and orchestrated the Cy Coleman score for the 1960 Broadway musical WILDCAT starring Lucille Ball. The score includes what became Lucille Ball’s signature song, “Hey, Look Me Over!”
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GYPSY IN MY SOUL
January 10, 1976 on CBS Directed and Choreographed by Tony Charmoli Produced by William O. Harbach, Fred Ebb, Cy Coleman Written by Fred Ebb Music by Cy Coleman Shirley MacLaine was born Shirley MacLean Beaty in Richmond, Virginia, in 1934. Her younger brother is the actor Warren Beatty. Shirley was stand-by for Carol Haney in Broadway’s…
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December 16, 1960 – “Wildcat”
papermoon4: I love Lucy. Need I say more? And since we are talkin’ Broadway, that can only mean one thing: “Wildcat.” “Wildcat” is a musical comedy about Wildcat Jackson (Ball) and her sister who come to oil country to strike it rich. She runs into the prowess of Joe Dynamite, and a battle of the…
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