Tag: Hey Look Me Over
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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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Playbill Vault’s Today in Theatre History: December 16 | Playbill
Hey Look Me Over! This day (December 16th) in 1960 Lucy finally played Broadway! Playbill Vault’s Today in Theatre History: December 16 | Playbill
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RIP Valerie Harper
1939-2019 Valerie Harper’s first appearance with Lucille Ball was not on television, but in Broadway’s WILDCAT (1960) as a member of the ensemble (right). Valerie Harper won an Emmy Award in 1971 for playing Rhoda Morgenstern on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” Her co-star, Edward Asner, also won that night. Lucille Ball was in attendance because “Here’s…
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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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LUCY, JOE & ALVIN, TOO!
Lucille Ball always wanted to be a star on Broadway – until the silver screen and the small screen claimed her for posterity. Using the stage name Diane Belmont, she was chosen to appear in Earl Carroll’s Vanities, for the third road company of Ziegfeld’s Rio Rita, and for Step Lively, but none of these…
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LUCY AND PETULA CLARK
S5;E8 ~ October 30, 1972 Directed by Coby Ruskin ~ Written by Bob O’Brien Synopsis Singer Petula Clark is in town for a recording session and needs a personal companion and secretary. Lucy takes the job, but when she finds out the star is pregnant, Lucy turns Clark’s world upside down catering to the expectant…
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Lucy and Carol Burnett: Part 2
S6;E15 ~ December 11, 1967 Synopsis Lucy and Carol get their wings as flight attendants and perform a graduation revue about the history of aviation with the stars of the motion picture Wings, Buddy Rodgers and Richard Arlen. Regular Cast Lucille Ball (Lucy Carmichael), Gale Gordon (Theodore J. Mooney) Mary Jane Croft (Mary Jane Lewis)…