John Steel

On stage 5 productions, 5 years

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Ziegfeld Follies

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In the literature7 passages

• Cast: Marilyn Miller, Eddie Cantor, Bert Williams, Eddie Dowling, Ray Dooley, Johnny Dooley, Delyle Alda, John Steel, Van & Schenck, Mary Hayebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• The curtain parted on an empty, dark stage. As the music started, the spotlight picked up John Steel walking slowly to center stage from the backdrop. John had a beautiful, clear tenor voice, and he sang the verse and a chorus of the Berlin song. Then as each girl appeared—one at a time—the music switched to refrains of well-known classic…ebooks/Magee, Jeffrey/Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater (Broadway Legacies) - Jeffrey Magee.txt
• John Steel, who sang “A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody” and would star in Berlin’s Music Box Revues. He was the avatar of many tenors who sang “beautiful girl” numbers in the succeeding decades. Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin .ebooks/Magee, Jeffrey/Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater (Broadway Legacies) - Jeffrey Magee.txt
• Berlin’s music, written with John Steel’s voice in mind, matches the elegance and subtlety of his lyrics (ex. 3.4 ). The verse is tuneful but mostly defers lyricism until the refrain. Its most lyrical moment highlights the compounded simile on “They go together like sunny weather / Goes with the month of May,” reaching a melodic peak on F…ebooks/Magee, Jeffrey/Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater (Broadway Legacies) - Jeffrey Magee.txt
• Moore also brought romance to her Music Box numbers. “An Orange Grove in California” featured Moore in a duet with John Steel portraying a couple separated by a great distance and longing to reunite in the setting described in the title. The song impressed theatergoers as a complete sensory experience of sight, sound, and even scent, with…ebooks/Magee, Jeffrey/Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater (Broadway Legacies) - Jeffrey Magee.txt
• MOORE, JOHN STEEL, IVY SAWYER, JOSEPH SANTLEY, GRACE MOORE, singing ‘‘YES, WE HAVE NO BANANAS” in “MUSIC BOX REVUE”theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt

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