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The Band Wagon

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Also credited on9 works

The Cat And The Fiddle
Face the Music
Flying Colors
Funny Face
Lady, Be Good!
Gay Divorce
Fifty Million Frenchmen
Follies Of 1907
Rosalie

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In the literature8 passages

  • 23 . The Lady in the Dark playbill also included other highly distinguished collaborators: Sam H. Harris, who had earlier produced fifteen Cohan musicals, seven Berlin shows, the Gershwins’ Of Thee I Sing , Porter’s Jubilee , and Rodgers and Hart’s I’d Rather Be Right ; Hassard Short, director of production, lighting, and musical sequence…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
  • Over the next several years, Astaire continued to find steady acting opportunities with MGM, and the most acclaimed of Astaire’s 1950s films was The Band Wagon (1953), directed by Vincente Minnelli. The film features Astaire in a semi-autobiographical role as Tony Hunter, an aging musical comedy star. In fact, one of the major motifs of t…ebooks/Editors, Charles River/Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers_ The Story of Hollywood's Most Famous Dancers - Charles River Editors.txt
  • Put together by the same creative team that had been responsible for Three’s a Crowd, The Band Wagon may well have been the most sophisticated, imaginative, and musically distinguished revue ever mounted on Broadway. To assure that the production would have the same homogeneity of style as a book musical, there were no interpolations in t…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • The Band Wagon. “The Pride of the Claghornes” sketch with Helen Broderick, Adele Astaire, Frank Morgan, and Fred Astaire. (Vandamm)ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Flying Colors flew in a direct line from The Little Show, Three’s a Crowd, and The Band Wagon. Like all three, it had music by Arthur Schwartz and lyrics by Howard Dietz (though this time Dietz also received credit as sole sketch writer and director). Like the most recent two revues, it was produced by Max Gordon and was choreographed by…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • The second of the Shubert-sponsored Winter Garden revues in the mid-Thirties, Life Begins at 8.40 had something of the style of The Band Wagon and the topicality of As Thousands Cheer. With John Murray Anderson in overall charge, it was also the successor to the Anderson-directed Ziegfeld Follies that had opened the same year. (The show’s…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt

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