Also credited on4 works
Fiorello!
Oklahoma!
110 in the Shade
Ziegfeld Follies
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In the literature8 passages
- 44 Bernstein's production of The Cradle Will Rock opened on 27 May 1939. The Harvard Crimson (23 May 1939) announced the event as follows: “The Student Union will present Marc Blitzstein's opera The Cradle Will Rock at Sanders Theatre, Saturday evening at eight-thirty o'clock. The production is under the direction of Leonard Bernstein '39…ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
- 56 Arthur Szathmary, who co-directed The Cradle Will Rock with Bernstein at Harvard.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
- 4 Marc Blitzstein (1905–64), American composer: a brilliant and innovative musician and a committed Communist. He met a violent death, murdered by three Portuguese sailors in Martinique. Bernstein's student production of The Cradle Will Rock in May 1939 took place less than two years after the famous Broadway opening of the original stagi…ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
- • The Cradle Will Rock : Off-Broadway production directed by John Houseman and starring Patti Lupone (1983); feature film about the making of the show against the backdrop of other turbulent events in art and politics in the 1930s, directed by Tim Robbins (1999)ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
- The Cradle Will Rock serves as a worthy representative to show both the wisdom and futility of the didactic political musical. Two songs from this “avant-garde” musical will be discussed from this perspective. The first is “Croon–Spoon,” which satirizes the vapidity of ephemeral popular music, and the second is “Art for Art’s Sake,” which…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
- Historians and Broadway enthusiasts relatively unfamiliar with either Blitzstein or The Cradle Will Rock may nevertheless know something of the circumstances behind this work’s extraordinary premiere on June 16, 1937 (directed by Orson Welles). As reported on the front page of the New York Times the next day—and almost invariably whenever…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
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