That’s Entertainment, 1972

The run closed April 16, 1972

Opened

April 14, 1972

Closed

April 16, 1972

Performances

4

Previews

—

Theatre

Edison Theatre

Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 533rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it10 named

Larry Kert1930–1991

V

Vivian Reed—

S

Scott Salmon1943–1993

M

Michael Vitab. 1978

A

Alan Weeks—

David Chaney
Jered Holmes
Judith Knaiz
Michon Peacock
Bonnie Schon

5 of these 10 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 5 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director

Paul Aaron

Choreographer

Larry Fuller

Orchestrations

Luther Henderson

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Around this production

That's Entertainment is a 1972 musical revue featuring the music of songwriting team Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz that uses orchestrations and arrangements by Luther Henderson. The show's book was crafted by uncredited writers. Historian Howard Dietz stated that the show's authors "created character names for all the singers and utilized snatches of dialogue in an awkward attempt to place the songs in a fabricated story context."

Videocassette: excerpt included in That’s Entertainment, MGM/UA. The Melody Lingers On the Great Songwriters and Their Movie Hemming Roy New York, p. 41

• Today, Fabray is most likely remembered by musical comedy lovers as one of the quartet who introduced Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz’s standard “That’s Entertainment” in MGM’s classic 1953 film musical The Band Wagon. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 28
• The two-CD set by That’s Entertainment (# CDTER2-1170) includes “Bored,” “In the Beginning, Woman,” “Golden Land, Golden Life,” “My Magic Lamp,” and “Power” (the latter written for, but not used in, Timbuktu! ). Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 355
• 'That’s Entertainment”—written for 1953 movie version Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 269
• 'That’s Entertainment’’. His skill also displayed itself in outstanding rhythmic work (“I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan” and the 1954 movie song ‘‘That’s Entertainment’’). Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 282
• Dietz and Schwartz wrote one new song for the movie, the jaunty and clever show-business salute “That’s Entertainment,” which quickly took its place with Irving Berlin’s “There’s No Business Like Show Business” (Annie Get Your Gun, 1946) and Cole Porter’s “Another Op’nin’, Another Show” (Kiss Me, Kate, 1948) as part of… The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 151

Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• No recording is held for That’s Entertainment at all.
• No show page for That’s Entertainment. The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
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