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Revue
Musique: Arthur Schwartz • Paroles: Howard Dietz • Livret: *** Revue • Production originale: 1 version mentionnée
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At Home Abroad is a revue with music by Arthur Schwartz and lyrics by Howard Dietz. It introduced the songs "Love Is a Dancing Thing", "What a Wonderful World" and "Got a Bran' New Suit", among others. The revue follows a bored couple who flee America and go on a musical world tour.
Genèse: The original Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on September 19, 1935, and ran for 198 performances. It featured in the cast Beatrice Lillie, Ethel Waters, Herb Williams, Eleanor Powell, Paul Haakon, Reginald Gardiner, Eddie Foy Jr., Vera Allen, and John Payne . Sketches were scripted by Raymond Knight, Marc Connelly and others. The revue was produced by Messrs. Shubert, and directed by Vincente Minnelli and Thomas Mitchell; the first Broadway musical to be directed by Minnelli.
Résumé: The setting is a cruise around the world, featuring 25 musical numbers at various locations: a London store, an African jungle ("Hottentot Potentate"), a Balkan country where Powell taps spy messages, and a West Indies dockside for "Loadin' Time", to mention a few. The revue gave Bea Lillie the range of a variety of exotic locations. She had the tongue-twister lines "two dozen double damask dinner napkins"; became a Russian ballerina who could not "face the mujik"; and disrupted the line of geisha girls with "It's better with your shoes off" in a Japanese garden. In "Paree", she was a Parisian grisette in the Moulin Rouge in Paris, and "made something of a carnival of this song, with lyrics like 'I want to kiss your right bank, kiss your left bank; kiss Montparnasse' with the emphasis on the last syllable."
Création: 19/9/1935 - Winter Garden Theatre (Broadway) - 198 représ.
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Musique: Arthur Schwartz • Paroles: Dorothy Fields • Livret: J.P. McEvoy • Production originale: 1 version mentionnée
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Trois saisons plus tôt, Ethel Merman et Jimmy Durante avaient triomphé dans Red, Hot and Blue (), et ils se retrouvaient à nouveau ensemble dans Stars in Your Eyes d’Arthur Schwartz et Dorothy Fields. Mais en dépit de Merman et Durante, une distribution qui comprenait des comiques acerbes comme Mildred Natwick, Mary Wickes et Clinton Sundberg, et les danseurs Tamara Toumanova, Alicia Alonso, Fernando Alonso, Nora Kaye, Jerome Robbins et Maria Karnilova; une très belle partition qui allait de l'humour (A Lady Needs a Change, It’s All Yours) au flamboyant (I’ll Pay the Check) en passant par le style optimiste (This Is It); et une critique élogieuse du célèbre Brooks Atkinson dans le New York Times.. Le musical a fermé en moins de quatre mois à Broadway.
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Création: 9/2/1939 - Majestic Theatre (Broadway) - 127 représ.