Enchanted Evenings:The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber (88 page)

Armitage, Merle, 67

Aronson, Boris, 346

Around the World in Eighty Days
(Porter), 215

Arms and the Man
(Shaw), 263

Armstrong, Louis, 59

“Art for Art’s Sake” (Blitzstein), 11, 123, 126,
127
, 128, 186

As Thousands Cheer
(Berlin), 346, W84n27, W126n28

“The Ascot Gavotte” (Lerner and Loewe), 265, 274, 326

Asimov, Isaac, W121n52

Aspects of Love
(Lloyd Webber and Hart and Black), 386, 408, 409, W130n2

Assassins
(Sondheim), 337, 338, 366, 379, 382

Astaire, Fred, 85, 87, 136, 156, 178, 189, 190

Astaire (Fred and Adele), 60, 190

Astaire (Fred) and Rogers (Ginger), 39, 156, 157

“At the Fair” (Kern and Hammerstein), 27, 160

Atkinson, Brooks, 20, 43–44, 46, 62–63, 86–87, 89, 101, 102, 114, 198–99, 253, 254, 259, 262, 279, W87n25

Australia
[film], 314

Avalon Boys quartet, 164, 175

Avenue Q
(Lopez and Marx), xxvii,

Ayers, Lemuel, 341

Azaria, Hank, 181, 182

Babbitt, Milton, 344–46, 347, W126n26, W126n30

Babes in Arms
(Rodgers and Hart), 84, 101, 180

Babington, Bruce, and Peter William Evans, 311–12

“Baby, It’s Cold Outside” (Loesser), 235, 244, 250

Bach, J. S., 241, 389

Bacchanale ballet (Weill), 136–37

Bailey, Pearl, 169

Balanchine, George, xxvi, 88, 190

Balcony Scene.
See
“Tonight”

“Bali Ha’i” (Rodgers and Hammerstein), 84, 108–9, W114n24

“The Ballad of Mack the Knife” (Brecht and Weill), 142, 143

“The Ballad of Sweeney Todd” (Sondheim), 352, 354, 355,
356
, 359, 363

Ballet Sequence (Bernstein), 305, 329, 330

The Band Wagon
(Schwartz and Dietz) [film], 87

Banfield, Stephen, xiii-xiv, xv, xxi, xxiv, xxvii, 159, 280, 351, 352, 379, 386–88, W76n13, W122n73, W122n 77, W127n48, W130n99–100

Bankhead, Tallulah, 49

Barlow, Samuel, 136

Barnes, Howard, W100n59

Barnett, Etta Moten, 70

Bathing at Asnières
[painting] (Seurat), 365–66

Batman films (Burton), 398

“Be Like the Bluebird” (Porter), 53

Bean Theme (Sondheim), 372–73 (
372
)

Beaton, Cecil, 265, 323, 324, W124n16

The Beautiful Game
(Lloyd Webber and Elton), 408, 409

Beauty and the Beast
(Ashman, Menken, and Rice), xxi, xxvii

The Beauty Prize
(Kern and Wodehouse), 33

“Been a Long Day” (Loesser), 259

Beethoven, Ludwig, 126, 127, 128, 338, 382, W129n78

“Being Alive” (Sondheim), W130n95

“Begin the Beguine” (Porter), 215

Beggar on Horseback
(Kaufman and Connelly), 341

The Beggar’s Opera
(Gay) [opera], 349

“Being Alive” (Sondheim), 377, 378–79

Belafonte, Harry, 59, 169

Belgrad, Doug, 327

Bell, Michel, 27

Bells Are Ringing
(Styne, Comden and Green), 281, W116n2

Bennett, Michael, xxvii, 346, 348, 374, 376, W129n87

Bennett, Robert Russell, 20, 73, W80n47

“Bench Scene” (Rodgers and Hammerstein), 199–206 (
203
)

Benchley, Robert, W78n12

“Benvenuta” (Loesser), 255,
256

Berg, Alban, 59, 143, 254, 301

Berg, A. Scott, 171, 319

Bergman, Ingrid, 195

Berlin, Irving,
5,
15, 156, 216, 217, 234, 243, 250, W77n20

Berlioz, Hector, 355

Berman, Pandro, W90n7

Bernstein, Aline, W98n17

Bernstein, Felicia, 282, W120n44

Bernstein, Leonard, xii, xxvi, 6, 11, 15, 114, 136, 279–308 (
284
), 327–32, 335, 336, 342, 348, 350, 351, 365, 382, 392, W115n46, W129n82

“Bess, You Is My Woman Now” (G. and I. Gershwin and Heyward), 59, 66, 67, 69,
75
, 76, 79–
80
, 81

Bess’s theme (Gershwin), 78–80, W89n81

“The Best Years of His Life” (Weill and I. Gershwin), 140, 145

The Best Years of Our Lives
[film], 320

“Bewitched” (Rodgers and Hart), 98, 104–7 (
106
), 110, 111, 179, 238

Beymer, Richard,
328

“Bianca” (Porter), 217, 218, 224, 226, 228, 315

“Big D” (Loesser), 252, 253, 254, 255

“Bill” (Kern, Wodehouse, and Hammerstein), 26, W81n52

Bing, Rudolf, W87n39

Björnson, Maria, 387

Blackwell, Harolyn, 177

Blades, Rubén, 184

Blaine, Vivian, 321

Blakemore, Michael, xviii

Blitzstein, Marc, xxvi, 11, 15, 112–28 (
113)
, 136, 144, 180–86, 284, 286, W115n46, W121n67

Block, Geoffrey, W74n12, W76n13, W77n25, W121n63

Bloom, Harold, 277, W76n7, W110n35

Blore, Eric, 156

Blossom Time
(Romberg and Donnelly), 390, W131n17

“Blow, Gabriel, Blow” (Porter), 40, 53, 55, 159, 164

Blue Monday
(Gershwin), 59

Blues (from “The Dance at the Gym”) (Bernstein), 295, 305, W118n32

Boccherini, Luigi, W103n29

Bock (Jerry) and Harnick (Sheldon), xxvi

Bogin, Abba, W112n43

Boléro
(Ravel), 104

Bolger, Ray, 85,
86
, 91, 235, 236

Bolton, Guy, 46, 47, 50.
See also
Wodehouse (P. G.) and Bolton (Guy)

Bombay Dreams
(Rahman and Black), 408

“Bon Voyage” (Porter), 44

Bond, Christopher, 349, 352–53

Bordman, Gerald, xiii, xix, 52, W73n4, W78n8, W80n46, W80n47, W98n21

Bordoni, Irene, 42, 49

Boris Gudunov
(Musorgsky), 28

Born to Dance
[film], 156, 189

Borodin, Alexander, 233

“Boruch attah adonoi” (Jewish prayer),
77

Boswell, John, 211

Boublil (Alain) and Schönberg (Claude-Michel), xxi, xxvi, xxvii, 394

Boulanger, Nadia, 116

Bounce
(Sondheim).
See
Road Show

“A Bowler Hat” (Sondheim), 379

“A Boy Like That / I Have a Love.”
See
“I Have a Love”

The Boys from Syracuse
(Rodgers and Hart), 47, 84, 97, 101

The Boys in the Photograph. See
The Beautiful Game

Brando, Marlon,
319
, 320–21, 325

Brecht, Bertolt, 112, 116, 117, 120, 124, 131, 140, 141, 142, 143, 147, 183

Breen, Joseph, 164

Brice, Fanny, 105

Bridge, Andrew, 387

Brigadoon
(Lerner and Loewe), 14, 263, 278

Brightman, Sarah, 385, 395, W7

Bristow, Eugene K., and J. Kevin Butler, 336–37

Broadway Melody of 1940
[film], 156, 189

Broderick, Matthew, 259

“Brotherhood of Man” (Loesser), 245

Brown, Anne, 175

Brown, Gwynne Kuhner, W88n67, W102n14

Brown, Jason Robert, xxvi

Brown, Joe E., 158

Brown, John Mason, 102

“Brush Up Your Shakespeare” (Porter), 219, 225, 226, 318

Brynner, Yul, 324

Bubbles, John W., 71

Buckley, Betty, W125n1

“Buddie, Beware” (Porter), 45, 46, 50, 358

Bullets over Broadway
[film], 180

Burleske
for piano and orchestra (R. Strauss), W118n26

Burns (George) and Allen (Gracie), 190

Burton, Humphrey, 294, W118n29, W121n57

Burton, Richard, 278

Burton, Tim, xxiii, 349, 355, 360–61, 363, 364, 365, 398

Burrows, Abe, 237–38, 252, 259, 320

“A Bushel and a Peck” (Loesser), 322

Busoni, Ferruccio, 136, 262

Butler, Gerard, 399

“Buzzard Song” (G. Gershwin and Heyward), 7, 65–69,
75
, 76, 81, 170, 175

By George
(Sondheim), 340, W125n15

By Jeeves
(Lloyd Webber and Ayckbourn), 385

By Jupiter
(Rodgers and Hart), 84, 85, 109

“By the Sea” (Sondheim), 359, 364

Cabaret
(Kander and Ebb), xix, xxvi, 16, 347, 348, W100n55

Cabaret
[revival], xxvii, 89

Cabin in the Sky
[film], 156

Cagney, James, 4

Cahn, Sammy, 159

Call Me Madam
(Berlin), 281

Calling All Cars
[radio drama], 165

Camelot
(Lerner and Loewe), 152, 277–78, W116n63

Campbell, Mrs. Patrick, 267, W115n34

Can-Can
(Porter), 216, 232

“Can That Boy Foxtrot!” (Sondheim), 374, W129n77

“Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man” (Kern and Hammerstein),
28, 29
, 31, 158, 161, 199

Candide
(Bernstein and Wilbur et al.), 89, 234, 243, 282, 283, 286, 289, 301, 308, 347, 348, 378, W111n34, W118n35, W122n74, W123n80, W128n73

Calloway, Cab, 166, 169

“Captain Andy’s Ballyhoo” (Kern and Hammerstein), 34, 161

Captain Andy’s theme (Kern and Hammerstein), 29,
30
, 31, 38

Carefree
(Berlin) [film], 136, 156

“Carefully Taught” (Rodgers and Hammerstein), 214

Carey, MacDonald, 146

Carmelina
(Lane and Lerner), 278

Carmen
(Bizet) [opera], 64, 169, 295, 349

Carmichael, Hoagy,
5,
234

Caron, Leslie, 325

Carousel
(Rodgers and Hammerstein) [musical], xi, xviii, xxii, xxvi, 11, 12, 14, 26, 39, 47, 54, 83, 84, 100, 143, 147, 172, 176, 195–214 (
202
), 213, 215, 216, 218, 221, 231, 233, 241, 280, 281, 338, 342, 358, 394

Synopsis (W1–2)

Discography and Filmography (W12)

Appendix A (W26)