Read Enchanted Evenings:The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber Online
Authors: Geoffrey Block
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)