Musicals Tonight Season to Include STRIKE UP THE BAND, LEAVE IT TO JANE and More

By: May. 23, 2012
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Musicals Tonight has announced that its upcoming season will include the following shows:

Red, Hot and Blue (October 2 – 14, 2012) has music and lyrics by Cole Porter.  It’s about a former manicurist - Ethel Merman, an ex-con - Jimmy Durante, and a square boyfriend - Bob Hope; and their misadventures.  This pairing of Cole Porter and Ethel Merman followed Anything Goes by one year. Songs: It's De-Lovely, Down in the Depths on the 90th Floor, A Little Skipper from Heaven Above, How’m I Ridin’? 

Fade Out – Fade In (October 16 – 28, 2012) is a musical spoof about Hollywood in the 1930s. With a book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Jule Styne and starred Carol Burnett. Songs: Call Me Savage; Usher from the Mezzanine; My Fortune is My Face; Lila Tremaine; Dangerous Age; Fiddler and the Fighter.
 
Strike Up the Band (March 12 – 24, 2013) has lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and music by George Gershwin. Songs: Fletcher's American Chocolate Choral Society; I Mean to Say; Soon; Three Cheers for the Union;   He Knows Milk; Strike Up the Band; Mademoiselle from New Rochelle; I've Got a Crush on You; (How About a Boy) Like Me?
 
Same Time, Next Year (April 2 – 14, 2013) was a play by Bernard Slade about a couple who meet for a romantic tryst once a year for 24 years. Ellen Burstyn received Tony and Drama Desk Awards.  Stan Daniels who won eight Emmy Awards for The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Taxi musicalized the show – an American premiere.
 
Leave It to Jane (April 16 – 28, 2013) satirizes college life in a Midwestern U.S. town, with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse. Songs: Good Old Atwater; Watch My Step; Leave It to Jane; Crickets Are Calling: Cleopatterer: The Days of Chivalry; Siren's Song; I'm Going to Find a Girl.
 
The Lion Theatre (410 West 42nd Street) is our venue (88 seats)
 
Subscriptions available at this time only – single tickets go on sale after Labor Day
 
For subscription information contact:  Mel Miller, Artistic Director – musicalstonight@aol.com OR 212-362-5620


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