With The Sound Of Music coming to tv, I thought it would be interesting to list some of the other tv musicals.
Damn Yankees starring Phil Silvers as Applegate, Lee Remick as Lola, Linda Lavin as Gloria, Jim Backus and Ray Middleton. Link
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There have been so many from the '50s to the '60s. The '50s Kiss Me Kate and bizarre Anything Goes are on DVD - I wish the same people would release the excellent Roz Russell Wonderful Town which I only have on VHS.
The Fantasticks was done (abridged I believe) as was Charlie Brown of course. Robert Goulet did Carousel in the '60s. That bizarre Superman from the early 70s and Bacall in Applause.
TONS of original musicals including Bacharac/David's On the Flip Side, Sondheim's Evening Primrose...
There was Peter Pan with Mary Martin. And Amahl and the Night Visitors, though that one is an opera.
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Rodger's and Hammerstein Cinderella - a few versions of it In the 90s ABC did a few: Once Upon a Mattress with Tracy Ullman Music Man with Matthew Broderick Annie with Victor Garber
Bye Bye Birdie with Jason Alexander and Vanessa Williams. South Pacific with Glenn Close.
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A number of Menotti's operas were on tv, aside from Amahl, his biggest hit The Medium was an early broadcast as was the kinda bizarre The Consul.
And of course Tab Hunter, who had been a top notch figure skater, in Hans Brinker http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y82NXnAyLV0 He doesn't seem to think too much of it in his memoirs.
There's very little of On the Flipside online, but it was part of the same series as Evening Primrose and the Harnick/Boch Canterbury Ghost.
The clips all seem to be from Rick Nelson fans -- I have a soft spot for the score (it predated Promises Promises) but it's very silly stuff, a kinda male pop star Cinderella.
TV musicals include- RUGGLES OF RED GAP THE DANGEROUS CHRISTMAS OF RED RIDING HOOD SATINS AND SPURS THE PIED PIPER OF HAMLIN PINOCCHIO HANSEL AND GRETEL ANDROCLES AND THE LION ALADDIN THE MIKADO -Groucho Marx version THE STINGIEST MAN IN TOWN THE ADVENTURES OF MARCO POLO OLYMPUS 7-0000 While not originally written for TV, the same series that presented the Robert Goulet CAROUSEL also presented BRIGADOON, KISS ME KATE and KISMET. All of the above (except KISMET) have had LP releases, and some have been re-released on CD.
I remember seeing ONCE UPON A MATTRESS with Carol Burnett on television when I was a kid. It was wonderful, but was never heard from again. they also aired AINT MISBEHAVIN with the original cast in the 80's. I would LOVE to have that on DVD.
Ethel Merman did a televised version of ANNIE GET YOUR GUN after her 1966 Lincoln Center revival. Aside from this number, it's reportedly been lost to the ages. Sun in the Morning
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Check The Paley Center for Media website. Many of these musicals are available in their catalog but you will have to sit at a console and watch it in the library.
I really enjoyed the TV version of "Brigadoon", a breath of fresh air in "66 or "67 when I saw it as a college freshman.
I see no mention of "Applause" with Lauren Bacall - a real surprise to see it on tv. Is this out there somewhere? Loved the Broadway show, but can't really remember how well the tv broadcast transferred to the little screen.