Happy Birthday, Cy Coleman!
Happy Birthday, Cy Coleman!
FranklinShepard-Inc.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/04
#1Happy Birthday, Cy Coleman!
Posted: 6/14/08 at 4:28pm
He would have been 79 today! RIP
Anyone been at the concert performance of "Pamela's First Musical"?
sanda
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/10/04
#2re: Happy Birthday, Cy Coleman!
Posted: 6/14/08 at 5:31pmOne of my favorite composers. Happy Birthday!
#2re: Happy Birthday, Cy Coleman!
Posted: 6/14/08 at 6:21pmYou were a great Music Maker!!!
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#3re: Happy Birthday, Cy Coleman!
Posted: 6/14/08 at 6:44pm
The genius behind Sweet Charity!
Happy Birthday Mr Coleman!
What year did he die?
How old was he?
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#5re: Happy Birthday, Cy Coleman!
Posted: 6/14/08 at 10:40pmHappy Birthday, Cy. May Pamela's First Musical have a further life!
thatgirl712
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/29/08
#6re: Happy Birthday, Cy Coleman!
Posted: 6/14/08 at 11:18pmYou sure were a great music maker!
If I heard the bells and the banjos ring
#7re: Happy Birthday, Cy Coleman!
Posted: 6/15/08 at 2:55amHappy Birthday Cy!
"Everytime you step on that stage it is somebody's first Broadway show and somebody's last Broadway show. Make it count."
#8re: Happy Birthday, Cy Coleman!
Posted: 6/15/08 at 9:49am
Cy Coleman's best musical IMO was 1961's under-appreciated LITTLE ME, with hilarious lyrics by his partner Carolyn Leigh, and starring the brilliant comedian from the early days of television, Sid Caesar. It opened during a very long newspaper strike in NYC, which kept its glowing reviews and crucial newspaper advertising from the general public. The famous New York Herald Tribune theatre critic Walter Kerr called LITTLE ME "a blockbuster that is as gentle as a breeze". Its later revivals never captured the brilliance of the OBC, and failed unfortunately. The CD can still be purchased on one of the internet sites, but I can't remember which one. It is worth looking for. In my 54 years of theatre going, LITTLE ME stands out as THE funniest musical I have ever seen. "Here's To Us", the show's final number, is a fitting song for Cy Coleman's birthday anniversary.
Edit: I just checked and the CD is available on Amazon.com and ArkivMusic.com. It is a CD-R release, I believe.
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Updated On: 6/15/08 at 09:49 AM
