About the Album: CD recording of the 2003 Comic Opera Guild Performance, with 25 songs, many not on the 1959 Off-Broadway recording. Music by Jerome Kern with book and lyrics by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse. The musical comedy is based on the play College Widow by George Ade. It opened at the Longacre Theatre, Broadway on March 29, 1917 and ran for 167 performances. The show enjoyed a revival in May, 1958. In this satire on college life in a Mid-Western town, Jane, the daughter of the president of Atwater College uses the wiles of a siren to keep the college star half-back Billy Bolton from going off to a rival college. Her seductive ways are sufficiently alluring, not only to keep Billy at Atwater but also to win him for herself. Payment via Paypal. Postage $2.50 via USPS and $4 international. Songs include: Good Old Atwater Wait Till Tomorrow Just You Watch My Step Leave It To Jane The Siren's Song There It Is Again Cleopatterer The Crickets Are Calling Sir Galahad The Sun Shines Brighter I'm Going To Find a Girl Poor Prune
An In-Depth History of the Orpheum Theatre
by Jennifer Ashley Tepper
- February 09, 2025
Some of the shows that the Orpheum has been best known for are Stomp, which ran there for an astounding 29 years, from 1994 to 2023, and the original production of Little Shop of Horrors which spent over five years at the theater from 1982 to 1987.
BWW Previews: Tony Award Winner Jay Johnson Will Headline 'Jay Johnson & Friends (Real And Imaginary)' at The Moss Theatre
by Valerie-Jean Miller
- November 01, 2019
One Performance Only! This Sunday, November 3, 2019!
Long ago but not far away at all, there were many TV Variety Shows, Award Ceremonies, Music Centers and Theatre abounding with live Musical Performances, all with massive budgets; and dancers in this town, Los Angeles, made a darn good living, albeit having to work their asses off to do so, but it was a good and plentiful, fulfilling life. Besides myself, there was a plethora of working, professional dancers who ended up bonding together pretty easily, as a dancer's life is one of a nomad, or gypsy, going from one job to another, but in doing so, finding kindred spirits and lifelong connections.
Jay Johnson, husband of one of these dancers and artistically gifted himself, was part of the artistic community, as was his wife, Sandi, and, typical with dancers, became close friends and comrades with other dancers, choreographers, and like-minded performers.
As Jay was earning international fame as a ventriloquist, actor and comedian, and starring on the hit TV Series 'Soap,' us dancers were slaving away, happy to be able to make a living doing what we loved.
Jay is best known for his role on ' Soap' as Chuck Campbell, a ventriloquist who believed his puppet Bob was real and demanded everyone treat Bob as human.
SDCF Conversation With Mandy Moore & Walter Painter Comes to Los Angeles, 9/24
by A.A. Cristi
- September 18, 2018
Award-winning choreographer MANDY MOORE and award-winning director/choreographer WALTER PAINTER join the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF) on Monday, September 24 from 7 to 8 pm at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles as part of SDCF's ongoing One-on-One Conversation series. The series returns to Los Angeles for another in-depth discussion with prominent artists, following its May conversation with the creative team of Soft Power at CTG. SDCF Executive Director David Roberts will moderate.
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