The Easter show that Year was What’s Up Doc which was a perfect holiday G rated film and a huge popular success both at the Hall and across the country. That seems pretty strange especially considering the NY rollout that Evans devised for it in Loew’s One and Two and other NY theaters which was a major profit making innovation at the time. I had never heard about the Godfather being offered to the Hall. I think the first Easter show(Cavalcade second run) had a Good Friday tableaux. Would love to know who designed it and what year it was first presented. It was also I believe the last Easter show to have the religious icons on the choral stairs. The lighting of the original which they kept through the 70s was gorgeous. When it was revived after the stage and screen show era they must have lost the original lighting charts because the lighting was pretty much lights on lights off.
I saw every Glory of Easter I could because it was so beautiful and the only thing that held on to what was great about the theater. It’s like everyone at the Hall had it in for the place. Hepburn said, I could have done without the rotten apples at the end.'Ĭonsidering the seemingly endless acres of empty seats at every performance audiences could do without the film.Īnd what was truly astounding was that the stage show was in Black and white! An Easter show in black and white!
Not that the Music Hall had much of a choice. (This 2002 CD reissue adds a pop recording of "Love, Look Away" made by Rosemary Clooney around the time of the show's Broadway opening in 1958.Probably the dreariest Easter show ever.
The cast album still gets the nod over this re-creation, but both give a good sense of this enjoyable, if minor Rodgers & Hammerstein effort. The score is still an interesting combination of traditional Chinese elements and contemporary (for the late '50s and early '60s) pop in the Frank Sinatra/ Nelson Riddle mold. That simply means that the soundtrack album is well-sung, of course, and Rodgers was able to use more musicians to fill out his music for the movie. Baker similarly, John Dodson dubs Kam Tong, and no less a personage than Marilyn Horne sings the show's big ballad, "Love, Look Away," in place of Reiko Sato. Nancy Kwan may be given star billing, but the voice you hear singing her songs belongs to B.J.
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Rodgers & Hammerstein did not hesitate to use voice doubles for the movie actors, as they had in previous efforts. Miyoshi Umeki and Juanita Hall appeared both on Broadway and onscreen, and the song score was transferred intact, but for the deletion of one song, "Like a God." As such, the differences between the original Broadway cast album and the original motion picture soundtrack have to do with casting and orchestrations. As with most Rodgers & Hammerstein cinematic adaptations, the film conformed closely to the stage work. Flower Drum Song, that rarity among Rodgers & Hammerstein musicals, a moderate hit (otherwise, their shows were either smashes like South Pacific or flops like Me & Juliet), also became a moderately successful film in late 1961, three years after its Broadway opening it just barely ranked among the ten highest-grossing movies of 1962.
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