Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 1940 Musicals, 1940 Plays, Pal Joey, Life of Galileo, Cabin in the Sky, Everybody Comes to Rick's, the Man Who Had All the Luck, Panama Hattie, My Sister Eileen, Two for the Show, Louisiana Purchase, Higher and Higher, the Corn Is Green, John Henry, Keep Off the Grass, Journey to Jerusalem, Jupiter Laughs, There Shall Be No Night, the Golden Years. Excerpt: Cabin in the Sky Cabin in the Sky is an American musical with music by Vernon Duke , lyrics by John La Touche , and a musical book by Lynn Root. The musical premiered on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on October 25, 1940. It closed on March 8, 1941 after a total of 156 performances. Directed by Albert Lewis and staged by George Balanchine , the production starred Ethel Waters as Petunia Jackson, Dooley Wilson as "Little Joe" Jackson, Katherine Dunham as Georgia Brown, Rex Ingram as Lucifer Junior , and Todd Duncan as The Lawd's General.A motion picture based on the musical was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and released in 1943. The film version of Cabin in the Sky also starred Waters as Petunia and Ingram as Lucifer Junior. Eddie "Rochester" Anderson of Jack Benny fame took over the role of Little Joe, Kenneth Lee Spencer portrayed The General, and Lena Horne co-starred as the temptress Georgia Brown in her first and only leading role in an MGM musical. Louis Armstrong was also featured in the film as one of Lucifer Junior's minions, and Duke Ellington and his Orchestra have a showcase musical number in the film.Overview and history Cabin in the Sky tells a version of the Faust legend in which Little Joe, a man killed over gambling debts, is given six months to redeem his soul and become worthy of entering Heaven otherwise his soul will be condemned to Hell .Produced by Arthur Freed and directed by Vincente Minnell...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with 1940 in Theatre: 1940 Musicals, 1940 Plays, Pal Joey, Life of Galileo, Cabin in the Sky, Everybody Comes to Rick's. To get started finding 1940 in Theatre: 1940 Musicals, 1940 Plays, Pal Joey, Life of Galileo, Cabin in the Sky, Everybody Comes to Rick's, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
68
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
115599230X
1940 in Theatre: 1940 Musicals, 1940 Plays, Pal Joey, Life of Galileo, Cabin in the Sky, Everybody Comes to Rick's
Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 1940 Musicals, 1940 Plays, Pal Joey, Life of Galileo, Cabin in the Sky, Everybody Comes to Rick's, the Man Who Had All the Luck, Panama Hattie, My Sister Eileen, Two for the Show, Louisiana Purchase, Higher and Higher, the Corn Is Green, John Henry, Keep Off the Grass, Journey to Jerusalem, Jupiter Laughs, There Shall Be No Night, the Golden Years. Excerpt: Cabin in the Sky Cabin in the Sky is an American musical with music by Vernon Duke , lyrics by John La Touche , and a musical book by Lynn Root. The musical premiered on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on October 25, 1940. It closed on March 8, 1941 after a total of 156 performances. Directed by Albert Lewis and staged by George Balanchine , the production starred Ethel Waters as Petunia Jackson, Dooley Wilson as "Little Joe" Jackson, Katherine Dunham as Georgia Brown, Rex Ingram as Lucifer Junior , and Todd Duncan as The Lawd's General.A motion picture based on the musical was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and released in 1943. The film version of Cabin in the Sky also starred Waters as Petunia and Ingram as Lucifer Junior. Eddie "Rochester" Anderson of Jack Benny fame took over the role of Little Joe, Kenneth Lee Spencer portrayed The General, and Lena Horne co-starred as the temptress Georgia Brown in her first and only leading role in an MGM musical. Louis Armstrong was also featured in the film as one of Lucifer Junior's minions, and Duke Ellington and his Orchestra have a showcase musical number in the film.Overview and history Cabin in the Sky tells a version of the Faust legend in which Little Joe, a man killed over gambling debts, is given six months to redeem his soul and become worthy of entering Heaven otherwise his soul will be condemned to Hell .Produced by Arthur Freed and directed by Vincente Minnell...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with 1940 in Theatre: 1940 Musicals, 1940 Plays, Pal Joey, Life of Galileo, Cabin in the Sky, Everybody Comes to Rick's. To get started finding 1940 in Theatre: 1940 Musicals, 1940 Plays, Pal Joey, Life of Galileo, Cabin in the Sky, Everybody Comes to Rick's, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.