Leonard Bernstein and his accomplices Betty Comden and Adolph Green take obvious delight in paying tribute to the screwball 1930s in this story of two mismatched sisters in the Big Apple. Rosalind Russell (reprising her role as Ruth Sherwood in this 1958 television broadcast) adheres to a simple credo: if you can't sing it, sell it! And sell it she does: "One Hundred Easy Ways" is still relatively ...
Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden and Adolph Green's 1953 collaboration in Wonderful Town doesn't lack for recordings, including two good studio casts from 1998 and 1999. Yet the uncommonly funny show hadn't received a proper Broadway revival until this 2003 production. As Ruth Sherwood, a role created by Rosalind Russell, Donna Murphy gives a glorious five-star star performance, and nowhere ...
Lions and tigers and bears, the yellow brick road, gamboling midgets, warnings scrawled high above by a skywriting witch: No movie ever imprinted itself on young imaginations or endured in adult memory more than MGM's classic 1939 musical, and no movie score ever hooked as forcefully into our collective cultural memory. This exemplary soundtrack finally treats this deserved classic to a ...