Weill’s music was heard in three extended dream sequences actually three small operettas integrated into a straight play, which musically depicted an ambitious woman finally finding herself. Kaufman and turned Hart into the major player he should always have been. Lady in the Dark was a grateful tribute from Hart to Hart’s psychoanalyst, who ended Hart’s being the and attached to George S. The libretto was written by Moss Hart, author of Act One, one of the most honest autobiographies even penned. Lyrics came from the imagination and wit of Ira Gershwin, George’s baby bro. Kurt Weill, not a mere tunesmith, but a genuine composer with at least one perfectly discordant masterpiece, Threepenny Opera, already among his oeuvre, supplied the score. Yippee! KT Sullivan as Fashion Editor Liza Elliott, the Lady in the Dark, made one of the most elegant and sophisticated musicals roles ever written totally her own. Sidney Myer, usually the comedic peak of each RRB, displayed his tender side singing the lone hit from the score, “My Cup Runneth Over” in a most loving way. Tanya was remarkable as “Flaming Agnes,” getting imaginary revenge after Ricky reveals his infidelity with a younger woman. Watching Ricky Ritzel and Tanya Moberly as the “happy couple” made me feel right at home. ![]() The tale of a 50-year marriage between Michael and Agnes begins with them madly in love, and stays with them as they work their way up to mostly mad. Walter Kerr found their performances great but described the work as light and cliched, Still, I Do, I Do, ran for a year and a half. Preston won his second Tony playing husband Michael. Next, Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones turned a hit play about a fourposter bed into I Do, I Do, a budget musical which appealed to cheapskate producer David Merrick because it had minimal sets and costumes and Gower Champion choreographing a two Broadway Legend cast of Mary Martin and Robert Preston. Seussical is now raking in royalties from constant school and regional theaters performances. But, to quote my sainted Aunt Fanny, if you live long enough, you live to see everything. Widely panned, it closed the following year, noteworthy for its enormous losses. Seussical endured endless modifications and replacements. Seuss and a very serviceable score by Flaherty and Ahrens. The plot included every creature ever conceived by Dr. I celebrated Leap Year in person with Ricky et al on February 28 when his Broadway opened with Seussical, starring Horton, a compassionate elephant who discovers a microscopic speck of dust that’s actually a planet inhabited by Whos, and places it and them on a clover where he can guard them. In the interim, RRB has won four consecutive MAC Awards for Best Recurring Musical Series, the 2019 Bistro Award for Outstanding Musical Series and has been nominated for its fifth MAC in 2020.Įvery Ricky Ritzel’s Broadway is a new and unique adventure, in which Ricky selects three Broadway musicals, a mix of boffo, so-so and grosso, but regardless of how critics mangled each one on opening night, Ricky’s More than Ready for Prime Time Players make each melody sound like it belongs in the top third of the Broadway musical bell-shaped curve. ![]() ![]() Ricky’s Broadway series have been winning ecstatic fans since Jwhen Madame Sidney Myer’s Dolly Levi stepped on stage in a wig and feathers to tumultuous applause. ![]() Monsieur Rick, Don’t Tell Mama, but I’ve been away from youse a long time! Only two months but long enough to realize I missed Ricky Ritzel and his More Than Ready for Prime Time Players high kick their way through one of the best Ricky Ritzel Broadways on record.
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