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42nd Street was a hugely successful Broadway stage musical, loosely based on the movie of the same name. It also contains songs from certain other Busby Berkeley 1930s movies. Produced by David Merrick, the original cast included Jerry Orbach, who played the role of musical director Julian Marsh. Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ...
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Harry Warren (December 24, 1893 - September 22, 1981) was a music composer of many different styles. ...
Al Dubin (June 10, 1891 - February 11, 1945) was a Swiss-born lyricist. ...
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David Merrick (November 27, 1911 - April 25, 2000) was an American theatrical producer and director, associated with both musicals and dramas, brilliant successes and embarrassing fl ops. ...
Gower Champion was an American theatre director, choreographer, and dancer. ...
Gower Champion was an American theatre director, choreographer, and dancer. ...
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Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ...
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Musical theater (or theatre) is a form of theatre combining music, songs, dance, and spoken dialogue. ...
42nd Street is a 1933 musical movie, set on the famous Manhattan street of that name, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. ...
Kaleidoscopic Choreography from Footlight Parade, 1933 Busby Berkeley (November 29, 1895–March 14, 1976), born William Berkeley Enos in Los Angeles, California, was a highly influential Hollywood movie director and musical choreographer. ...
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David Merrick (November 27, 1911 - April 25, 2000) was an American theatrical producer and director, associated with both musicals and dramas, brilliant successes and embarrassing fl ops. ...
Jerome Bernard Orbach (October 20, 1935 – December 28, 2004) was an American actor best known for his starring role as wisecracking New York Police Department Detective Lennie Briscoe in the Law & Order television series and for his musical theater roles. ...
Awards
42nd Street won the Tony Awards for Choreography (Gower Champion) and Best Musical. It also was nominated for Tony awards for Actor (Featured Role—Musical, Lee Roy Reams), Actress (Featured Role—Musical, Wanda Richert), Book (Musical, Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble), Costume Designer (Theoni V. Aldredge), Director (Gower Champion), and Lighting Designer (Tharon Musser). What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ...
Choreography (literally dance-writing, also known as dance composition), is the art of making structures in which movement occurs, the term composition may also refer to the navigation or connection of these movement structures. ...
Gower Champion was an American theatre director, choreographer, and dancer. ...
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Gower Champion was an American theatre director, choreographer, and dancer. ...
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In London, 42nd Street won the Evening Standard Award for Best Musical in 1984. London (pronounced ) is the capital city of the United Kingdom and the largest city of England (strangely, England has no constitutional existence within the United Kingdom, and therefore cannot be said to have a capital). ...
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2001 Revival 42nd Street was revived in 2001, at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts (which, in a slight marketing gimmick, is actually on 42nd Street in New York City, unlike the Winter Garden on Broadway at 50th). The revival was produced by Joop van den Ende. In the original cast, Michael Cumpsty played the Julian Marsh role, and Christine Ebersole played Dorothy Brock. This revival closed on January 2, 2005 after playing 31 previews, 1524 regular performances, and one Actors' Fund performance. This article should be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ...
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For the film of this name, see 42nd Street (film). ...
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The revival won Tonys for best Actress in a Musical (Christine Ebersole) and best Musical Revival. It also was nominated for the awards for Actress (Featured Role—Musical, two nominations, (Kate Levering and Mary Testa), Choreographer (Randy Skinner), Set Designer (Douglas W. Schmidt), Costume Designer (Roger Kirk), Director (Musical, Mark Bramble), and Lighting Designer (Paul Gallo). What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ...
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Plot Set in 1933, 42nd Street opens at the chorus audition for a new Broadway show, "Pretty Lady." This is the show that director Julian Marsh hopes will put him back on top after the devastation of the Great Depression. The audition is just about finished when Peggy Sawyer arrives, valise in hand, fresh off the bus from Allentown, Pennsylvania. Billy Lawlor, already cast in "Pretty Lady" as one of the leading "juvenile" actors, has been observing the audition and notices Peggy right away. Before long he's serenading Peggy with "Young & Healthy" in his attempts to charm her into a date. He informs Peggy that she's missed the audition but he can help her bypass that process. He convinces Peggy to "Go to it, kid," and sing her "first notes on Broadway" right there and then. This unorthodox behavior is quickly quashed by the show's choreographer, Andy Lee, who has no time for Billy's latest conquest. "Beat it, toots," he tells her. Embarrassed and flustered Peggy rushes off only to slam right into Julian Marsh himself. Peggy exits even more mortified than before. The Great Depression was an economic downturn which started in 1929 and lasted through most of the 1930s. ...
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We next meet Dorothy Brock who is indignant at being asked to actually audition for a role. After being assured that Julian just wants to make sure the keys are good for her voice, Dorothy sings "Shadow Waltz," which Julian admits is "Not bad, Ms. Brock." The main reason for her casting, though, is that her boyfriend, the very wealthy Abner Dillon, is the show's bankroll. Although Julian thinks the prima-donna Brock is past her prime, his writers Burt and Maggie...and Abner...insist she be the star.
Outside of the theatre, Maggie and three "experienced" chorus girls - Anytime Annie, Phyllis and Lorraine - take pity on the still recovering Peggy and invite her along for lunch where they explain that "to get a job in a Broadway chorus, Go Into Your Dance." Andy Lee happens by and is drawn into the girls' spontaneous song and dance. Before long, Julian Marsh himself is standing by witnessing Peggy's fancy footwork and decides there might just be room for one more chorus girl after all.
At a pre-production party Julian learns that Dorothy is seeing an old boyfriend, Pat Denning, behind Abner's back. Knowing this could destroy the show's funding should Abner find out, he decides to put an end to the affair. One phone call to an unsavory acquaintance and Pat Denning is visited by a couple of thugs who convince him to break it off with Dorothy. Soon, everyone is "Gettin' Out of Town" as the cast of "Pretty Lady" heads to its out-of-town try-out in Philadelphia.
On opening night, Peggy accidentally trips and crashes into Dorothy Brock knocking her to the stage. Julian fires Peggy on the spot as the curtain falls on Act One.
At the top of Act Two, we learn that Dorothy's ankle is broken and she will not be able to go on. The show will close before it ever really opened. Now out of work, the chorus kids try to convince themselves that "There's a Sunny Side to Every Situation." While consoling each other they hit upon the idea that Peggy could take over Brock's role. They find Julian Marsh and argue that Peggy's a fresh young face who can sing and "dance circles around Brock." Julian decides it's worth a shot and rushes off to the train station to catch Peggy before she can leave.
At Philadelphia's Broad Street Station, Julian apologizes to Peggy and asks her to stay...and star in "Pretty Lady." But Peggy's had enough of show business and wants to go back home to Allentown. Dumbfounded Julian asks, "Allentown? I'm offering you the chance to star in the biggest musical this town has seen in twenty years and you say, Allentown?!" The only way to convince her is to paint a picture of the glamorous life she's yet to experience: "Come on along and listen to the lullaby of Broadway...." And after Billy, Burt, Maggie, Abner and the rest of the cast join in the serenade, Peggy decides to stay.
Forced to learn the part in two days, Peggy is on the verge of a nervous breakdown when she has an unexpected visit from Dorothy Brock. Dorothy has been watching the rehearsals and admits she wanted to hate Peggy but she can't, "Because you're good," she says, "maybe even better than I would have been." She even offers a little friendly advice on how to perform the song "About a Quarter to Nine."
The show is about to start when Julian stops by for a last minute pep talk in which he utters the now iconic line, "You're going out there a kid, but you've got to come back a star!" The show is a huge success sure to catapult Peggy into stardom. And even though she's invited, and surely expected, at the official opening night party, Peggy decides to go instead to the "kids' party" with the chorus. And Julian Marsh is left alone on stage with only a single ghost light casting his huge shadow on the back wall. He quietly begins to sing, "Come and meet those dancing feet on the avenue I'm taking you to...Forty-Second Street."
The lyrics sung by Marsh to Sawyer, from the song "The Lullaby of Broadway," have become among the best recognized musical lyrics in Broadway history.
History Gower Champion's last show (he passed away opening night on Broadway, August 25, 1980). Previewed during July 1980 at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC to mixed reviews, resulting in some tuning before the New York premiere. The revival omits at least one feature number ("I Know Now").
List of songs All music is by Harry Warren and most lyrics are by Al Dubin. Harry Warren (December 24, 1893 - September 22, 1981) was a music composer of many different styles. ...
Al Dubin (June 10, 1891 - February 11, 1945) was a Swiss-born lyricist. ...
- Overture
- Audition
- Young And Healthy (from the original movie)
- Shadow Waltz (from the 1933 Gold Diggers of 1933 movie)
- Go Into Your Dance (from the 1935 movie Go Into Your Dance , not a Busby Berkeley feature, but still a Warner Bros production with songs by the same authors)
- You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me (from the original movie)
- Getting Out Of Town (apparently never appeared in a movie)
- Dames (from the 1934 movie Dames )
- Keep Young And Beautiful (from the 1933 movie Roman Scandals )
- Dames (continued)
- I Only Have Eyes For You (from Dames)
- I Know Now (from the 1937 film The Singing Marine) - omitted from the revival as well as the original cast recording
- We're In The Money (from the Gold Diggers of 1933)
- Act One Finale
- Entr'Acte
- There's a Sunny Side To Every Situation (from the 1938 movie Hard to Get, again not a Busby Berkeley feature, but still a Warner Bros production with music by the same composer)
- Lullaby Of Broadway (from the 1935 movie Gold Diggers of 1935)
- About A Quarter To Nine (from Go Into Your Dance)
- Shuffle Off To Buffalo (from the original movie)
- 42nd Street
- 42nd Street (Reprise)
- Finale Ultimo
The It Must Be June and possibly Pretty Lady songs from the movie are not featured. 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Gold Diggers of 1933 is an American musical film directed by Mervyn LeRoy with choreography by Busby Berkeley. ...
1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Youre Getting to Be a Habit with Me is a popular song. ...
1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
A statue of an armoured knight of the Middle Ages For the chess piece, see knight (chess). ...
Roman Scandals Roman Scandals is a 1933 film starring Eddie Cantor, Ruth Etting, and Gloria Stuart. ...
1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Lullaby of Broadway can refer to: Lullaby of Broadway, a popular song woth music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Al Dubin, published in 1935. ...
Gold Diggers of 1935 was a Hollywood movie musical released on March 15, 1935. ...
See also For the film of this name, see 42nd Street (film). ...
42nd Street is a 1933 musical movie, set on the famous Manhattan street of that name, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. ...
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