Gwen Verdon kicked up her heels as Claudine in this classic Cole Porter musical named for a dance
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Can-Can | IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information  Apr 30, 1981 ... Closing Date: May 03, 1981. Total Previews: 16. Total Performances: 5. Category: Musical, Comedy, Revival, Broadway. Setting: Paris, 1893.
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jeopardy/1126_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS | Arabic name of the area on the shore of the Dead Sea ... MUSICALS | Gwen Verdon kicked up her heels as Claudine in this classic Cole Porter ... Club sing "Take Back Your Mink" in Act II of this musical | Guys And Dolls ... BEFORE & AFTER | Dick Clark's dance show featuring U.S. citizens who...
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Can-Can (musical) - Wikipedia  Can-Can is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, and a book by Abe Burrows. The story concerns the showgirls of the Montmartre dance halls during the ... Gwen Verdon, in only her second Broadway role, and choreographer Michael ... Peter Cookson as the judge, Gwen Verdon as Claudine, Dania Krupska, Phil...
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Gwen Verdon - Wikipedia  Gwyneth Evelyn Gwen Verdon (January 13, 1925  October 18, 2000) was an American ... With flaming red hair and a quaver in her voice, Verdon was a critically ... She went on to study multiple dance forms, ranging from tap, jazz, ballroom ... cast her as the second female lead in Cole Porter's musical Can-Can (1953),...
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Gwen Verdon, Redhead Who High-Kicked Her Way to Stardom ...  Oct 19, 2000 ... In 1953 she auditioned for the Cole Porter musical ''Can-Can,'' and ... humor'' of her dancing and called her ''the practical star of the show. ... ''Damn Yankees'' racked up over a thousand performances and brought Ms. Verdon her ... The musical had its unlikely roots in Fellini's film classic ''Nights of Cabiria...
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Movie Review - - John Barrymore, Billie Burke and Katharine ...  An intelligent, restrained and often stirring picture has been produced from Clemence Dane's play "A Bill of Divorcement." In this eminently satisfactory and...
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Cole Porter - Wikipedia  Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891  October 15, 1964) was an American composer and .... He also wrote musical comedy scores for his fraternity, the Yale Dramat (the ... In 1915, Porter's first song on Broadway, "Esmeralda", appeared in the revue .... the rights to the film, re-titled The Gay Divorcee, were sold to RKO Pictures.
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Cole Porter's 10 best songs - Telegraph  Nov 21, 2014 ... Yale' did not suggest entirely the later greatness of Night and Day. ... He'd been asked to write a cowboy song for a 20th Century Fox ... cocaine', so Porter changed it to 'some like the perfume in Spain'. ... time in 1934 during a performance of the comedy Hi Diddle Diddle. ... BEGIN THE BEGUINE (1935).
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FILM; Cole Porter's Two Biopics? They're Night and Day - The New ...  Jun 20, 2004 ... IN ''Night and Day,'' the so-bad-it's-almost-good 1946 biopic starring Cary Grant as Cole Porter, one ... In ''De-Lovely,'' the new MGM biopic starring Kevin Kline as Cole ... this authentic American genius -- a take that hid Porter's homosexuality, ... When I was about 12, I saw a book of Cole Porter lyrics, and I...
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jeopardy/1912_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  POP MUSIC | In 1978 he asked, "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" & also recorded "I Was .... MURDER & MUSICALS | Bebe Neuwirth won a 1997 Tony for playing a homicidal hussy named Velma in this musical revival | "Chicago". right: Bill. Wrong:.
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Chicago (2002) - Trivia - IMDb  Later he admitted that he regretted declining the role after seeing the movie. ... Richards approached her for the role of Roxie Hart but Zeta-Jones, though not familiar ... That character was played by long-time Broadway actress Chita Rivera who ..... (now the Richard Rodgers Theatre) on June 3, 1975 starring Gwen Verdon,...
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Lauren Bacall, Betty Comden, Adoph Green, Charles Strouse, Lee ...  Editorial Reviews. Lauren Bacall's Broadway debut, now on CD for the first time! Available ... Applause: Original 1970 Broadway Cast Cast Recording, Extra tracks, Original ..... And let's not forget Bonnie Franklin who blows us away with the title song ... APPLAUSE opened on Broadway starring Lauren Bacall (in her musical...
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Greatest Song and Dance Musical Movie Moments and Scenes  Film Title/Year and Brief Musical Scenes Description ... were cut and never-before-seen, such as a censored, sexy scene with Lena Horne singing ... a deleted song-and-dance between Kelly and Cyd Charisse from Brigadoon (1954), ... performed the memorable and sensual but garish number Heat Wave (pictured) and the...
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A Greasepaint Medley: On A Wonderful Day Like Today, Who Can I ...  Aug 10, 2014 ... Even big musical theatre hits didn't translate into success with ... for Cole Porter with the title song, and "You're The Top" and "I Get A Kick Out Of You" ... so today it turns up on all those "Tony Bennett Duets With [Insert Name Here]" albums. ... aware of Tony Newley or Leslie Bricusse started making, in effect,...
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Damn Yankees! (1958) - IMDb  Lullaby of Broadway ..... Lola: I took the zing out of the King of Siam. ... The big hit songs from Damn Yankees was Gwen Verdon's seduction number and dance,...
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Chicago - One of the murderesses in "The Cell Block ... - Pinterest  "Cell Block Tango" from film production of Bob Fosse's "Chicago". 2013- Mona ... to watch The Broadway musical, or most important, sing and play as a part of one! CHICAGO! ..... This ROCKS if you are SELLING IT, just as Velma is trying to sell her show to Roxie! She is honestly ..... The Fellow Ozians on. My favorite part of...
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Slaughter on Tenth Avenue - Wikipedia  Slaughter on Tenth Avenue is a ballet with music by Richard Rodgers and choreography by George Balanchine. It occurs near the end of Rodgers and Hart's 1936 Broadway musical comedy On Your Toes. ... Jazz singer Anita O'Day performed a vocal (scat) version on her Verve album Incomparable. One of The Ventures'...
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jeopardy_categorization/jtopics.txt at master  vasumv ... - GitHub  (AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE):Gwen Verdon sang the following song in the original Broadway version of this show:"Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets..." John Dos...
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I Get a Kick Out of You - Wikipedia  "I Get a Kick out of You" is a song by Cole Porter, which was first sung in the 1934 Broadway ... The lyrics were first altered shortly after being written. ... The 1974 film Blazing Saddles features the song (called "I Get No Kick from Champagne")...
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Stage 1950s !V: The Great Dames - Musicals101.com  Can Can (1953 - 892 performances) and Damn Yankees (1955 - 1,019 ... Verdon proved she was far more than a dancer in New Girl In Town (1957 - 431 ... Redhead picked up Tony Awards for best musical, actress and ... With Verdon's first four Broadway roles, she had become the first performer ever to win four Tonys...
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Gershwin Theater New York, NY  'Remember the last time an original Broadway musical made you laugh, cry and ...