Read Enchanted Evenings:The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber Online
Authors: Geoffrey Block
Fancy Free
(Bernstein) [ballet], 281, 282
Fanfare for the Inauguration of John F. Kennedy
(Bernstein), W118n34
Fantasia
[film], 156, W125n25
“Fascinating Rhythm” (G. and I. Gershwin), 190
Faust
(Gounod), 397
Faye, Frances, 59
Feather, Leonard, W89n70
Feminism, 229–32
Ferber, Edna, 22, 34, 39
Fetter, Ted, 164
Feuer (Cy) and Martin (Ernest), 235, 237
Fidelio
(Beethoven) [opera], 350
Fiddler on the Roof
(Bock and Harnick), xix, 14, 16, 277, 308, 317, 324, 347
Fields, Dorothy,
5
, 39
Fifty Million Frenchmen
(Porter), 40, 189
Film adaptations of Broadway musicals, 153–91, 309–32, 398–402
Finales (
Kiss Me, Kate
),
224
, 225
The Firebrand of Florence
(Weill and I. Gershwin), 140, 143, 152
First Symphony (Mahler), 28
“Finishing the Hat” (Sondheim), 369,
370
, 374–75
Finn, William, xxvi
Fiorello!
(Bock and Harnick), 47, 233, 347
“First Midnight” (Sondheim), 373
Fitzgerald, Ella, 59
Flaherty (Stephen) and Ahrens (Lynn), xxvi
Die Fledermaus
(Strauss Jr.), 36, 319
“Flow My Tears” (Dowland), 258
Flower Drum Song
(Rodgers and Hammerstein), 176, 331, W107n34
“The Flower Garden of My Heart” (Rodgers and Hart), 104, 109
Follies
(Sondheim), xx, 7, 336, 337, 338, 348, 366, 373–78, 379, 382, 386, 387
Discography and Filmography (W13–14)
Appendix R (W63–65)
Notes (W126n31, W131n4)
Follow the Fleet
[film], 156
“Follow the Fold” (Loesser), 241, 244,
245
Fontaine, Joan, 190
“Foolish Heart” (Weill and Nash), 147, 187, 188
Footlight Parade
[film], 156
Forget Paris
[film], 392
Forte, Allen, W94n58
“Forty Minutes for Lunch” (Weill), 147
42nd Street
[revival] (Warren, Dubin, Stewart, and Bramble), xxvii
42nd Street
[film], 156
Fosse, Bob, 103, 316, 318, W100n55
Four Saints in Three Acts
(Thomson and Stein) [opera], 62, W77n19
Four Weddings and a Funeral
[film], 327
Franck, César, 94
Freed, Arthur, 155, 189
Freedley, Vinton, 43, W86n5
Freedley (Vinton) and Aarons (Alex), 42, 60
“The Freedom of the Press” (Blitzstein), 117, 121–24 (
122–23
)
Der Freischütz
(Weber) [opera], 350
Freud, Sigmund, 85
“Friendship” (Porter), 40, 46, 215, W85n43
Friml, Rudolf, 4, W77n20
From Here to Eternity
[film], 322
“From This Moment On” (Porter), 318
Frye, Northrop, 16
“Fugue for Tinhorns” (Loesser), 241–44,
243–44
, 321
“Funiculi, Funiculà” (Denza and Turco), 223, 254
Funke, Lewis, 46–47
Funny Face
(G. and I. Gershwin), 60
Funny Face
[film], 154, 158
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
(Sondheim), 335, 337, 338, 342, 347, 348, 360
Furth, George, 346
“Gallivantin’ Aroun’” (Kern and Hammerstein), 159, 162, W80n37
Gänzl, Kurt, and Andrew Lamb, W99n23, W99n24
Gardner, Ava, 187, 188
Garland, Judy, 189
Garland, Robert, 21, 198
The Garrick Gaieties
(Rodgers and Hart), 83, 195
Garson, Edith, 66, 72
Gates, Henry Louis Jr., 72
Gay Divorce
(Porter), 40, 156, 189
The Gay Divorcée
[film], 154, 156, 189
Gaxton, William, 43, 44, 46, 164
“Gee, Officer Krupke” (Bernstein and Sondheim), 286, 287, 288, 290, 329
Geer, Will, 185
Genaro, Peter, xxv
George M!
[Cohan], 4
George White Scandals of 1922
, 59
“Geraniums in the Winder” (Rodgers and Hammerstein), 311
Gerard, Jeremy, W80n39
Gershe, Leonard, 190
Gershwin, George, xii,
5
, 6, 13, 23, 42, 48, 58–82, 111, 115, 136, 137, 155, 166–76, 180, 195, 243, 281
Gershwin, Ira,
5
, 82, 136, 137, 138, 139, 152, 168, 171, W88n54
Gershwin, Leonore, 168, 171, 173
The Gershwins (George and Ira), 14, 58–82 (
60
), 158, 169–76, 189–90, 215, 263
Gestus
, 141–142
“Get Me to the Church on Time” (Lerner and Loewe),
275
, W115n50
Geva, Tamara,
86
Gibbs, Wolcott, 101
Giddins, Gary, W89n70, W102n13
Gigi
(Lerner and Loewe) [film], 265, 277, 278, 324
Gilbert (William Schwenck) and Sullivan (Arthur Seymour), xii, 4, 349, 385
Gilbert, Steven E., W94n58
Girl Crazy
(G. and I. Gershwin), xiii, 60, 189, 335
The Girl from Utah
(Kern et al.), 22
The Girls Upstairs
(early version of
Follies
), 373, 374, W129n74
“Glad to Be Unhappy” (Rodgers and Hart), 88
“A Glamorous Life” (Sondheim), W128n65
Glamour Dream (Weill), 144, 145, 146, 186
Gleason, Johanna, 387
Gloria’s Romance
[film], W80n44
Goetschius, Percy, 84, 105–6
“God Save the King,” 391
“God, That’s Good!” 363
Gold
(Sondheim).
See
Road Show
Gold Diggers of 1933
[film], 156
Goldberg, Isaac, 66, 72
Golden Boy
[film], 172
Goldbeck, Eva, 183
Goldberg, Whoopi, 338
Goldman, James, 346, 374, 376–77, 378, W129n87, W130n93
Goldwyn, Samuel, xxiii, 155, 168, 169–70, 171, 172, 247, 310, 319–20, 322, 324
The Goldwyn Follies
(G. and I. Gershwin) [film], 82
“Good-bye, Ma Lady Love” (Howard), 24
“Goodbye, Little Dream, Goodbye” (Porter), 46, W85n32
Good News!
(DeSylva, Brown, and Henderson), 186
“Goodnight Sweetheart” (Noble, Campbell, and Connelly), W91n29
“Good Thing Going” (Sondheim), 380
Gordon, Eric A., 187, W94n7, W95n17, W96n31
“Gossip Sequence” (Sondheim), 368
Die Götterdämmerung
(Wagner) [opera], 300
Gottfried, Martin, 379, W73n4
Gottlieb, Jack, 301, W122n78
Grable, Betty, 156, 321
Gradenwitz, Peter, 301, W123n78
Grant, Cary, 316, 324
Grant, Hugh, 327
Grant, Mark, 391, W74n10, W132n21, W133n46
Grayson, Kathryn,
314, 315
, 318
“A Great Big Town” (Rodgers and Hart), 109, 178
“The Greatest Show on Earth” (Weill and I. Gershwin), 140
“Great Fugue” from the String Quartet, op. 135 (Beethoven), W122n73
Great Lady
(Loewe), 262, 263
The Great Ziegfeld
[film], 156
Green, Jesse, 363, W128n59
Green, Paul, 136
Green, Stanley, W73n4, W81n54, W90n4, W110n6
Greenfield, Peter, W110n33
“Green Finch and Linnet Bird” (Sondheim), 362
Green Grow the Lilacs
(Riggs), 109, W83n70
The Green Pastures
(Johnson), 70
Greenwich Village Follies
(Porter et al.), 42
Greenwillow
(Loesser), 259
Greer, Germaine, 230
Greer, Jo Ann, 179
Grieg, Edvard, 377, 378, W130n92
Grisham, John, 398
Grist, Reri, 294
“Grosse Fuge.”
See
“Great Fugue”
Groves, George R., 324
Gruenberg, Louis, W85n2
Guettel, Adam, xxvi
Gussow, Mel, 282
Guys and Dolls
(Loesser), xii, xix, xxii, 11, 12, 13, 14, 54, 89, 109, 147, 155, 231, 233, 234, 235, 235–47 (
242
), 248–49, 251, 252, 280
Synopsis (W3–4)
Discography and Filmography (W14–15)
Appendix A (W27)
Appendix N (W56–57)
Notes (W107n1)
Guys and Dolls
[film], xxiv, 155, 247, 310, 319–23 (
319
), 324
“Guys and Dolls” (Loesser), 321
Gypsy
(Styne and Sondheim), 14, 16, 233, 308, 335, 338, 347, 360
“The Gypsy in Me” (Porter), 50,
55
, 218
H. M. S. Pinafore
(Gilbert and Sullivan), 4
Hairspray
(Shaiman and Wittman), xxvii, 310
Hall, Juanita, 169
Hallelujah, I’m a Bum
(Rodgers and Hart) [film], 212
Hambitzer, Charles, 59
Hamlisch, Marvin, xxvi, xxvii Hamm, Charles, xxi, 7, 65, 68, 69, 82, W73n6, W76n13
Hammerstein, James, 338
Hammerstein, Oscar, 2nd, xxiv, 5, 14, 19–39, 48, 70, 84, 100, 110, 136, 157, 159–63, 338–42, 343, 344, 346, 366, 382, W114n24.
See also
Rodgers (Richard) and Hammerstein (Oscar)
Hammond, Percy, 20
Handel, George Frideric, 142, 389, 393, W100n47
Haney, Carol, 316, 318
Hangover Square
(Herrmann) [film], 353–54, W127n48
Hannibal
(Lloyd Webber) [
Phantom
opera], 397, 399, 408
Hansberry, Lorraine, 71
Hans Christian Andersen
(Loesser) [film], 152, 244, 247, 320
“Happily Ever After” (Sondheim), 378, W130n95
Happy Dust theme (Gershwin),
77
, 78
Happy End
(Brecht and Weill), 136, 140, 141, 147
“Happy Hunting Horn” (Rodgers and Hart), 104, 107, 110, 180