SONGS
& SINGERS RETURNS WITH RODGERS & HART
American
Classics presents the second season of their popular new series Songs
& Singers with "You Took Advantage - Songs of Rodgers & Hart," following
up on their presentation of the early Rodgers & Hart show Peggy-Ann
last November. There is a single performance, at the PICKMAN CONCERT
HALL of the Longy School of Music, (27 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA
- 617-254-1125), on Sunday March 21st at 3:00 pm. Tickets: $20; ($15
students/seniors). Tickets can also be purchased on-line at http://www.benandbrad.com/amclass.html.
Songs & Singers,
based on the popular series Lyrics & Lyricists in New York and Singers
& Songwriters in California, was created by American Classics in 2003.
You Took Advantage continues the Songs & Singers mission to bring
some of the finest local singers to the series, this time presenting
Bobbi Carrey (a 2003 Fellow of the Yale Cabaret Conference), Eric
Bronner (also a 2003 Yale Cabaret Conference Fellow and an American
Classics regular), song duo Benjamin Sears & Bradford Conner. Guest
performers are Bob Jolly (also an American Classics regular), Mary
Ann Lanier and Margaret Ulmer.
Featured
songs are Manhattan and the Opening Chorusfrom the 1925 Garrick Gaities;
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered(Pal Joey, 1940) The Lady is a Tramp,
I Wish I Were in Love Again, and My Funny Valentine (all from Babes
in Arms, 1937); I Married an Angel (I Married an Angel, 1938); The
Girl Friend (The Girl Friend, 1926); an early rarity I'd Like to Poison
Ivy (The Melody Man, 1924) You Took Advantage of Me (Present Arms);
and a group from I'd Rather Be Right (1937) including Have You Met
Miss Jones?. The program also features songs from the little-known
film Mississippi (1935, the only score Rodgers & Hart wrote for Bing
Crosby), including the hit It's Easy to Remember; and a medley of
songs from the 1934 Maurice Chevalier/Jeanette MacDonald film The
Merry Widow, for which Lorenz Hart provided the English lyrics.
Founded in
1996, American Classics has become an important part of the Boston
musical and theatrical scene. In 2000, American Classics began their
important Musicals in Concert series with performances of Irving Berlin's
first show Watch Your Step(1914). In 2001, American Classics gave
the first revival of the Dietz & Schwartz classic revue, The Band
Wagon, which was given a special IRNE (Independent Reviewers of New
England) Award. American Classics merged with Theatre in Process in
2002 to better fulfill each organization's goals.
In November,
2002, American Classics revived Irving Berlin's second Broadway show,
Stop! Look! Listen! This past November, American Classics gave a rare
revival of the early Rodgers & Hart musical, Peggy-Ann.
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