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Enchanted Evenings:The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber

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by Block, Geoffrey


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  INDEX

  A Guide to the Index

  • The Index includes all names and works in the main text and selective entries for names and works that appear in the online website (Synopses, Discography and Filmography, Appendices, and Notes).

  • Titles in bold indicate the major shows and films discussed in Enchanted Evenings.

  • Titles of musicals, films, plays, operas, novels, and miscellaneous other works are placed in italics.

  • Titles of songs are placed in “quotes.”

  • Composers and authors are placed in parentheses after the title, and categories of works other than musicals are indicated in [brackets].

  • Page numbers in italics indicate musical examples.

  • Page numbers in bold indicate drawings and photographs.

  • Numbers preceded by a W indicate pages in the online website.

  “Abbondanza” (Loesser), 250, 252

  Abbott, George, xviii, xxvi, 47, 86, 87, 89, 90–91, 92, 100, 101, 104, 190, 235, 281, 396

  Adams, Franklin P., 46

  Addison, Adele, 169

  “Adelaide” (Loesser), 322, W111n21

  “Adelaide’s Lament” (Loesser), 231, 238, 246, 321, 322

  Adler (Richard) and Ross (Jerry), 14, W77n20

  Adler, Thomas, P., 336

  Adorno, Theodor, xii

  “After the Ball” (Harris), 391

  “Ah, but Underneath” (Sondheim), 377

  “Ah, Miss” (Sondheim), 359, 362

  “Ah Still Suits Me” (Kern and Hammerstein), 26, 157, 159, W80n41

  “Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life” (Herbert and Young), W98n15

  Aida (John and Rice), xxvii

  “Alabama-Song” (Brecht and Weill), 141

  Aladdin (Porter and Perelman), 152, 232

  Alda, Robert, 242

  Alexander’s Ragtime Band [film], 156

  All About Eve [film], 320

  “All I Ask of You” (Lloyd Webber and Hart), 397, 401, 403, 406–7, W133n46

  All Quiet on the Western Front [film], 165

  “All the Things You Are” (Kern and Hammerstein), 39, 344

  “All Through the Night” (Porter), 40, 44, 53, 159, 164, W85n32

  Allegro (Rodgers and Hammerstein), 136, 143, 213, 346

  All’s Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare) [play], 318

  “Alms … alms …” (Sondheim), 358, 360, 362

  Alpert, Hollis, W86n6, W123n83

  “Always True To You in My Fashion” (Porter), 223, 318

  Ameche, Don, 150

  “America” (words by S. F. Smith) [same melody as “God Save the King”], 391

  “America” (Bernstein and Sondheim), 280, 284, 295, 328, 329, 330, W118n27, W122n75

  An American in Paris [film], 190, 263, W125n25

  An American in Paris (Gershwin), 59

  “Anacreon in Heaven” [same melody as Star Spangled Banner], 391

  Anderson, Marian, 169, W87n39

  Anderson, Maxwell, 136, 152

  Andresen-Thom, Martha, 230

  Andrews, Julie, 261, 271, 278, 325, W124n18

  Androcles and the Lion (Rodgers), W107n33

  “Angel of Music” (Lloyd Webber and Hart), 403, 405

  “Angry Tony” (Loesser), 248

  Annie Get Your Gun (Berlin and Fields), 14, 216, 243, W77n21, W83n71

  “Another Op’nin’, Another Show” (Porter), 219, 221, 222, 315

  Anstey, F. [pseudonym of Thomas Anstey Guthrie], 136

  “Any Old Place with You” (Rodgers and Hart), 83

  Anyone Can Whistle (Sondheim), 308, 335–36, 337

  Anything Goes (Porter) [musical], xviii, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 40–57 (41), 86, 89, 92, 101, 103, 111, 147, 155, 215, 221, 237, 238, 245, 247, 358, 373, 378

  Synopsis (W1)

  Discography and Filmography (W11–12)

  Appendix A (W26)

  Appendix E (W42–44)

  Notes (W100n61)

  Anything Goes [1936 film], xxiii, xxiv, 51, 155, 158, 163, 163–66, 175, 191, 217, 218, 231, 317

  Anything Goes [1956 film], 159

  “Anything Goes” (Porter), xi, 53, 55–56, 57, 164, 218, W85n43

  Arden, Eve, 188

  Arlen, Harold, 5, 14, 136, 152, W77n20

  Armitage, Merle, 67

  Aronson, Boris, 346

  Around the World in Eighty Days (Porter), 215

  Arms and the Man (Shaw), 263

  Armstrong, Louis, 59

  “Art for Art’s Sake” (Blitzstein), 11, 123, 126, 127, 128, 186

  As Thousands Cheer (Berlin), 346, W84n27, W126n28

  “The Ascot Gavotte” (Lerner and Loewe), 265, 274, 326

  Asimov, Isaac, W121n52

  Aspects of Love (Lloyd Webber and Hart and Black), 386, 408, 409, W130n2

  Assassins (Sondheim), 337, 338, 366, 379, 382

  Astaire, Fred, 85, 87, 136, 156, 178, 189, 190

  Astaire (Fred and Adele), 60, 190

  Astaire (Fred) and Rogers (Ginger), 39, 156, 157

  “At the Fair” (Kern and Hammerstein), 27, 160

  Atkinson, Brooks, 20, 43–44, 46, 62–63, 86–87, 89, 101, 102, 114, 198–99, 253, 254, 259, 262, 279, W87n25

  Australia [film], 314

  Avalon Boys quartet, 164, 175

  Avenue Q (Lopez and Marx), xxvii,

  Ayers, Lemuel, 341<
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  Azaria, Hank, 181, 182

  Babbitt, Milton, 344–46, 347, W126n26, W126n30

  Babes in Arms (Rodgers and Hart), 84, 101, 180

  Babington, Bruce, and Peter William Evans, 311–12

  “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” (Loesser), 235, 244, 250

  Bach, J. S., 241, 389

  Bacchanale ballet (Weill), 136–37

  Bailey, Pearl, 169

  Balanchine, George, xxvi, 88, 190

  Balcony Scene. See “Tonight”

  “Bali Ha’i” (Rodgers and Hammerstein), 84, 108–9, W114n24

  “The Ballad of Mack the Knife” (Brecht and Weill), 142, 143

  “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd” (Sondheim), 352, 354, 355, 356, 359, 363

  Ballet Sequence (Bernstein), 305, 329, 330

  The Band Wagon (Schwartz and Dietz) [film], 87

  Banfield, Stephen, xiii-xiv, xv, xxi, xxiv, xxvii, 159, 280, 351, 352, 379, 386–88, W76n13, W122n73, W122n 77, W127n48, W130n99–100

  Bankhead, Tallulah, 49

  Barlow, Samuel, 136

  Barnes, Howard, W100n59

  Barnett, Etta Moten, 70

  Bathing at Asnières [painting] (Seurat), 365–66

  Batman films (Burton), 398

  “Be Like the Bluebird” (Porter), 53

  Bean Theme (Sondheim), 372–73 (372)

  Beaton, Cecil, 265, 323, 324, W124n16

  The Beautiful Game (Lloyd Webber and Elton), 408, 409

  Beauty and the Beast (Ashman, Menken, and Rice), xxi, xxvii

  The Beauty Prize (Kern and Wodehouse), 33

  “Been a Long Day” (Loesser), 259

  Beethoven, Ludwig, 126, 127, 128, 338, 382, W129n78

  “Being Alive” (Sondheim), W130n95

  “Begin the Beguine” (Porter), 215

  Beggar on Horseback (Kaufman and Connelly), 341

  The Beggar’s Opera (Gay) [opera], 349

  “Being Alive” (Sondheim), 377, 378–79

  Belafonte, Harry, 59, 169

  Belgrad, Doug, 327

  Bell, Michel, 27

  Bells Are Ringing (Styne, Comden and Green), 281, W116n2

  Bennett, Michael, xxvii, 346, 348, 374, 376, W129n87

  Bennett, Robert Russell, 20, 73, W80n47

  “Bench Scene” (Rodgers and Hammerstein), 199–206 (203)

  Benchley, Robert, W78n12

  “Benvenuta” (Loesser), 255, 256

  Berg, Alban, 59, 143, 254, 301

  Berg, A. Scott, 171, 319

  Bergman, Ingrid, 195

  Berlin, Irving, 5, 15, 156, 216, 217, 234, 243, 250, W77n20

  Berlioz, Hector, 355

  Berman, Pandro, W90n7

  Bernstein, Aline, W98n17

  Bernstein, Felicia, 282, W120n44

  Bernstein, Leonard, xii, xxvi, 6, 11, 15, 114, 136, 279–308 (284), 327–32, 335, 336, 342, 348, 350, 351, 365, 382, 392, W115n46, W129n82

  “Bess, You Is My Woman Now” (G. and I. Gershwin and Heyward), 59, 66, 67, 69, 75, 76, 79–80, 81

  Bess’s theme (Gershwin), 78–80, W89n81

  “The Best Years of His Life” (Weill and I. Gershwin), 140, 145

  The Best Years of Our Lives [film], 320

  “Bewitched” (Rodgers and Hart), 98, 104–7 (106), 110, 111, 179, 238

  Beymer, Richard, 328

  “Bianca” (Porter), 217, 218, 224, 226, 228, 315

  “Big D” (Loesser), 252, 253, 254, 255

  “Bill” (Kern, Wodehouse, and Hammerstein), 26, W81n52

  Bing, Rudolf, W87n39

  Björnson, Maria, 387

  Blackwell, Harolyn, 177

  Blades, Rubén, 184

  Blaine, Vivian, 321

  Blakemore, Michael, xviii

  Blitzstein, Marc, xxvi, 11, 15, 112–28 (113), 136, 144, 180–86, 284, 286, W115n46, W121n67

  Block, Geoffrey, W74n12, W76n13, W77n25, W121n63

  Bloom, Harold, 277, W76n7, W110n35

  Blore, Eric, 156

  Blossom Time (Romberg and Donnelly), 390, W131n17

  “Blow, Gabriel, Blow” (Porter), 40, 53, 55, 159, 164

  Blue Monday (Gershwin), 59

  Blues (from “The Dance at the Gym”) (Bernstein), 295, 305, W118n32

  Boccherini, Luigi, W103n29

  Bock (Jerry) and Harnick (Sheldon), xxvi

  Bogin, Abba, W112n43

  Boléro (Ravel), 104

  Bolger, Ray, 85, 86, 91, 235, 236

  Bolton, Guy, 46, 47, 50. See also Wodehouse (P. G.) and Bolton (Guy)

  Bombay Dreams (Rahman and Black), 408

  “Bon Voyage” (Porter), 44

  Bond, Christopher, 349, 352–53

  Bordman, Gerald, xiii, xix, 52, W73n4, W78n8, W80n46, W80n47, W98n21

  Bordoni, Irene, 42, 49

  Boris Gudunov (Musorgsky), 28

  Born to Dance [film], 156, 189

  Borodin, Alexander, 233

  “Boruch attah adonoi” (Jewish prayer), 77

  Boswell, John, 211

  Boublil (Alain) and Schönberg (Claude-Michel), xxi, xxvi, xxvii, 394

  Boulanger, Nadia, 116

  Bounce (Sondheim). See Road Show

  “A Bowler Hat” (Sondheim), 379

  “A Boy Like That / I Have a Love.” See “I Have a Love”

  The Boys from Syracuse (Rodgers and Hart), 47, 84, 97, 101

  The Boys in the Photograph. See The Beautiful Game

  Brando, Marlon, 319, 320–21, 325

  Brecht, Bertolt, 112, 116, 117, 120, 124, 131, 140, 141, 142, 143, 147, 183

  Breen, Joseph, 164

  Brice, Fanny, 105

  Bridge, Andrew, 387

  Brigadoon (Lerner and Loewe), 14, 263, 278

  Brightman, Sarah, 385, 395, W7

  Bristow, Eugene K., and J. Kevin Butler, 336–37

  Broadway Melody of 1940 [film], 156, 189

  Broderick, Matthew, 259

  “Brotherhood of Man” (Loesser), 245

  Brown, Anne, 175

  Brown, Gwynne Kuhner, W88n67, W102n14

  Brown, Jason Robert, xxvi

  Brown, Joe E., 158

  Brown, John Mason, 102

  “Brush Up Your Shakespeare” (Porter), 219, 225, 226, 318

  Brynner, Yul, 324

  Bubbles, John W., 71

  Buckley, Betty, W125n1

  “Buddie, Beware” (Porter), 45, 46, 50, 358

  Bullets over Broadway [film], 180

  Burleske for piano and orchestra (R. Strauss), W118n26

  Burns (George) and Allen (Gracie), 190

  Burton, Humphrey, 294, W118n29, W121n57

  Burton, Richard, 278

  Burton, Tim, xxiii, 349, 355, 360–61, 363, 364, 365, 398

  Burrows, Abe, 237–38, 252, 259, 320

  “A Bushel and a Peck” (Loesser), 322

  Busoni, Ferruccio, 136, 262

  Butler, Gerard, 399

  “Buzzard Song” (G. Gershwin and Heyward), 7, 65–69, 75, 76, 81, 170, 175

  By George (Sondheim), 340, W125n15

  By Jeeves (Lloyd Webber and Ayckbourn), 385

  By Jupiter (Rodgers and Hart), 84, 85, 109

 

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