b. 4 Dec 1916, Woking, Surrey, Britain, d. 27 Sept 2003, Surrey, Britain. A leading maker of stage musicals through the 50s to the 80s, Fielding offers shown, or co-presented, a number of the Western End’s favourite displays. When he was a decade older he resisted parental pressure to try …

b. 23 Sept 1904, Providence, Rhode Isle, USA, d. 4 March 1994, Edgecomb, Maine, USA. Hall produced her initial appearance on Broadway in Three GIRLS (1930), which acquired music and lyrics mainly by Walter Kollo and Harry B. Smith. Among the music sung by Hall had been a trio with …

b. Anna Myrtle Swoyer, 10 Might 1922, Philadelphia, Pa, USA, d. 25 March 1992, Studio room City, LA, California, USA. Little in stature but with a robust stage existence and singing tone of voice, Walker made a significant tag on Broadway levels, and in addition impressed in the couple of …

b. Robert Field Rounseville, 25 March 1914, Attleboro, Massachusetts, USA, d. 6 August 1974, NEW YORK, NY, USA. After schooling as an operatic tenor, Rounseville sang in the chorus or performed small roles within a succession of Broadway productions, many of which were strikes: Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s Babes …

Richard Rodgers was the most effective composer of well-known music for the theater in the 20th century. During the period of a 60-yr career, he published the song ratings for 42 musicals staged on Broadway or in the Western End, aswell as 11 film musicals and two tv musicals (not …

b. Russell McKinley Crouse, 20 Feb 1893, Findlay, Ohio, USA, d. 3 Apr 1966, NEW YORK, NY, USA. Crouse’s initial essential Broadway musical humor function was as co-librettist for The Gang’s All Right here (1931), nonetheless it was 3 years afterwards, when manufacturer Vinton Freedley connected him with Howard Lindsay …

b. Victor Frederick Moore, 24 Feb 1876, Hammonton, NJ, USA, d. 23 July 1962, East Islip, NY, USA. Getting started in vaudeville being a comedian, Moore appreciated a fair way of measuring success for a lot more than two decades prior to making his discovery. He made several performances on …

Born in Feb 1934 in Dale, Indiana, Florence Henderson sang and danced from early years as a child, going to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in NY from age 17. She got a bit-part function in Joshua Logan’s Desire You Were Right here (1952), which brought an give to …

Frank Sinatra was arguably the main popular music physique from the 20th hundred years, his only rivals for the name getting Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, as well as the Beatles. In a specialist profession that lasted 60 years, he exhibited a remarkable capability to maintain his charm and pursue his …

b. 18 Oct 1933, Burlington, Vermont, USA, d. 21 March 1998, NY, USA. An archive and theater producer and movie director, Bagley is certainly chiefly appreciated by lovers from the musical theater for his Revisited albums. These contain ignored gems, songs constructed with the leading stage and film composers from …