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"42nd Street" is the title song from the 1933 Warner Bros. backstage musical film 42nd Street, with music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Al Dubin. The song was published in 1932 . It is the finale of the film, where it was sung by Ruby Keeler , Dick Powell and ensemble.
The song "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" has been added to the score of the stage musical 42nd Street for its 2017 West End run being performed by Sheena Easton in the character of Dorothy Brock: the Daily Express opined that "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" seemed "out of place" in 42nd Street while stating that Easton sang the song "splendidly". [3]
42nd Street is a 1933 American pre-Code musical film directed by Lloyd Bacon, with songs by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics). The film's numbers were staged and choreographed by Busby Berkeley. It stars an ensemble cast of Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell and Ginger Rogers.
"Shuffle Off to Buffalo" is a song written by Al Dubin and Harry Warren and introduced in the 1933 musical film 42nd Street, in which Ruby Keeler and Clarence Nordstrom sang and danced to it. Ginger Rogers, Una Merkel, and the Chorus [1] also performed it in the film.
In June 1980, the musical premiered in out-of-town tryouts at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which is located in Washington, D.C. [4] The musical opened on Broadway on August 25, 1980, at the Winter Garden Theatre, [5] and then moved to the Majestic and finally to the St. James, closing on January 8, 1989, after 3,486 performances and 6 previews.
This boisterous, creative production of the classic backstage musical wraps up the summer season at Matunuck in high style.
In the movie, it is sung by the leading lady Dorothy Brock, played by Bebe Daniels. [1] The song was recorded by Guy Lombardo with Bing Crosby on vocals on January 12, 1933 [5] and reached #1 in the charts. [6] Crosby also included the song in the short film Please (1933). Another hit recording of the song in 1933 was by Fred Waring and His ...
The score incorporated songs by Warren and Dubin from various movie musicals, including 42nd Street, Dames, Go Into Your Dance, Gold Diggers of 1933, and Gold Diggers of 1935. [23] A theatre in Gravesend, Brooklyn, New York, the Harry Warren Theatre, was named for Warren in 1982. [24] [25]