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Wildcat is a musical with a book by N. Richard Nash, lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, and music by Cy Coleman. The original production opened on Broadway in 1960, starring a 49-year-old Lucille Ball in her only Broadway show. The show introduced the song "Hey, Look Me Over", which was subsequently performed as a cover version by several musicians.
In 1957 on the television show I Love Lucy (Season 6, episode 22 titled "Lucy’s Night In Town"), the Ricardos and Mertzes travel to New York City from their new country home in Connecticut to attend a sold-out evening performance of The Most Happy Fella. During dinner they discover Lucy had mistakenly purchased tickets for the matinee.
This is a list of musicals, including Broadway musicals, West End musicals, and musicals that premiered in other places, as well as film musicals, whose titles fall into the M–Z alphabetic range. (See also List of notable musical theatre productions , List of operettas , List of Bollywood films , List of rock musicals .)
Elise McCann (born 28 July 1984) is an Australian actress and musical theatre performer most well known for originating the role of Miss Honey in the Australian production of Matilda the Musical [2] and as Lucille Ball in Everybody Loves Lucy.
Irene is a musical with a book by James Montgomery, lyrics by Joseph McCarthy, and music by Harry Tierney.Based on Montgomery's play Irene O'Dare, it is set in New York City's Upper West Side and focuses on immigrant shop assistant Irene O'Dare, who is introduced to Long Island's high society when she is hired to tune a piano for a society gentleman.
The musical debuted as a staged reading at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, in the summer of 1989, produced by Capital Repertory Theatre. [2] R.J. Cutler directed the summer workshop, and went on to direct the world premiere at the Wells Theatre, Norfolk, Virginia, in a Virginia Stage Company production, running from November 28 to December 17, 1989. [3]
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A brief nude scene in which Dracula seduces Lucy Westenra (played by Kelli O'Hara) received much publicity, [2] as did the show's numerous special effects. Despite that, the show ran for only 154 performances, and received mainly negative reviews. [3] The show was heavily revised and later had engagements in Europe, where it proved to be a hit. [4]