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42nd Street Moon is a professional theatre company in San Francisco, California. [1] The company specializes in the preservation and presentation of early and lesser-known works [2] by Rodgers & Hammerstein, Rodgers & Hart, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Kurt Weill, George and Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, Kander and Ebb, Jule Styne and Comden and Green.
42nd Street is a 1980 stage musical with a book by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble, lyrics by Al Dubin and Johnny Mercer and music by Harry Warren. The 1980 Broadway production won the Tony Awards for Best Musical and Best Choreography and it became a long-running hit.
Although continuing in high-tech, Lorenson found himself unfulfilled creatively, and in the mid-2000s began to explore a return to performing. He began appearing with San Francisco's 42nd Street Moon, one of four theatre groups in the U.S. whose mission is to present staged concert revivals of 'lost' musicals from Broadway's Golden Age
In 1958, Morton Downey Jr. sang the song [19] on national television, on a set that resembled a dark street with one street light. It was covered by No Wave artist James White on his 1983 album Flaming Demonics. Marianne Faithfull covered it in her Hal Willner-produced album Strange Weather in 1987, and later on 20th Century Blues (1996).
Du Barry Was a Lady received a fully staged production in May 2014 by San Francisco's 42nd Street Moon Company starring Bruce Vilanch in the Bert Lahr role, directed and choreographed by Zack Thomas Wilde. [10] [11]
42nd Street Moon's production was staged at the Eureka Theater (215 Jackson St.) in San Francisco, which was well-received. [6] San Francisco theater critic Chad Jones wrote: "On Broadway, [Angela] Lansbury is said to be divine in the role, but 42nd Street Moon has a real secret weapon here: Megan Cavanagh...Cavanagh is hilarious and heartfelt ...
The main entrance and lobby are in the New 42nd Street Building on 42nd Street, while the auditorium is on a separate lot to the north on 43rd Street. [3] The New 42nd Street Building occupies a rectangular lot covering around 7,538 sq ft (700.3 m 2 ), with a frontage of 75 ft (23 m) on 42nd Street [ a ] and a depth of 100 ft 5 in (30.61 m).
The 42nd Street Moon theatre company, San Francisco, California concert version ran in August 2001. [5] Porchlight Music Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, presented Do Re Mi as a part of their "Porchlight Revisits" season in which they stage forgotten musicals three times per year. The production was in May 2018.