Jerome Kern

...Patton to the group, a young piano man that holds his own in marvelous company with the release of New Strides. He doesn't play Jerome Kern's time-tested standard, "I'm Old Fashioned" on this set, but it could be his theme song. Patton and...

In this article: Jimmy Heath, Bill Evans, Albert "Tootie" Heath, Dream Dancing, I'm Old Fashioned, and Denny Zeitlin

...English tune, "Little Man You've Had a Busy Day," and continues with an Art Tatum-inspired arrangement of Otto Harbach and Jerome Kern's "Yesterdays." Shearing and McPartland have fun discussing their own attempts to decipher virtuoso pianist...

In this article: George Shearing, Marian McPartland, I've Got You Under My Skin, Cole Porter, Art Tatum, Lullaby of Birdland, Yesterdays, and Otto Harbach

...the world has created for them. The canvas that Schaeffer and rarely off-the-mark set designer James Kronzer have selected for Jerome Kern's timeless melodies and Hammerstein's teeming libretto and lyrics, adapted from a novel by Edna...

In this article: Show Boat, Signature Theatre, Ol' Man River, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man

...the music, for more than 1,500 songs, with more than 200 collaborators, among them composers Harold Arlen, Hoagy Carmichael and Jerome Kern. He was nominated for 18 Academy Awards and won four. One hundred years ago today, Johnny Mercer was...

In this article: Judy Garland, Savannah, Henry Mancini, Moon River, Georgia State University, and The Harvey Girls

Tony winners Karen Ziemba and James Naughton will perform alongside Billy Stritch and Debbie Boone. "Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields, George Gershwin and many others wrote songs for the movies of Fred Astaire and...

In this article: Lyricists, Karen Ziemba, Johnny Burke, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Hoagy Carmichael, and Misty

...his most famous tune, "Moon River") and 19 nominations. Mercer's musical collaborators included titans like Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern and Henry Mancini, and his range was prodigious: He turned out both light-footed comedy lyrics like the one...

In this article: Harold Arlen, Academy Awards, Moon River, Come Rain or Come Shine, Laura, I Remember You, Hooray for Hollywood, and Early Autumn

...story about a French waif brought to America for a taste of the high life. 1933 Bob Hope has his first featured role on Broadway in Jerome Kern's Roberta, also starring Lyda Roberti, Fay Templeton, Tamara, George Murphy and Sydney...

In this article: Alan Alda, Cy Coleman, Democracy, Road Show, QED, Joan of Lorraine, and The Skin of Our Teeth

...of "Les Miserables" earlier this year, Signature Theatre artistic director Eric Schaeffer leads a stripped-down restaging of the Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein musical about showboat performers in turn-of-the-20th-century Mississippi.

In this article: Washington, Woolly mammoth, Signature Theatre, Sir Lancelot, Hiv/aids, Lerner and Loewe, The Alchemist, Guinevere, and Ben Jonson

Signature artistic director Schaeffer, with the permission of the writers' estates, draws from three different versions of the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein musical to create a hybrid. The onetime spectacle (last revived on Broadway in...

In this article: Show Boat, Signature Theatre, Oscar Hammerstein, Arlington, Orchestration, and Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man

Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA, launches a new production of the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein musical Show Boat. Eric Schaeffer directs the musical drama, which covers 40 years of history, in the Tony-winning resident company's...

In this article: Show Boat, Signature Theatre, Arlington, VA, and Orchestration