Broadway Legacy, 1960-1995:
Fantasticks to
Phantom of the Opera
A Celebration of the American
Musical Stage
Celebrate a century of one of America’s
greatest contributions to the world of art - the Broadway musical - through
word and song with Michael Ballam.
Possessing a PhD in Music History
and Literature, Dr. Ballam has performed on the major stages of America and
Europe in a vast repertoire that spans every form of the musical stage, from
Broadway shows such as “Carousel,” “Oliver,” “West
Side Story,” “Man of La Mancha,” “Stop the World,”
and “Paint Your Wagon” through operettas including “Merry Widow,”
“Mikado,” “Pirates of Penzance,” and “Die Fledermaus,”
to grand opera such as “Carmen,” “La Boheme,” “La Traviata,”
and “Madame Butterfly.”
Survey the development of one of
the most fertile fields of art, planted and cultivated on American soil, through
the passionate perspective of this consummate performing historian.
Includes excerpts from the
following:
Tape Seven
- Fantasticks to A
Chorus Line (1948-1955)
Lyricists/Composers:
Betty Comden, Adolf Green,
Jule Styne, Tom Jones, Harvey Schmidt, Meredith Willson,
Frank Loesser, Richard Rodgers, Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley,
Lionel Bart, Sheldon Harnick, Jerry Bock, Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe,
Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Herman, Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Marvin Hammlisch
Shows: “Fantasticks,”
“The Unsinkable Molly Brown,” “How To Succeed in Business,”
“Stop the World,” “Oliver,” “Funny Girl,”
“Fiddler on the Roof,” “Hello Dolly,” “Cabaret,”
“Mame,” “I Do! I Do!,” “A Chorus Line”
Songs: Try to Remember,
Once in a Lifetime, What Kind of Fool Am I, As Long As He Needs Me, People,
Sunrise, Sunset, Hello Dolly!, Who Can I Turn To?, Send in the Clowns, What
I Did for Love
Tape Eight - Annie to Phantom of the Opera (1975-1995)
Lyricists/Composers: Charles
Strouse, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stephen Sondheim, Roger Miller, Alain Boublil,
Claude Michael Schoenberg, Marsha Norman, Lucy Simon, Howard Ashman, Alan Menken
Shows: “Annie,”
“Evita,” “Sweeney Todd,” “Cats,” “Big
River,” “Les Miserables,” “Phantom of the Opera,”
“Into the Woods,” “Miss Siagon,” “Secret Garden,”
“Beauty and the Beast”
Songs: Tomorrow, Don’t
Cry For Me, Argentina, Memory, I Dreamed a Dream, Bring Him Home, Think of Me,
Music of the Night, You Are Not Alone, Come to My Garden, Beauty and the Beast
