42nd Street News

In their 90th year the Cecilian Music Society is putting on '42nd Street', which promises to be one of their best yet IT PROMISES to be the show to end all shows.

COWBOY FROM BROOKLYN is an exceedingly silly comedy about an animal-phobic singing cowboy , made worthwhile by some pleasant musical numbers and the fun of watching a number of up-and-coming actors in small roles.

The Great Depression has rolled off many a pundit's tongue of late as we strain to make sense of the current economic meltdown.

We're in the money Gold Diggers of 1933 A snappy line of chorus girls frolic in front of the camera: wearing skimpy outfits adorned with giant gold coins, they sing "We're in the money!" But this denial of Depression reality only lasts so long.

From "I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang" to "42nd Street" -- An era that can't easily be summed up.

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"Anyone who doesn't want this job," says the Broadway dance director, admonishing a group of aspiring chorus line members, "the next bread line is around the corner." Images View Larger Image This line from "42nd Street," playing through Oct.

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were cast as show business colleagues in "Flying Down to Rio," the first of the nine RKO musicals that teamed them in the 1930s.

The next time you check your 401 , take a page from the kids in '42nd Street,' now in a polished, high-energy production at Westchester Broadway Theatre in Elmsford Instead of being a gloomy Gus when you see your bottom line, dance your way through the kitchen and into the living room.

Come and meet those dancing feet on "42nd Street" at the Westchester Broadway Theatre once again.

ABSTRACT: Talk story about Yosemite park ranger Shelton Johnson visiting New York for the premiere of Ken Burns's "The National Parks." Newyorker.com has a complete archive of The New Yorker , back to 1925.

Busby Berkeley's GOLD DIGGERS OF 1935 takes the "Let's put on a show!" concept to a high-end summer resort, where Dick Powell, Gloria Stuart, and a cast of thousands -- or at least hundreds -- appear in a charity fundraising production.

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Mrs. Wellman starred in her husband's film WILD BOYS OF THE ROAD and also appeared as a dancer in 42ND STREET and GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 .

It's an old story: the rapid rise and fall of the musical in the early days of sound film, and the rescue of the genre, in extremis, by a nearly bankrupt Warner Bros., with the backstage musical "42nd Street," featuring musical numbers by Busby Berkeley.

Lee Chappell by Gerry Visco / flickr.com/photos/gerryvisco/ My mind is usually in the gutter and so is my bowling ball.

"I talk with the authority of failure.'' When thinking about the popular culture of the 1930s, that icon of Jazz Age decadence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, rarely comes to mind.

Coming from "42nd Street" to Clapboard Ridge Road, professional tap dancer Jeri Kansas has joined the staff at the Just Dance School of Performing Arts in Danbury.

The classic Depression-era musical 42nd Street will be shown in Rochester tonight.