December 18, 2007
and music
8 tonight
Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan
Tickets, $22-$46
(312) 294-3000
It’s a Louis Armstrong centennial celebration at Symphony Center Saturday night.
Music
One night, on some remote track, he was assaulted by thieves. Mese Figueredo was on his way to a wedding on muleback - he on one mule, the harp on another - when the thieves jumped on him and beat him senseless.
The following day, someone found him. He was lying in the path, a filthy rag of mud and blood, more dead than alive.
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The Musical
The American musical theater of the twentieth century is a widely diverse genre that encompasses a variety of styles. From traditional operettas and musical comedies by composers such as Sigmund Romberg and George Gershwin in the early part of the century, through mid-century dramatic works by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II and their contemporaries, to shows that expand the boundaries of the genre by creators such as Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber, the musical has been immensely popular with audiences worldwide for over one hundred years. A work in which music and drama are combined in various ways, the Broadway musical adds dance, costumes, sets, orchestration, and musical style to the basic duality of music and drama to create a singular contribution to both American and global popular culture.
Works for the musical stage appeared in the United States prior to the twentieth century, thus establishing important precedents for the Broadway musical. Important genres included European-style opera, ballad opera, minstrel shows, and vaudeville. The first Broadway musical is generally acknowledged to be The Black Crook (1866). This show was significant for two reasons: it established New York City as a center for musical theater; and it played for 475 performances, instituting a defining goal of the successful Broadway musical–a long commercial run.
During the first third of the twentieth century, three distinct types of musical theater co-existed on Broadway stages: revue, musical comedy, and operetta. The revue was a performer-based genre and included comic skits and songs, often on a central topic. Ziegfeld\’s Follies, Shubert\’s Passing Shows, George White\’s Scandals, and Irving Berlin\’s Music Box Revues were among the most popular series of revues. Significant composers for the revue included Irving Berlin and George Gershwin. Fannie Brice, Marilyn Miller, Will Rogers, and Al Jolson were just a few of the stars whose fame was established in the genre.
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Friends House Concerts, Luckett house, 7 p.m. today, $10, 329- 1644
While he strums in the intimate comfort of the Luckett house living room, where he last performed in November, the grittier aspects of Peter Mulvey’s artistic life come bleeding out. The singer- songwriter, with a penchant for ambitious, creative fretwork, spent time busking in Dublin, Ireland, then in daylong sessions in the subways and streets of Boston.
Milwaukee-based Mulvey is a well-rounded artist who studied theater in college before beginning his successful music career.
He recently released “Kitchen Radio,” his eighth album and first disc of original songs in four years.
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Mulvey’s material ranges from rootsy tunes to melodic rockers.
The Irish influences in his music are still there, particularly in the bouncy, yet melancholy, “Sad, Sad, Sad, Sad (and Faraway from Home),” the closing cut on “Kitchen Radio.”
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music
What: The Karen Hastings Players radio theater production of “It’s A Wonderful Life,” adapted by Phil Grecian from the 1946 Frank Capra film, which was based on “The Greatest Gift,” a story by Philip Van Doren Stern
When: 7:30 p.m. today, Dec. 3; 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 4; 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 10-11; and 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 17-18
Where: Hussey Playhouse, lower level, Topeka Performing Arts Center, 214 S.E. 8th
How much: $15 ($12 students and seniors)
Buy how: Call 232-3173 for reservations