Podcast appearances and mentions of bella spewack

Celebrating Dorothy Fields 118th Birthday! Women have had a much more significant impact on the Broadway Musical than has generally been reported or acknowledged. In fact, talented, dynamic women have been a major force in the creation and development of the American musical theater from the very beginning and right up to today. In this episode my special guest Albert Evans and I will share the often overlooked stories of songwriters and bookwriters Rida Johnson Young, Dorothy Donnelly, Nora Bays, Ann Ronell, Kay Swift, Betty Comden, Bella Spewack, Mary Rodgers, Carolyn Leigh, and especially Dorothy Fields, whose amazing 50-year career stretched from the vaudeville era to the age of rock! Special thanks to Billie Wildrick for her voice acting contributions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Look, I know they made Kiss Me, Kate over 70 years ago but I am mad about it today. I’m sorry. Sometimes my rage is not on time. Did you know that a woman wrote the book for this musical? I did not. I work in theatre, fanatically listened to the Broadway cast album in my youth, have seen at least two productions, I care about women’s achievements in this field and I did not know that a woman wrote Kiss Me, Kate. How did I miss that? To keep reading I'm Mad About Kiss Me, Kate, visit the Songs for the Struggling Artist blog. This is Episode 248 Song: I'm Always True to You in My Fashion from Kiss Me, Kate Image of Bella Spewack via Wikipedia To support this podcast: Give it 5 stars in Apple Podcasts. Write a nice review! Rate it wherever you listen or via: https://ratethispodcast.com/strugglingartist Join my mailing list: www.emilyrainbowdavis.com/ Like the blog/show on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SongsfortheStrugglingArtist/ Support me on Patreon: www.patreon.com/emilyrdavis Or buy me a coffee on Kofi: http://ko-fi.com/emilyrainbowdavis or PayPal me: https://www.paypal.me/strugglingartist Follow me on Twitter @erainbowd Instagram and Pinterest Tell a friend! Listen to The Dragoning here (it's my audio drama) and support via Ko-fi here: https://ko-fi.com/messengertheatrecompany As ever, I am yours, Emily Rainbow Davis

Cole Porter loved riding big ol' stallions, drugs, Venice, and gay, homosexual, buttsecks. Other times he loved Shakespeare and gangsters. We go high brow and low in Padua this week! - Learn all about how Cole Porter and Bella Spewack wrote their backstage-Shakespearean musical Kiss Me, Kate.

Women have had a much more significant impact on the Broadway Musical than has generally been reported or acknowledged. In fact, talented, dynamic women have been a major force in the creation and development of the American musical theater from the very beginning and right up to today. In this episode my special guest Albert Evans and I will share the often overlooked stories of songwriters and bookwriters Rida Johnson Young, Dorothy Donnelly, Nora Bays, Ann Ronell, Kay Swift, Betty Comden, Bella Spewack, Mary Rodgers, Carolyn Leigh, and especially Dorothy Fields, whose amazing 50-year career stretched from the vaudeville era to the age of rock! Special thanks to Billie Wildrick for her voice acting contributions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“He that is giddy thinks the world turns round” – The Widow We’re back with episode 8! Despite some mid-episode audio issues, we’re commencing my look at The Taming of the Shrew, circa 1592, one of the Bard’s rougher early works. Join me for a journey through the plot’s highs and lows, Shakespeare’s first googlewhack, and a heckuva lot of male privilege.   You can find me on Facebook, Twitter, or by email at podcastshakespeare@gmail.com. You can subscribe to the podcast at iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud, or download direct from Libsyn. Key links below. You can also visit the bibliography page here, which is a work in progress. Links mentioned: Patient Griselda Ovid, Heroides (Penelope to Ulysses) Dittography 10 Things I Hate About You (1999; d: Gil Junger) Deliver Us From Eva (2003; d: Gary Hardwick) ShakespeaRe-Told: The Taming of the Shrew (2005; d: David Richards) Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare After All (Penguin Random House, 2005) John Fletcher, The Woman’s Prize, or the Tamer Tamed (1611) Music clips: Nino Rota, soundtrack to Zeffirelli’s “The Taming of the Shrew”, 1967 (Columbia Picutres, US / Italy) orchestra conducted by Carlo Savina -Overture -Student’s Masquerade -Sarabande -Married on Sunday “Orchestral selections from Kiss Me, Kate” (Naxos), conducted by Richard Hayman Excerpts: “The Taming of the Shrew”, Shakespeare’s Globe (2011), d: Toby Frow; members of the company (Lord / Huntsmen), Simon Paisley Day (Petruchio), Samantha Spiro (Katharina), Pearce Quigley (Grumio) “The Taming of the Shrew”, Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1994), d: Aida Ziablikova, Malcolm Storry (Christopher Sly); John Warner (Servant), and Hilton McRae (Peter) “Kiss Me Kate” by Cole Porter, and Sam and Bella Spewack, PBS: Great Performances (2003), d: Chris Hunt; Brent Barrett (Petruchio) “The Taming of the Shrew”, BBC Television Shakespeare (1980), d: Jonathan Miller; John Cleese (Petruchio), Susan Penhaligon (Bianca), Simon Chandler (Lucentio), Jonathan Cecil (Hortensio), Harry Waters (Biondello), Anthony Pedley (Tranio), John Barron (Vincentio), Sarah Badel (Katharina) “Kiss Me, Petruchio” (BBC2, 1979), d: Christopher Dixon, from Joseph Papp’s 1978 Taming of the Shrew (Delacorte Theatre, Central Park); Meryl Streep (Kate), Raul Julia (Petruchio) “The Taming of the Shrew”, Arkangel Shakespeare (2005); Roger Allam (Petruchio), Frances Barber (Katharina), Charles Simpson (Hortensio) “The Taming of the Shrew” (Pickford Corporation, 1929), d: Sam Taylor; Mary Pickford (Katherine) Final speech (details above): Meryl Streep (1979); Mary Pickford (1929); Frances Barber (2005); Samantha Spiro (2011); Sarah Badel (1980)

Kiss me Kate is a Cole Porter classic and (we feel) super underrated! So let’s flashback to the episode we did with a Kate of our own Naomi Mole!This week Zane and Patrick will chat with Naomi Mole about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Cole Porter's classic musical - Kiss Me, Kate!BOOK TICKETS TO KISS ME, KATE!Gold Coast Little Theatre - FACEBOOK, GCLT Kiss Me, Kate!- FURTHER READING -Wiki - Musical, Film, Cole PorterIMDbiTunesSpotify- CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -Samuel and Bella Spewack, Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison, Lisa Kirk, Harold Lang, Bill Johnson, Adelaide Hall, Julie Wilson, Marin Mazzie, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Amy Spanger, Michael Berresse, Lee Wilkof, Ron Holgate, Michael Mulheren, Brent Barrett, Kelli O'Hara, Cole Porter, Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Keenan Wynn, Bobby Van, Tommy Rall, Bob Fosse, Willard Parker, Ron RandellLike us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon!Email us: musicalstaughtmepodcast@gmail.comVisit our home on the web thatsnotcanonproductions.comOur theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedict Braxton Smith. Find out more about him at www.benedictbraxtonsmith.com

We conclude our acclaimed "Ronald-Reagan-appears-for-two-minutes-as-a-radio-announcer" series with Boy Meets Girl (1938), a Hollywood satire/"crazy comedy" adapted from the smash Sam and Bella Spewack play. Directed by Warner comedy ace Lloyd Bacon, the film certainly has its charms, but James Cagney and Pat O'Brien are playing roles originally intended for Olsen and Johnson - 'nuff said. The star duo's destabilizing antics are cribbed from the career-limiting capers of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, opening up a fertile discussion of Hollywood labour practices during the second half of the Great Depression. We also get to spend a little more time with Dick Foran in a parody cowboy role (this time, a highly paid one) and meet the magnificent Marie Wilson (Judy Holliday avant la lettre). Don't forget Ralph Bellamy! He's in the mix too, as a line producer with delusions of intellectual sensibility.    Among the other topics of discussion on offer: Gene Autry's Cowboy Code, the PATSY Animal Actor Awards, the Childs' restaurant chain, vintage vegetarian satire, and a consideration of an alternate timeline in which Penny Singleton spelled the Gipper in the Governor's Mansion and, ultimately, the White House.   Follow us at: Facebook Follow Romy on Twitter at @rahrahtempleton Follow Gareth on Twitter at @helenreddymades Follow David on Twitter at @milescoverdale

We conclude our acclaimed "Ronald-Reagan-appears-for-two-minutes-as-a-radio-announcer" series with Boy Meets Girl (1938), a Hollywood satire/"crazy comedy" adapted from the smash Sam and Bella Spewack play. Directed by Warner comedy ace Lloyd Bacon, the film certainly has its charms, but James Cagney and Pat O'Brien are playing roles originally intended for Olsen and Johnson - 'nuff said. The star duo's destabilizing antics are cribbed from the career-limiting capers of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, opening up a fertile discussion of Hollywood labour practices during the second half of the Great Depression. We also get to spend a little more time with Dick Foran in a parody cowboy role (this time, a highly paid one) and meet the magnificent Marie Wilson (Judy Holliday avant la lettre). Don't forget Ralph Bellamy! He's in the mix too, as a line producer with delusions of intellectual sensibility.    Among the other topics of discussion on offer: Gene Autry's Cowboy Code, the PATSY Animal Actor Awards, the Childs' restaurant chain, vintage vegetarian satire, and a consideration of an alternate timeline in which Penny Singleton spelled the Gipper in the Governor's Mansion and, ultimately, the White House.   Follow us at: Facebook Follow Romy on Twitter at @rahrahtempleton Follow Gareth on Twitter at @helenreddymades Follow David on Twitter at @milescoverdale

This week Zane and Patrick will chat with Naomi Mole about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Cole Porter's classic musical - Kiss Me, Kate!BOOK TICKETS TO KISS ME, KATE!Gold Coast Little Theatre - FACEBOOK, GCLT Kiss Me, Kate!- FURTHER READING -Wiki - Musical, Film, Cole PorterIMDbiTunesSpotify- CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -Samuel and Bella Spewack, Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison, Lisa Kirk, Harold Lang, Bill Johnson, Adelaide Hall, Julie Wilson, Marin Mazzie, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Amy Spanger, Michael Berresse, Lee Wilkof, Ron Holgate, Michael Mulheren, Brent Barrett, Kelli O'Hara, Cole Porter, Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Keenan Wynn, Bobby Van, Tommy Rall, Bob Fosse, Willard Parker, Ron RandellLike us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon!Email us: musicalstaughtmepodcast@gmail.comVisit our home on the web thatsnotcanonproductions.comOur theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedict Braxton Smith. Find out more about him at www.benedictbraxtonsmith.com

It's Thursday, and time again for a visit with Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck, who joins us in the studio each week with her reviews of the region's theatrical endeavors. This week, she spotlights the new production of Kiss Me, Kate, the Bard-inspired musical now on stage at Annapolis Shakespeare Company. Kiss Me, Kate is the ----backstage story---- of the production of a fictional musical version of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, fueled by the conflicts, on-stage and off, between the show's director, producer and star, and his temperamental leading lady (and ex-wife).Written by Samuel and Bella Spewack, with music and lyrics by the inimitable Cole Porter, Kiss Me, Kate opened on Broadway in 1948 and enjoyed a long and successful initial run. In 1949, it won five Tony Awards, including the first Tony ever presented for Best Musical. Ever since, it has been a frequent internationally popular choice for revivals.Directed and choreographed for Annapolis Shakespeare Company by Sally Boyett, with musical direction by Marc Irwin, Kiss Me Kate features a 17-member cast led by Benjamin Russell as producer Fred Graham and Robin Weiner as his ex-wife and star, Lilli Vanessi.Kiss Me Kate continues at Annapolis Shakespeare Company through Sunday June 3.

Reviews of (1) THE GLASS MENAGERIE, by Tennessee Williams, at Upstream Theater, (2) THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL, by Horton Foote, at The Theatre Guild of Webster Groves, (3) KISS ME, KATE, by Cole Porter and Samuel & Bella Spewack, at Family Musical Theater, (4) THE ADDAMS FAMILY, by Marshall Brickman & Rick Elise and Andrew Lippa, at the Kirkwood Theatre Guild, (5) BULLETS OVER BROADWAY, by Woody Allen and Glen Kelly, at the Peabody Opera House, and (6) LAUGHING STOCK, by Charles Morey, at KTK Productions.

Bob Wilcox and Gerry Kowarsky review (1) THE LAST NIGHT OF BALLYHOO, by Alfred Uhry, at the New Jewish Theatre, (2) THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER, by Laura Eason, at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, (3) MY THREE ANGELS, by Sam and Bella Spewack, at St. Louis Actors' Studio, (4) CHRISTMAS WITH THE RAT PACK: LIVE AT THE SANDS, Fox Theatre, (5) KRAPP'S LAST TAPE, by Samuel Beckett, at Black Mirror Theatre, (6) DR. SEUSS' HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS, by Timothy Mason & Mel Marvin, at the Peabody Opera House, (7) JESUS HOPPED THE 'A' TRAIN, by Stephen Adly Guirgis, at R-S Theatrics, (8) WHAMMY! THE SEVEN SECRETS TO A SANE SELF, by Chuck Harper, at HotCity Theatre, and (9) HOT L BALTIMORE, by Lanford Wilson, at Webster Univ. Conservatory.