All tagged William Daniels
Have you ever stumbled upon an older film that you have never heard of and decide to give it a try? Then you watch the movie and you find yourself completely riveted? That is what happened to me when I came across Ladybug Ladybug. It’s a small film, there is nothing lavish about it, but it definitely crept into my psyche and has stayed there for years. Made in 1964 and directed by Academy Award nominated director Frank Perry, the film is a chilling exploration of the Cold War and how it promised unbelievable horrors.
New York City Center Encores! celebrates the rarely heard works of America’s most important composers and lyricists. Conceived in 1994 as concert performances, Encores! gives three glorious scores the chance to be heard as their creators originally intended.” This is directly quoted from the City Center website as the explanation and purpose of the Encores! series. It’s a worthy mission and goal, and one most of us would embrace. Their most recent concert of Vernon Duke and John Latouche’s Cabin in the Sky is an excellent example of a show richly deserving of this treatment. It was also an electrifying production of a show that will most likely never receive a full-scale production after again. Amazing music combined with a dated, mediocre book, and Cabin in the Sky was the right fit for the criteria of “rarely heard works.”
