The Concert Singers

Summer Concert 2006

Now You Has Jazz

Music from Broadway and Movie Musicals

Program

  1. There’s No Business Like Show Business (1946: from Annie Get Your Gun; wm. Irving Berlin; arr. Mark Brymer) {91}
  2. It Had To Be You (1924: w. Gus Kahn; m. Isham Jones; used in the 1936 film Melody in May and the1944 film Show Business; arr. Russ Robinson) [Sat.: Jean & Harris; Sun.: Kelly & Jon C.] {03}
  3. Classic Cole Porter Medley – I. "From This Moment On" (wm. Cole Porter; arr. Mac Huff)
  4. *Easier To Love (1983: w. Richard Maltby, Jr.; m. David Shire; from Baby) [Charles Greenwood]
  5. I Got Rhythm (1930: m. George Gershwin; m. Ira Gershwin; arr. Pete Schmutte; from Girl Crazy; used in the musical films Girl Crazy [1930 & 1932]; Rhapsody in Blue [biopic of GG]; An American in Paris; and When the Boys Meet the Girls;  in the show Girl Crazy, both Ethel Merman and Ginger Rogers made their Broadway debut.) {92}
  6. I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face (1956: from My Fair Lady; w. Alan Jay Lerner; m. Frederick Loewe; arr. Steve Zegree) [solo: Chuck] {04}
  7. *I Love a Piano (1915: wm. Irving Berlin; from the musical show Stop! Look! Listen!) [Barbara Miller]
  8. And All That Jazz (1973: w. Fred Ebb; m. John Kander; arr. Kirby Shaw; from Chicago) {04}
  9. Time After Time (1947: w. Sammy Cahn; m. Jule Styne; from the film It Happened in Brooklyn; arr. Kirby Shaw) {03}
  10. *Something Wonderful (1951: w. Oscar Hammerstein II; m. Richard Rodgers; from The King and I) [Cynthia Rothschild]
  11. Classic Cole Porter Medley – II. "Now You Has Jazz" [solo: Kelly; duet: Harris and Ann]

Intermission

  1. The Joint Is Jumpin’ (1938: used in Ain’t Misbehavin’ [1978]; w. Andy Razaf & J. C. Johnson; m .Thomas "Fats" Waller; arr. Mark A. Brymer) {96}
  2. Ain’t Misbehavin' (1929: w. Andy Razaf ; m. Thomas "Fats" Waller & Harry Brooks; arr. K. Shaw) [Barbara, scat solo] {98}
  3. *Luck Be a Lady Tonight (1950: wm. Frank Loesser; from Guys and Dolls) [Rich Falstrom]
  4. Over the Rainbow (1939: from The Wizard of Oz; m. Harold Arlen; w. E. Y. Harburg, arr. Teena Chinn) 
  5. Sisters (1954: wm. Irving Berlin; from the film White Christmas) [Joanne Rachford, Teressa Syta, Kelly Peters]
  6. Two selections from South Pacific (1949: w. Oscar Hammerstein II; m. Richard Rodgers)
  7. I’ll Be Seeing You (1938: w. Irving Kahal; m. Sammy Fain; arr. Phil Mattson; from Right This Way)
  8. They Can't Take That Away From Me (1936: from the film Shall We Dance; m. George Gershwin; w. Ira Gershwin; arr. Strommen)
  9. The Last Ball (2005: w. Kincaid Jones; m. Stephanie Hutchinson; incidental music for Lady Windermere's Fan, the play by Oscar Wilde) [Lady Plymdale: Joanne; Duchess of Berwick: Cynthia; Mr Cecil Graham: Harris; Mr Dumby: Jon C.; spoken “Mrs. Erlynne!”:  Bob]

Note: numbers in brackets {04} indicate year of last (known) performance.

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