The Concert Singers

Summer Concert 2007

There's No Business Like Show Business

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) {06}
2. The Telephone Hour (1960: from Bye Bye Birdie; w. Lee Adams; m. Charles Strouse; arr. Mark Brymer) {new}
3. Summertime (1935: from Porgy and Bess; w. Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward; m. George Gershwin; arr. Russell Robinson) 
4. Nice Work If You Can Get It (1937: from the film A Damsel in Distress; w. Ira Gershwin; m. George Gershwin; arr. Greg Gilpin) {98}
5. Someone to Watch Over Me (1926: w. Ira Gershwin; m. George Gershwin; from Oh, Kay!) [solo: Kelly Peters]
6. Selections from "A Gershwin Portrait" (1991: w. Ira Gershwin; m. George Gershwin; arr. Mac Huff)
   • Fascinating Rhythm {04}
     • Fascinating Rhythm (1924: from Lady Be Good)
     • I Got Rhythm (1930: 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)
7. They Can't Take That Away From Me (1936: from the film Shall We Dance; m. George Gershwin; w. Ira Gershwin; arr. Strommen) {06}
8. Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered (1940: w. Lorenz Hart; m. Richard Rodgers; from Pal Joey) [solo Linda Winters]
9. A Wink and a Smile (1993:  w. Ramsey McClain; m. Marc Shaiman; arr. John Leavitt; from the film Sleepless in Seattle) {05}
10. Something's Coming/Tonight (1957: from West Side Story; m. Leonard Bernstein; w. Stephen Sondheim; arr. Ed Lojeski) {new}

Intermission

1. Blue Skies (1927: wm. Irving Berlin; from Betsy; arr. Steve Zegree) {05}
2. On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) (1965: w. Alan Jay Lerner; m. Burton Lane; arr. Steve Zegree; from On a Clear Day You Can See Forever) {01}
3. Pennies From Heaven (1936: w. John Burke; m. Arthur Johnston; from the film Pennies from Heaven; arr. Kirby Shaw) {new}
4. Star Dust (1927-9: w. Mitchell Parrish; m. Hoagy Carmichael; arr. Ed Lojeski) {03}
5. Bill (1918, 1927: w. P. G. Wodehouse & Oscar Hammerstein II; m.Jerome Kern; from Show Boat) [solo: Diane]
6. I Feel Pretty (1957: from West Side Story; m. Leonard Bernstein; w. Stephen Sondheim; arr. William Stickles)
7. Bali Ha'i (1949: w. Oscar Hammerstein II; m. Richard Rodgers; from South Pacific) [Solo: Jean Gasca]
8. Over the Rainbow (1939: from The Wizard of Oz; m. Harold Arlen; w. E. Y. Harburg, arr. Teena Chinn) {06}
9. Classic Cole Porter Medley – V. "Anything Goes" (arr. Mac Huff) {new}
   • Anything Goes (1934: from Anything Goes)
   • You're the Top (1934: from Anything Goes)
   • It's De-Lovely (1936: from Red, Hot and Blue, which featured Ethel Merman, Jimmy Durante, and Bob Hope)
   • Let's Misbehave (1928: from Paris)
   • My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1938: from Leave It To Me, which introduced Mary Martin)
   • Be a Clown (1947: from The Pirate, which featured Gene Kelly and Judy Garland)
   • Friendship (1939: best song from Du Barry Was a Lady; the 1943 film version featured Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, and Gene Kelly;  used in the 1962 revival of Anything Goes)
   • Begin the Beguine (1935: from Jubilee)
   • Night and Day (1932: from Gay Divorce)
   • From This Moment On (1950: originally for Out of This World, unused; later used in the film version of Kiss Me Kate)

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

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Performance

• Sunday, July 15, 2007: Annual Ice Cream Social and Vocal Jazz Concert, 4pm at Covenant Presbyterian Church.