Americana

Following the success of their first two blockbusters, Oklahoma! in 1943 and Carousel in 1945, expectations ran high […]

Billed as “The Heavenly Musical Hit,” Forever Plaid, a sly tribute to the male vocal groups of the […]

Ossie Davis’s award-winning 1961 play, Purlie Victorious, was turned into an exciting new musical by Peter Udell (lyrics) […]

The musical Paint Your Wagon took librettist and lyricist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe to 1853 […]

Because the practice of releasing a cast album didn’t exist in the 1930s, in 1951 Columbia producer Goddard […]