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(9Vs, Op BROOKLYN ACADEMY of MUSIC 111 Harvey Lichtenstein, President and Executive Producer Presents 3 /ii/ 27 (9Vs, Op BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC 111 Harvey Lichtenstein, President and Executive Producer Presents Opera House March II, 1987 The Gershwin Celebration MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Music Director THE GERSHWIN GALA The Music of GEORGE GERSHWIN Starring (In Alphabetical Order) AMERICAN BALLROOM THEATRE LARRY KERT DREW BARRYMORE MANHATTAN RHYTHM KINGS MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV MAUREEN McGOVERN GREGG BURGE JULIA MIGENES ROSEMARY CLOONEY ERIE MILLS THE COPASETICS HAROLD NICHOLAS BOB DYLAN CHITA RIVERA DAMON EVANS BOBBY SHORT CYNTHIA HAYMON MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS RUBY HINDS TOMMY TUNE MADELINE KAHN CHRISTOPHER WALKEN JOHN "JOHNNY" GREEN, HIS PIANO AND ORCHESTRA ORCHESTRA OF ST. LUKE'S Choreography by WALTER PAINTER DAN SIRETTA Produced by ARTHUR WHITELAW Music Director and Conductor MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Scenery and Costume Design Lighting Design EDUARDO SICANGCO KEN BILLINGTON Sound Design Hair and Make Up Design OTTS MUNDERLOH DENNIS BERGEVIN JEFFREY FRANK Directed and Choreographed by PATRICIA BIRCH Produced in association with Great Performances, WNET/THIRTEEN Jac Venza, Executive Producer This program will be taped for two future broadcasts of Great Performances. The Gershwin Gala Performance has been made possible pg with a grant from The Bankers Trust Company Group LI Additional support for the Gershwin Gala Dinner and Reception has been provided by Vanity Fair Magazine and Abraham and Straus. The Gershwin Celebration is made possible with grants from The Wallace Funds, The Aaron Diamond Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. The BAM facility is owned by the City of New York, and its operation is supported in part with public funds provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. The Brooklyn Academy of Music wishes to express its appreciation to Theatre Development Fund for its support of this season. Judith E. Daykin, Managing Director Michael O'Rand, General Manager r- VIM ACT I Rhapsody in Blue (Jazz Version) MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS 1924 Original orchestration by Ferde Grofe Introductory Remarks HARVEY LICHTENSTEIN, MAYOR EDWARD KOCH TIN PAN ALLEY Rialto Ripple Piano Roll 1917 Music by George Gershwin & Will Donaldson (Original piano roll played by George Gershwin) When You Want 'Em You Can't Get 'Em MANHATTAN RHYTHM KINGS 1916 Lyrics by Murray Roth (George Gershwin's first published song) BROADWAY The Best of Everything MANHATTAN RHYTHM KINGS (La-La Lucille) 1919 Lyrics by Arthur J. Jackson & B.G. DeSylva (George Gershwin's first full Broadway score) Swanee LARRY KERT (Capital Theatre Demi-Tasse Revue) 1919 Lyrics by Irving Caesar Original orchestration by Frank Sadler Come To The Moon MANHATTAN RHYTHM KINGS (Capital Theatre Demi-Tasse Revue) 1919 Lyrics by Lou Paley & Ned Wayburn Original orchestration by Frank Sadler LONDON Naughty Baby ERIE MILLS (Primrose) 1924 Lyrics by Desmond Carter & Ira Gershwin, Orchestration by George Gershwin (George Gershwin's first book musical in London) BROADWAY Nobody But You BOBBY SHORT (La-La Lucille) 1919 Lyrics by Arthur J. Jackson & B.G. DeSylva Somebody Loves Me ROSEMARY CLOONEY, accompanied by John Oddo (George White's Scandals of 1924) Lyrics by B.G. DeSylva & Ballard MacDonald Fascinating Rhythm TOMMY TUNE, DREW BARRYMORE (Lady Be Good) 1924 Choreography by WALTER PAINTER I Got Rhythm CHITA RIVERA, MANHATTAN RHYTHM KINGS (Girl Crazy) 1930 Original orchestration by Robert Russell Bennet How Long Has This Been Going On? MADELINE KAHN (Rosalie) 1928 But Not For Me MAUREEN McGOVERN (Girl Crazy) 1930 Original orchestration by Robert Russell Bennett The Man I Love JULIA MIGENES (Lady Be Good) 1924 Someone To Watch Over Me MADELINE KAHN, MAUREEN McGOVERN, JULIA MIGENES (Oh, Kay!) 1926 King of Swing GREGG BURGE, THE COPASETICS (Swing is King) 1936 Lyrics by Albert Stillman Original orchestration by Charles Cooke from Radio City Music Hall production (George Gershwin's last song for the stage) American Ballroom Theatre Manhattan Rhythm Kings Bonnie Diaz Tripp Hanson Richard Diaz Brian Nalepka Pierre Dulaine Hal Shane Shelley Freydont Yvonne Marceau Gala Dancers Cathi Nyemchek Karen Harvey David Askler John Nyemchek Melissa Haizlip Raymond Del Barrio Gary Pierce Kelly Hughes Russell Giesenschlag Donna King Raymond Harris The Copasetics Lynn Marlowe Rick Pessagno James Brown Sara Miles Chris Peterson Louis Simmes Carpenter Julie Ostling Bubba Dean Rambo Charles Cook Nikki Sahagen Keith Savage Leslie Gains Maryellen Scilla Leroy Myers Henry Roberts ACT II BALLET Nocturne for Lily Pons Short Story 1925 Realisation by Michael Tilson Thomas Promenade 1937 MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV, MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Orchestration by George Gershwin and Nathanial Shilkret, Choreography by DAN SIRETTA BROADWAY Summertime CYNTHIA HAYMON (Porgy and Bess) 1935 Lyrics by Ira Gershwin & DuBose Hayward, Orchestration by George Gershwin Lonely Boy CYNTHIA HAYMON, RUBY HINDS (Porgy and Bess) 1935 Lyrics by DuBose Hayward, Orchestration by Gregg Smith (World premiere. This piece was written for, but has never been used, in the opera.) Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York DAMON EVANS (Porgy and Bess) 1935 Lyrics by Ira Gershwin & DuBose Hayward, Orchestration by George Gershwin Soon BOB DYLAN (Strike Up The Band) 1930 HOLLYWOOD with JOHN "JOHNNY" GREEN, his piano and his orchestra They Can't Take That Away From Me CHRISTOPHER WALKEN (Shall We Dance) 1937 Let's Call The Whole Thing Off MADELINE KAHN, LARRY KERT (Shall We Dance) 1937 They All Laughed MAUREEN McGOVERN (Shall We Dance) 1937 Slap That Bass HAROLD NICHOLAS, BRIAN NALEPKA (Shall We Dance) 1937 A Foggy Day ROSEMARY CLOONEY, accompanied by John Oddo (Damsel in Distress) 1937 Nice Work If You; Can Get It HAROLD NICHOLAS, MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS, (Damsel in Distress) 1937 JOHN "JOHNNY" GREEN FINALE Love Walked In (Goldwyn Follies) 1938 Love Is Sweeping The Country (Of Thee I Sing) 1931 Love Is Here To Stay COMPANY (Goldwyn Follies) 1938 All lyrics by Ira Gershwin except where otherwise noted. All orchestrations in Hollywood section by John Green. This program is subject to change. Airm,111111-. THANK YOU PLEASE NOTE The Gershwin Celebration would like to thank the The Gershwin Gala is being videotaped by following people whose contributions have helped WNET/Thirteen and may be exhibited on television to make The Gershwin Gala possible: Louis Aborn, and in other media. Such videotape may include Ronald Blanc, Irving Caesar, Sylvia Craft, Mrs. Ira pictures of the audience or of individuals in the Gershwin, Judy Gershwin, Marc George Gershwin, audience. Your attendance at this performance shall Frankie Gershwin Godowsky, Leopold Gershwin, be deemed your consent to appear in such videotape. Russell Markert, Patricia Mornelli, Yvonne O'Brian, Your cooperation throughout the performance will Michael P. Price, Jamie Ramos, Al Simon, Alfred be greatly appreciated. Stern, Kay Swift, Dorothy Swerdlove. FOR GREAT PERFORMANCES ADDITIONAL CREDITS Executive Producer Jac Venza Production Audio Engineer - David Gotwald Series Producer David Horn American Ballroom Theater costumes designed by Coordinating Producer John Walker Lindsay Davis; Madeline Kahn's gown designed by Production Executive Rhoda Grauer Frank Composto, executed by Tina Fagin; Additional Great Performances is made possible by grants from sound equipment by ProMix, Inc. Exxon, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, The National Endowment for the Arts and Public Television Stations. -7.--"-:=11.11=4011.1.1111101.1-- 1 ARTHUR WHITELAW (Producer) is celebrating showstopping pas de deux in Street Scene for the his 31st year in the theatre as producer, director New York City Opera as well as their current and writer. In 1967 he co-produced the productions of Candide and the Mikado. For film, enormously-successful musical You're A Good Ms. Birch choreographed the dance sequences for Man, Charlie Brown, including 13 national and Grease, James Ivory's Roseland and Zoot Suit, as seven international companies, and the successful well as directing Grease 2. Ms. Birch recently television production for Hallmark Hall of Fame. directed Dance In America's 3X3 with the Alvin Mr. White law's first production, which he co- Ailey Company. Other television credits include produced, was Best Foot Forward, in which Liza staging musical sequences for The Electric Co. as Minnelli and Christopher Walken made their stage well as the new CTW program Square One; chore- debuts. He then went on to produce Cabin in the ographer for Saturday Night Live, The New Show, Sky, Ken Murray's Hollywood, Butterflies Are Free, including the well-known "Dancing in the Dark" The Gingerbead Lady (national company starring satire for Steve Martin and Gilda Radner; other TV Nancy Kelly), Minnie's Boys, 70 Girls 70, P.S. Your work includes specials for Goldie Hawn, Robert Cat Is Dead (starring Sal Mineo and Keir Dullea), Klein and The Academy Awards. In the newer field Snoopy, (the original 1976 production which he also of videos, Ms. Birch has directed and/or directed and co-authored) and, in 1980, co- choreographed pieces for Cyndi Lauper, The produced the critically acclaimed award-winning Rolling Stones, The Oakridge Boys, Olivia Newton musical Strider. Mr. Whitelaw has directed more John and Sister Sledge, among others. Trained at than 20 plays on Broadway, on the road and in the the School of American Ballet and the Martha West End, including road companies of Butterflies Graham School, Ms. Birch became a leading solo- Are Free starring Gloria
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