#Stephen Flaherty

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[lucimiir]

So I was watching a video about overlapping melodies in musicals and remembering how BRILLIANT Quartet at the Ballet from Broadway Anastasia is.

Not only is it a very nicely done example of grand polyphonic pieces in musicals where the characters are singing separate melodies that come from earlier in the show (think tonight quintet or one day more), they’re singing just the tunes of those earlier themes, with unique lyrics. In addition, the music ALSO flawlessly works in the theme from Swan Lake, AND the action happening on the stage of the ballet reflects the characters’ conflicts (which this post talks about in detail)

Anyways it’s just a really cool song and shout out to Stephen flaherty for some great composition.

Here’s the video if you want to check it out:

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2024 Broadway Backwards - Alex Newell performs Back To Before from the musical Ragtime

[cityoftheangelllls]

“Couldn’t hear no music, couldn’t see no light,

Mama, she was frightened, crazy from the fright!

Tears without no comfort, screams without no sound!

Only darkness and pain!

The anger and pain!

The blood and the pain!

I buried my heart in the ground!

In the ground!

When I buried you in the ground…”

Commissions info

[onewordshy]

Alex Newell sings "Back To Before" from Ragtime

Not in love with some of the phrasing choices here but that ending!

[greaterstokesawareness]

Collection: Brian Stokes Mitchell and the original cast reunite for the 25th Anniversary Ragtime Reunion Concert at Minskoff Theater, March 27, 2023

photos and video from Broadway World (x), and from Playbill (x)

review on Playbill.org (x)

short clips from the show on Entertainment Community Fund YouTube (x)

video of curtain call (x)

behind the scenes video at rehearsals (x)

video of Stokes and Audra McDonald performing "Wheels of a Dream" on the Today Show leading up to the concert (x) (x)

clip of "Wheels of a Dream" from the Today Show from Al Roker's Instagram (x)

article "Ragtime Reunion Concert Was Filmed According to Lyricist Lynn Ahrens" on Broadway World (x)

article "On the Wheels of a Dream: The Making of Broadway’s Ragtime" on Playbill.org (x)

article announcing the concert and cast on Broadway World (x)

concert announcement video from Entertainment Community Fund YouTube, December 2022 (x)

video of Stokes discussing the concert on Morning Joe after the show (x)

Stokes interview and video before the show on Broadway World (x)

audio of "Wheels of a Dream" (x)

audio of "New Music" (x)

full show audio (x)

[libraryfag]

speaking of important questions about musical composers why are so many of them called stephen. sondheim, flaherty, schwartz etc. whats up with that

[music-in-my-veins14]

The parade travelled on With the sun in my eyes you were gone But I knew even then In a crowd of thousands I'd find you again

[disneyprincessconcertfans]

Because I am so excited to see Christy Altomare perform with "Disney Princess - The Concert" this Fall I thought I'd share a 2017 video when she performed at her alma mater, the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. She performed "Journey to the Past" with the CCM Symphony. This was just 2 months before she began her Broadway run in "Anastasia". Coincidentally, she performed there again this year in a concert honoring fellow CCM graduate and "Anastasia" composer Stephen Flaherty.

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'A Man of No Importance' at CSC a Superb Revival

‘A Man of No Importance’ at CSC a Superb Revival

Jim Parsons (center) and the Company of A Man of No Importance (courtesy of Julieta Cervantes) In its second Off Broadway go-round (Lincoln Center in 2002) Terrence McNally’s book and Stephen Flaherty’s music with Lynn Ahrens’ lyrics of A Man of No Importance directed and designed by John Doyle, is currently at CSC until 18 of December. The production is Doyle’s unaffecting and warm goodbye as…

[doyouknowthismusical]

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My Petersburg - GERMAN

Show: Anastasia Authors: Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty Original title: My Petersburg Language: German Translator: Wolfgang Adenberg

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Mein Petersburg

Ich wuchs auf, ganz allein in der Gosse und dem Dreck von Petersburg. Lebte mich sehr schnell ein und nichts kriegte mich hier klein, in Petersburg. Ich schlief an Straßenecken, klaute mir mein Brot und mir half mein Köpfchen aus jeder Not. Denn wenn du hier nicht schlau bist, bist du garantiert bald tot. So ist das! Viele hier kommen durch, viele nicht. Vielen bläst kalter Wind ins Gesicht. Doch nicht mir, das ist hier mein Petersburg. (Komm Anja!) Sieh dich um, meilenweit von den Türmen zu den Piers von Petersburg. Ich stand oft dort am Kai mit gestohl‘nen Souvenirs aus Petersburg. Die Schlösser auf dem Berg die Gassen um mich her irgendwann erdrückt dich die Stadt nicht mehr. Du kannst sie noch so hassen und du liebst sie doch so sehr. Denn alles was ich weiß, was ich hab fing hier an und das Kind wurde hier zu dem Mann, der ich bin und sein kann. Ja, wir können im Leben auf and’re vertrau’n doch ich lernte von Vater nach vorne zu schau’n Nichts kann mich hier halten, nichts wird hier vermisst, seltsam wie bereit du bist wenn dir deine Stadt sagt, dass es Zeit zum fortgeh’n ist. Und darum wissen wir, unser Weg ist noch weit du und ich brechen auf, es ist Zeit. Doch heut Nacht zieht der Blick uns in den Bann Mein Petersburg, schau es dir an.

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2002, Rosie O'Donnell Show - LaChanze performs Waiting For Life from the musical Once On This Island

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Ragtime: Play Review

Terrence Mcnally’s musical masterpiece “Ragtime” at theatreworks in Mountain View, based on adaptation of Doctorow’s incisive novel, is directed by Theatreworks’ founder, Robert Kelly with haunting music by Stephen Flaherty and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens.  Doctorow’s sweeping semi-historical novel centers around the 1908 to 1913 time frame when the American dream was just taking shape; a time when…

[onewordshy]

I have not seen a single other person mention it in the ten years since its release but I thought the movie version of Lucky Stiff was pretty okay. This song was definitely the best scene though, "Nice" is one of my favorite Flaherty and Ahrens songs and these two sound great on it. They never released the soundtrack so I'm ripping it and posting it here for easier access.