#classic Broadway

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Here are 10 things you should know about Cary Grant, born 120 years ago today. For many, he’s the ultimate Hollywood leading man, and who are we to argue?

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“The Sound of Music” premiered at Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 16,1959, where it ran for more than 1,443 performances. Mary Martin headed a cast that also included Theodore Bikel and Patricia Neway. #OnThisDay

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For the classic Broadway - Mary Martin fans out there, stay tuned for some AMAZING new finds.

Here we have Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel (as Maria and the Captain) dancing the Laendler, in the original Broadway of Rodgers & Hammerstein's The Sound of Music. 1959.

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Fred Astaire BROADWAY MELODY OF 1940 (1940) dir. Norman Taurog

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Judy Garland & Liza Minnelli, 1964 [colorized]

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Bernadette Peters

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The parallels my mind is making from Anya to Mamoru. A.k.a Princess Anastasia and Prince Endymion:

Teenage orphans with lack of identity due to memory loss.

Growing up having dreams every night connected to a life they used to have where they were royalty until their kingdoms fell to war and rebellion:

Music box that triggers their memories:

Context: I ended up having a lot of songs from the Anastasia musical on my playlist and one of the songs In My Dreams is just feeding my Mamo brainrot because, change a few lines and he could sing this.

[Diaclaimer, I haven't watched the musical but judging from the songs, I'd say it does not end the same way the movie does, so the parallel I'm making is mostly referring to the Don Bluth film with exception of this song from Broadway]

First verse:

'They said I was found

By the side of a road

There were tracks all around

It had recently snowed

In the darkness and cold

The wind in the trees

A girl with no name

And no memories, but these

Rain against a window

Sheets upon a bed

Terrifying nurses

Whispering overhead

“Call the child Anya

Give the child a hat”

I don’t know a thing before that'

Mamoru parallel:

Woke up in a hospital at age 6, doesn't recall his name or parents, nurses trying to figure out what to do with him.

Then this verse:

'You don’t know what it’s like

Not to know who you are

To have lived in the shadows

And travel this far

I’ve seen flashes of fire

Heard the echos of screams

But I still have this faith

In the truth of my dreams

In my dreams

It’s all real

And my heart has so much to reveal

And my dreams

Seem to say

“Don’t be afraid to go on

Don’t give up hope

Come what may”

I know it all will come back

One day'

Mamoru parallel: Do I need to explain? He's definitely had these very words going through his mind for the last 10 years of his life.

And then the parallels between Usa and Mamo and Dimitri and Anya:

Don't get along with their love interest at first:

They fall in love as they "search for" a missing princess:

Love interest turns out to be someone they knew from their past:

They regain their memories, decide to give up royalty in favor of a life with love interest. (Give or take 100 years in Usamamo's case)

But also Anastasia is just a movie I've loved since I was a kid. And I'm honestly just really intrigued by the story and how a mystery from real life history, has turned into a beloved fictional romance.

The Sailor Moon parallel is just my mental illness 💀

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Bessie Love and Anita Page in The Broadway Melody 1929

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Some of the many facades of Broadway high street

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Here are 10 things you should know about Edward G. Robinson, born 130 years ago today. He was a much more versatile actor than he is perhaps given credit for today.

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"An evening of sheer theatrical enchantment," wrote Robert Garland in the Journal-American of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel, which opened on April 19, 1945 at the Majestic Theater.

After the huge success of Oklahoma! two years earlier, the new musical was the most eagerly awaited theatrical event of the season. But, despite superficial similarities, Carousel was darker than Oklahoma!, with an onstage suicide, an unsympathetic leading man, and domestic violence. Tellingly, it ran for less than half the number of performances of the earlier, sunnier show (890 as opposed to 2,212). But many critics have since acclaimed it as Rodgers & Hammerstein's greatest work.

Above, Jan Clayton and John Raitt (the latter, then unknown, making his sensational Broadway debut), the original Julie Jordan and Billy Bigelow, in the show's opening scene.

Photo: Associated Press

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Harry's Gone Rogue! - Jonathan Sayer's Favorite PPGW Memory

from Mischief's instagram

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Fred Astaire swoons over Eleanor Powell in Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940) dir. Norman Taurog

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All you gotta do is say my name…

I may be late to the beetle wagon in terms of drawing proper fan art but I have loved this mayhem filled maniac for years!

I really had fun playing around with colors here, one fun concept the musical brought in that I adored!

~Spooki🖤

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Reblog for a bigger sample size - for bonus points tag your favorite musical(s) that didn't win this decade but maybe should have!

Polls for other decades

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Judy Garland & daughter Liza Minnelli

Judy & Liza, at 41 & 43 years old