Val Diamond (born 1951) is a stage performer and San Francisco icon, best known for her role in which of the world's longest-running musical revue, that began its run in 1974?
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Val Diamond Val Diamond (born 1951) is a stage performer and San Francisco icon. She is best known for her role in the stage musical, "Beach Blanket Babylon".
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Beach Blanket Babylon Steve Silver's Beach Blanket Babylon is the world's longest-running musical revue. The show began its run in 1974, at the Savoy Tivoli and has since moved to the larger Club Fugazi in the North Beach district of San Francisco.
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Charlie's Place "Charlie's Place" written by Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman is a song from the musical "Over Here!", which opened on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre on March 6, 1974. It was successful as a single for Maxene Andrews who debuted the song in the show.
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Children's Theatre Company The Children's Theatre Company (formerly known as The Moppet Players from 1961 to 1965) is a regional theatre established in 1965 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, specializing in plays for families, young audiences and the very young. The theatre is the largest theatre for multigenerational audiences in the United States and is the recipient of 2003 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. The founding is credited to John Clark Donahue and Beth Linnerson. Many productions are adaptations from children's literature including Pippi Longstocking, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, "Cinderella", How The Grinch Stole Christmas, A Year with Frog and Toad and "Alice in Wonderland" that have been in the company's repertoire for many seasons. Among their early premiere productions was Richard Dworsky's musical version of "The Marvelous Land of Oz", which was one of several productions to be issued on video in the early 1980s. The casts themselves are a mix of adult and young adult performers.
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Chu Chin Chow Chu Chin Chow is a musical comedy written, produced and directed by Oscar Asche, with music by Frederic Norton, based (with minor embellishments) on the story of "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves". The piece premièred at His Majesty's Theatre in London on 3 August 1916 and ran for five years and a total of 2,238 performances (more than twice as many as any previous musical), an astonishing record that stood for nearly forty years until "Salad Days". The show's first American production in New York, with additional lyrics by Arthur Anderson, played for 208 performances in 1917–1918, starring Tyrone Power. It subsequently had successful seasons elsewhere in America and Australia, including in 1919, 1920, 1921 and 1922.
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42nd Street (musical) 42nd Street is an American musical with a book by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble, lyrics by Al Dubin and Johnny Mercer, and music by Harry Warren. The 1980 Broadway production, produced by David Merrick, directed by an ailing Gower Champion and orchestrated by Philip J. Lang, won the Tony Award for Best Musical and became a long-running hit. The show was produced in London in 1984 (winning the Olivier Award for Best Musical) and its 2001 Broadway revival won the Tony for Best Revival.
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The Woman in White (musical) The Woman in White is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and David Zippel with a book by Charlotte Jones, based on the novel "The Woman in White" written by Wilkie Collins. It ran for nineteen months in the West End and three months on Broadway, making it one of Lloyd Webber's shortest-running shows.
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The Look of Love (musical) The Look of Love is musical revue of the songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David. The revue was conceived by David Thompson, Scott Ellis, David Loud and Ann Reinking. It had a limited engagement on Broadway in 2003.
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Liza Minnelli Liza May Minnelli ( ; born March 12, 1946) is an American actress and singer. Primarily known for her Academy Award-winning role as Sally Bowles in the 1972 musical film "Cabaret" directed by Bob Fosse, she is noted for her energetic stage presence and her powerful contralto singing voice.
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Club Fugazi The Club Fugazi is a small theater and nightclub located in the North Beach, San Francisco, California district of San Francisco, California. The address is 678 Green Street, although the portion of Green Street in front of the club was renamed Beach Blanket Babylon Boulevard in 1996, in honor of the musical revue that has played at the Club Fugazi since 1974.
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The Most Happy Fella The Most Happy Fella is a 1956 musical with a book, music, and lyrics by Frank Loesser. The story, about a romance between an older man and younger woman, is based on the play "They Knew What They Wanted" by Sidney Howard. The original Broadway production ran for 14 months and it has enjoyed several revivals, including one staged by the New York City Opera.
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The Yama Yama Man "The Yama Yama Man" was a comical song for the Broadway show "The Three Twins", published in 1908 by M. Witmark & Sons with music by Karl Hoschna and lyrics by Collin Davis. It became popular after Bessie McCoy's animated performance in a satin Pierrot clown costume with floppy gloves and a cone hat. At age 20, she became an overnight sensation on Broadway and was known thereafter as the "Yama Yama Girl"; it became her lifelong theme song, the show ran for 288 performances. The lyrics contain topical references of the era such as street cars and ladies' fashion while the refrain is about a comical bogeyman—the Yama Yama Man—who is "ready to spring out at you unaware". Bessie McCoy's song and dance routine was a standard into the 1930s with a prestigious lineage of imitators including Ada Jones, Marilyn Miller, Irene Castle and Ginger Rogers.
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This Year of Grace This Year of Grace is a revue with a book, music, and lyrics by Noël Coward.
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Sunny (musical) Sunny is a musical with music by Jerome Kern and a libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach. The plot involves Sunny, the star of a circus act, who falls for a rich playboy but comes in conflict with his snooty family. This show was the follow-up to the 1920 hit musical "Sally", both starring Marilyn Miller in the title roles, and it was Kern's first musical together with Hammerstein. "Sunny" also became a hit, with its original Broadway production in 1925 running for 517 performances. The London production starred Binnie Hale.
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California Musical Theatre California Musical Theatre is the largest nonprofit arts organization (primarily producing musical theatre) in the state of California and the city of Sacramento's oldest professional performing arts organization. Its summer stock theatre, Music Circus, has been producing Broadway-style musicals since 1951.
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Make It Snappy Make It Snappy was a musical revue that ran for 96 performances at the Winter Garden Theatre in the 1922–23 Broadway season. It ran from 13 April to 1 July 1922.
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South Pacific (musical) South Pacific is a musical composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The work premiered in 1949 on Broadway and was an immediate hit, running for 1,925 performances. The plot of the musical is based on James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 book "Tales of the South Pacific" and combines elements of several of those stories. Rodgers and Hammerstein believed they could write a musical based on Michener's work that would be financially successful and, at the same time, would send a strong progressive message on racism.
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Album musical An album musical is a type of recording that sounds like an original cast album but is created specifically for the recording medium and is complete entertainment product in itself, rather than just promoting or reflecting an existing or planned musical theatre production or revue. Although there has been no one term consistently used to describe this type of recording, the genre predates the use of the term "concept album" by several decades, dating back to the era of 78-rpm records with such original works as Gordon Jenkins' "Manhattan Tower" (1946, expanded in 1956) and "The Letter" (1959) starring Judy Garland, and Stan Freberg's "Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America, Volume One: The Early Years" (1961). On most contemporary concept albums, the performers or bands sing as themselves, whereas on an album musical the performers are playing characters in a story.
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Reva Rice Reva Rice is an American musical theatre actress and singer. She originated the role of Pearl in "Starlight Express" on Broadway, and played the character in the show's 1992 London run. She also played the role on tour in the USA and in Las Vegas.
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Sons o' Fun Sons o' Fun is a musical revue written by the comedy team of Olsen and Johnson, consisting of John "Ole" Olsen and Harold "Chic" Johnson, with music and lyrics by Sammy Fain and Jack Yellen. The revue ran on Broadway from December 1, 1941, through August 29, 1943.
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Peter Pan (1954 musical) Peter Pan is a musical based on J. M. Barrie's 1904 play "Peter Pan" and Barrie's own novelization of it, "Peter and Wendy". The music is mostly by Mark "Moose" Charlap, with additional music by Jule Styne, and most of the lyrics were written by Carolyn Leigh, with additional lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green.
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Zipp! (musical) Zipp!, One Hundred Musicals for Less Than the Price of One, is a musical revue conceived by Gyles Brandreth and Stewart Nicholls. It opened in the West End's Duchess Theatre on February 4, 2003, following previews from January 24. It closed on April 19, 2003.