2/28/2024 0 Comments Pajama sam 1 music![]() ![]() Jessica Hendy will star as Donna Sheriden. To be able to be sustained for that long, we just decided they were just that good.” ![]() They wrote great songs that our ears wanted to hear at the time, what we wanted to feel at the time. And yet it’s still poignant and touching. “That’s what’s charming and compelling and makes you laugh. “The thing about ‘Mamma Mia!’, which I think separates it from all others, is that you know they are winking and nodding at you from the stage when they are going through this book and when they are going to the next song,” he says. Mann says “Mamma Mia!” and its soundtrack continues to resonate with audiences. 2 on the Billboard all-time album Top 200 chart, and “Frozen” at No. Film soundtracks continue on the hit lists with “The Sound of Music,” ranked at No. ![]() In the mid-1950s, the emergence of rock ‘n’ roll changed the music industry, as it took over as the major genre on the pop music charts. Mann notes that after the arrival of broadcast radio in the early 20th century, popular music heard on the airwaves was most often songs that originated from stage and film productions written by Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, or Rogers and Hammerstein, the creators of what became known as the Great American Songbook. I think we have to figure out maybe a different way to describe musicals that have come along and certainly come out of recorded sources music, a la jukebox.” Sometimes it succeeds and sometimes they don’t succeed. ![]() Then they tried to put a book, a libretto around all these songs and have it make sense. “The music came out of source material that’s already been written. Terrence Mann, the Broadway veteran who is artistic director of the Nutmeg Summer and is directing CRT’s “Mamma Mia!” isn’t comfortable with the label: “To me, when you say a jukebox musical, it’s almost pejorative, like you’re dissing it,” he says. Last year, nine new jukebox musicals opened on Broadway, including “The Cher Show” and “Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations.” In the 21st century, more than 85 jukebox musicals have opened on Broadway, showcasing the music of artists such as Hank Williams, Janis Joplin, The Four Seasons, Bob Dylan, Carole King, David Bowie, and Frank Sinatra. These were followed in 1984 by “Leader of the Pack,” with the music of the 1960s Brill Building pop songwriting team of Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry (“Be My Baby,” “Chapel of Love”), and in 1995 by “Smokey Joe’s Café,” the music of 1950s hit makers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller (“Hound Dog,” “Yakety Yak”). Two early jukebox stage musicals in the mid-1970s were “The Night That Made America Famous,” based on the music of storyteller Harry Chapin, and “Beatlemania,” the musical revue of The Beatles. Previously, it had had a successful run in London’s West End, where it was first performed in 1999. “Mamma Mia!” is regarded as a jukebox musical – a film or stage show that features the songs of a popular band – and the show is generally considered to have launched the surge of the genre after its opening on Broadway in 2001. Jamie Colburn (Bill) and Jennifer Cody (Rosie) in Mamma Mia! (Gerry Goodstein for UConn)ĪBBA’s energetic music is central to the popularity of the show, which takes its name from a track on the group’s eponymous 1976 second album and has 11 of their chart hits among the 22 songs in the production, including the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band’s No. ![]()
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