New York City
The 1959 Broadway Songbook is a musical collage of the 21 musicals that were playing in New York in 1959. Gypsy, The Sound of Music, Fiorello, West Side Story, My Fair Lady, The Music Man, Flower Drum Song, Bells Are Ringing, & Once Upon a Mattress are among the shows in this tribute to what some have called the twilight of the Golden Age of Broadway. Songwriters represented include Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Harold Arlen & Yip Harburg, Leonard Bernstein, Comeden & Green, and Lerner & Loewe.
DIRECTED BY Sara Louise Lazarus
MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Alex Rybeck