A Grand Night for Singing

Taste and imagination, the two key ingredients for a first-rate revue, abound in A Grand Night for Singing — this fresh take on the Rodgers & Hammerstein canon. Over three decades after the duo’s final collaboration, The Sound of Music, took the Great White Way by storm, it was this new R&H musical that opened the 1994 Broadway season with flair and distinction, garnering wildly enthusiastic notices as well as earning two Tony nominations, including Best Musical.

You’ve probably never imagined “Shall We Dance?” as a comic pas de deux for a towering beauty and her diminuitive admirer, nor suspect that one day a lovelorn young lad might pose the musical question, “How do you solve a problem like Maria?” But that is precisely the kind of invention lavished upon this new revue, with innovative musical arrangements that leave no question about how terrifically up-to-date the remarkable songs of Rodgers & Hammerstein remain. It’s “Something Wonderful”!