#jule styne

In the late 1980s, early 1990s, Emily Perl Kingsley, writer for Sesame Street, had written a parody of "Everything's Coming Up Roses" from the 1959 musical Gypsy titled "Everything's Coming Up Noses." Kingsley was inspired to do so as her friend and actress Tyne Daly was in the revival at the time.

However, when Daly told Jule Styne, the writer of the original music for Gypsy, about this he was "outraged that somebody was making fun of his song and couldn’t see the humor in it." As such, it never came to fruition that Tyne Daly would perform the song on the show.

In the end, however, it was Harvey Fierstein who ended up singing the song for an episode of Sesame Street in 2004.

Source:

Green, Josh. "Muppets Gone Missing: Emily Kingsley." Graphic Policy, July 16, 2015. https://graphicpolicy.com/2015/07/16/muppets-gone-missing-emily-kingsley/

Anchors Aweigh premiered in New York City on 19 July 1945.

Very loosely based on Natalie Marcin's 1943 short story, "You Can't Fool a Marine," Anchors Aweigh was a hit at the box office and was nominated for 5 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Gene Kelly), Best Cinematography - Color (Charles Boyle and Robert Planck), and Best Song ("I Fall in Love Too Easily" by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne, sung by Frank Sinatra). It received an Oscar for Best Score (Georgie Stoll).

New music scores have been added to my collection.

Gypsy — Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim

Cabaret — Fred Ebb and John Kander

The Styne/Charlap musical of Peter Pan starring Mary Martin premiered just a year after the Disney version, while Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, which was produced in part as an attempt to copy Peter Pan's success, premiered seven years after Disney's.

Both live action musicals are in some ways more faithful to their respective source materials than the Disney versions. Yet I feel as if traces of their Disney predecessors exist in both of them.

Both versions of Peter Pan include an ecstatic song about flying when Peter and the Darling children soar away to Neverland ("You Can Fly!"/"I'm Flying"), a celebration song with the Indians after Peter comes back from rescuing Tiger Lily ("What Makes the Red Man Red?"/"Ugg-a-Wugg"), a lullaby about a mother's care that makes the boys homesick ("Your Mother and Mine"/"Distant Melody"), and an ode to Captain Hook sung by the pirates after Wendy and the boys are captured ("The Elegant Captain Hook"/"Captain Hook's Waltz"). Of course the Broadway musical has many more songs than the Disney version, but four of the Disney version's six songs have exact counterparts in the musical.