August 8, 2011
Melinda Schneider is following the chart success of her 2010 album ‘Melinda does Doris‘ with her new show ‘Doris Day – So Much More Than The Girl Next Door’. The show is a heart-felt homage, co-written by Schneider with musical theatre scribe, David Mitchell (Dusty, Shout!). It opened with great success in Adelaide this June and will commence ...
August 5, 2011
The acclaimed British musical production ‘A Sentimental Journey: The Story Of Doris Day’ has announced new dates which includes the El Portal Theatre in California (USA). The show – part stage drama & musical extravaganza – is written by Adam Rolston and directed by Emmy Award-winning Alvin Rakoff . It brings to life the ‘on ...
June 4, 2010
Top hat, tails and icons of the silver screen have always stirred my imagination. Astaire, with or without Ginger, used the outfit as the perfect extension of his screen persona, whilst no one donned it as glamorously or perversely as the ambivalent Marlene Dietrich in her movies. Then there was Doris Day!… The up-and-coming Warner ...
Tags: 1950s, Calamity Jane, Film, Gordon MacRae, musical, Warner Bros.Features
May 29, 2010
Aaron Edward (Hotch) Hotchner, the man behind Doris Day’s ONLY official biography “Her Own Story” (published in 1975/6) revealed in an interview this week with The New York Times how he is picking up his pen to work on a new Broadway musical about the life of darling Doris. “….I’m working on a musical about ...
February 11, 1963
US Release Date: 11 February 1963 [ Shop @ amazon.com aStore ] Colonel Buffalo Bill (Leonard Stokes) (Irving Berlin) I’m A Bad, Bad Man (Robert Goulet) (Irving Berlin) Doin’ What Comes Naturally (Doris Day) (Irving Berlin) The Girl That I Marry (Robert Goulet) (Irving Berlin) You Can’t Get A Man with A Gun (Doris Day) ...
December 6, 1962
US Release Date: 06 December 1962 [ Shop @ amazon.com aStore ] Doris Day — Kitty Wonder Stephen Boyd — Sam Rawlins Jimmy Durante — Pop Wonder Martha Raye — Lulu Dean Jagger — John Noble This Rogers and Hart musical revolves around a debt-ridden circus and the struggle to save it. The popularity of ...
November 12, 1962
US Release Date: 12 November 1962 [ Shop @ amazon.com aStore ] The Circus is on Parade (Doris Day, Jimmy Durante & Martha Raye) (Lorenz Hart/Richard Rodgers) Over and Over Again (Doris Day) (Lorenz Hart/Richard Rodgers) Why Can’t I? (Doris Day & Martha Raye) (Lorenz Hart/Richard Rodgers) Listen This Can’t Be Love (Doris Day) (Lorenz ...
July 11, 1960
US Release Date: 11 July 1960 [ Shop @ amazon.com aStore ] Show Time [Part One] (Joe Lubin) I Got the Sun in the Morning [1960 remake] [from the musical Annie Get Your Gun] (Irving Berlin) Ohio [from the musical Wonderful Town] (Betty Comden/Adolph Green/Leonard Bernstein) I Love Paris [from the musical Can Can] (Cole ...
October 20, 1958
US Release Date: 20 October 1958 (Double LP) US Release Date: 19 January 1959 (Volume 1 & 2) [ Shop @ amazon.com aStore ] Volume One Hooray for Hollywood [from the film Hollywood Hotel] (Johnny Mercer/Richard Whiting) Cheek to Cheek [from the film Top Hat] (Irving Berlin) It’s Easy to Remember [from the film Mississippi] ...
August 29, 1957
US Release Date: 29 August 1957 [ Shop @ amazon.com aStore ] Doris Day — Katie ‘Babe’ Williams, Grievance Committee John Raitt — Sid Sorokin, Sleep Tite Superintendent Carol Haney — Gladys Hotchkiss, Hasler’s Secretary Eddie Foy Jr. — Vernon Hines, Sleep Tite Vice President Reta Shaw — Mabel, Sorokin’s Secretary Barbara Nichols — Poopsie ...
