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  • Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella and More

    March 1, 2013. Posted by Michael Bourne.

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    Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein created the musical Cinderella for television in 1957. Julie Andrews played the girl with the glass slipper back then. Laura Osnes wears (and loses) the glass slipper now in the first production of Cinderella on Broadway.

    I talked with Ted Chapin, president of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization, about the new Cinderella, about last season's City Center Encores revival of the Rodgers and Hammerstein flop, Pipe Dream, and about Everything Was Possible, Chapin's memoir of his beginnings in the theatre, as a go-fer for the original production of Stephen Sondheim's Follies.

    -- Michael Bourne

    Photo Credit: Carol Rosegg
    Photo Credit: Carol Rosegg

    Songs:

    Cinderella Overture
    South Pacific Overture
    Julie Andrews In My Own Little Corner
    Kaye Ballard & Alice Ghostley The Stepsisters Lament
    Edie Adams & Julie Andrews Impossible
    Will Chase All Kinds of People
    Will Chase & Laura Osnes All At Once You Love Her
    Follies Waiting for the Girls Upstairs
    Ron Raines The Road You Didn't Take
    Jan Maxwell Could I Leave You?
    Laverne Butler In My Own Little Corner

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  • WBGO Travel

    March 1, 2013. Posted by Brandy Wood.

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    Welcome to WBGO Travel! Here, you’ll find out how you can join WBGO for its first-class travel packages to beautiful locations for great concerts, jazz festivals, incredible performances and deluxe tours. Our travel packages offer access to select opportunities and experiences designed exclusively for our guests.

    WBGO Travel packages are available to the Montreal Jazz Festival, The Newport Jazz Festival and Jazz on the Mountain at Mohonk Mountain House listed below. Come back to visit this page for travel package details to Umbria Winter Festival (December).

    Music knows no boundaries, neither does WBGO. Come and travel with us!

    For more information see the listings below or contact WBGO Travel:
    Phone: 973-624-8880 x 269 or Email:  events@WBGO.org

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  • Saxophonist Justin Robinson with Gary Walker

    February 25, 2013. Posted by Tim Wilkins.

    Add new comment | Filed under: gary walker, Interviews

    Saxophonist Justin Robinson talks with WBGO's Morning Jazz host Gary Walker about his new CD release, "In The Spur Of The Moment," and experiences performing with trumpeter Roy Hargrove, singer Abbey Lincoln and the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, among others.

    “In The Spur Of The Moment” is Robinson's first release as a leader in 15 years, and he stopped by to chat with Walker before he joined Hargrove for performances in Jakarta, Indonesia and Japan. Enjoy!

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