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The musical Mame is based on the 1955 novel Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis and a 1956 Broadway play.
The story is of an eccentric woman, Mame Dennis, who has her bohemian lifestyle interrupted by her newly orphaned nephew joining her in New York City.
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The musical Man of La Mancha is adapted from Dale Wasserman's non-musical 1959 play I, Don Quixote, that was inspired by Miguel de Cervantes's seventeenth century masterpiece Don Quixote. The musical, a play within a play, has Cervantes telling story of a “mad” knight, Don Quixote, as he and his fellow prisoners await a hearing with the Spanish Inquisition.
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The musical Mary Poppins was first produced by the Disney company as a film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke in 1964, then as a stage musical in 2004. The story is based on a series of children's books by P. L. Travers about an English nanny, Mary Poppins, who “pops-in” to take care of the Banks children.
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The Merry Widow is an operetta by composer Franz Lehár, first staged 1905 in Vienna.
An English adaptationm starring Lily Elsie, was staged in London, and another Broadway production, also ran in 1907.
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The Moulin Rouge! (2002) plot is based on the opera La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi, using well-known popular music. The film won Oscars for art direction and costume design.
The 1952 movie Moulin Rouge follows the life of artist Henri Toulouse-Lautrec.
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My Fair Lady (1956)
My Fair Lady was a musical with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. Based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, the show was a smash Broadway hit (1956) and award winning movie musical (1964).
• #8 All Time Greatest Movie Musical, AFI
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The Music Man
Meredith Willson
b. 5-18-1902; Mason City, IA
d. 6-15-1984
Did you know? The Music Man cast recording won the first Grammy?
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