Today, The Grandma has visited an oldfriend, Barbra Streisand,who lives in NewYork City.
Together, they have enjoyed a great musical in Broadway, Cats, by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the 1939 poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats written by T. S. Eliot.
Cats is a sung-through musical composedby Andrew LloydWebber, based on the1939poetry collection Old Possum's Bookof Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot.
It tells the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellicles and the night they make the Jellicle choice by deciding which cat will ascend to the Heaviside layer and come back to a new life.
As of 2022, Cats remains the fourth-longest-running Broadway show and the sixth-longest-running West End show.
Lloyd Webber
began setting Eliot's poems to music in 1977, and the compositions were
first presented as a song cycle in 1980. Producer Cameron Mackintosh
then recruited director Trevor Nunn and choreographer Gillian Lynne to
turn the songs into a complete musical. Cats opened to
positive reviews at the New London Theatre in the West End in 1981 and
then to mixed reviews at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway in 1982.
It won numerous awards including Best Musical at both the Laurence Olivier and Tony Awards.
Despite
its unusual premise that deterred investors initially, the musical
turned out to be an unprecedented commercial success, with a worldwide
gross of US$3.5 billion by 2012.
The London production ran for 21
years and 8,949 performances, while the Broadway production ran for 18
years and 7,485 performances, making Cats the longest-running musical in both theatre districts for a number of years.
Cats has since been revived in the West End twice and on Broadway once. It has also been translated into multiple languages and performed around the world many times.
Cats started the megamusical phenomenon, establishing a global market for musical theatre
and directing the industry's focus to big-budget blockbusters, as well
as family- and tourist-friendly shows. The musical's profound but
polarising influence also reshaped the aesthetic, technology, and
marketing of the medium.
Cats was adapted into a direct-to-video film in 1998, and a feature film directed by Tom Hooper in 2019.
Memory is a show tune composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with lyrics by Trevor Nunn based on poems by T. S. Eliot.
It was written for the 1981 musical Cats,
where it is sung primarily by the character Grizabella as a melancholic
remembrance of her glamorous past and as a plea for acceptance.
Memory is the climax of the musical
and by far its best-known song, having achieved mainstream success
outside of the musical. According to musicologist Jessica Sternfeld,
writing in 2006, it is by some estimations the most successful song ever from a musical.
Memory was named the Best Song Musically and Lyrically at the 1982 Ivor Novello Awards.
Memory, all alone in the moonlight I can dream of the old days Life was beautiful then I remember the time I knew what happiness was Let the memory live again.
Today, The Grandma has visited an old friend, Barbra Streisand,who is celebrating her 80th anniversary in New York City.
Together, they have enjoyed a great musical in Broadway, Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the 1939 poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats written by T. S. Eliot.
Cats is a sung-through musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the 1939 poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot.
It tells the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellicles and the night they make the Jellicle choice by deciding which cat will ascend to the Heaviside layer and come back to a new life.
As of 2022, Cats remains the fourth-longest-running Broadway show and the sixth-longest-running West End show.
Lloyd Webber began setting Eliot's poems to music in 1977, and the compositions were first presented as a song cycle in 1980. Producer Cameron Mackintosh then recruited director Trevor Nunn and choreographer Gillian Lynne to turn the songs into a complete musical. Cats opened to positive reviews at the New London Theatre in the West End in 1981 and then to mixed reviews at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway in 1982.
It won numerous awards including Best Musical at both the Laurence Olivier and Tony Awards.
Despite its unusual premise that deterred investors initially, the musical turned out to be an unprecedented commercial success, with a worldwide gross of US$3.5 billion by 2012.
The London production ran for 21 years and 8,949 performances, while the Broadway production ran for 18 years and 7,485 performances, making Cats the longest-running musical in both theatre districts for a number of years.
Cats has since been revived in the West End twice and on Broadway once. It has also been translated into multiple languages and performed around the world many times.
Cats started the megamusical phenomenon, establishing a global market for musical theatre and directing the industry's focus to big-budget blockbusters, as well as family- and tourist-friendly shows. The musical's profound but polarising influence also reshaped the aesthetic, technology, and marketing of the medium.
Cats was adapted into a direct-to-video film in 1998, and a feature film directed by Tom Hooper in 2019.
Memory is a show tune composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with lyrics by Trevor Nunn based on poems by T. S. Eliot.
It was written for the 1981 musical Cats, where it is sung primarily by the character Grizabella as a melancholic remembrance of her glamorous past and as a plea for acceptance.
Memory is the climax of the musical and by far its best-known song, having achieved mainstream success outside of the musical. According to musicologist Jessica Sternfeld, writing in 2006, it is by some estimations the most successful song ever from a musical.
Memory was named the Best Song Musically and Lyrically at the 1982 Ivor Novello Awards.
Memory, all alone in the moonlight I can dream of the old days Life was beautiful then I remember the time I knew what happiness was Let the memory live again.
Today, The Grandma has been listening to one of her favourite singers, Barbra Streisand the Americansinger and actress, who was born on a day like today in 1942.
Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is an American singer and actress.
With a career spanning over six decades, she has achieved success in multiple fields of entertainment, and is among the few performers awarded an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT).
Streisand began her career by performing in nightclubs and Broadway theaters in the early 1960s. Following her guest appearances on various television shows, she signed to Columbia Records, insisting that she retain full artistic control, and accepting lower pay in exchange, an arrangement that continued throughout her career, and released her debut The Barbra Streisand Album (1963), which won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
Throughout her recording career, Streisand has topped the US Billboard 200 chart with 11 albums -a record for a woman- including People (1964), The WayWe Were (1974), Guilty (1980), and The Broadway Album (1985).
She also achieved five number-one singles on the US Billboard Hot 100 -The WayWe Were, Evergreen, You Don't Bring Me Flowers, No More Tears (Enough IsEnough), and Woman in Love.
Following her established recording success in the 1960s, Streisand ventured into film by the end of that decade.
She starred in the critically acclaimed Funny Girl (1968), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Additional fame followed with films including the extravagant musical Hello, Dolly! (1969), the screwball comedy What's Up, Doc? (1972), and the romantic drama The Way We Were (1973).
Streisand won a second Academy Award for writing the love theme from A StarIs Born (1976), the first woman to be honored as a composer. With the release of Yentl (1983), Streisand became the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major studio film.
The film won an Oscar for Best Score and a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Musical. Streisand also received the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, becoming the first (and for 37 years, the only) woman to win that award. Streisand later directed The Prince of Tides (1991) and The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996).
Streisand was born on April 24, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York City, the daughter of Diana Ida and Emanuel Streisand. Her mother had been a soprano in her youth and considered a career in music, but later became a school secretary. Her father was a high school teacher at the same school, where they first met.
Streisand's family was Jewish. Her paternal grandparents emigrated from Galicia (Poland-Ukraine) and her maternal grandparents from the Russian Empire, where her grandfather had been a cantor.
Streisand began her education at the Jewish Orthodox Yeshiva ofBrooklyn when she was five. She was considered bright and inquisitive about everything; however, she lacked discipline, often shouting answers to questions out of turn. She next entered Public School 89 in Brooklyn, and during those early school years began watching television and going to movies.
Streisand accepted her first role on the New York stage in Another Evening withHarry Stoones, a satirical comedy play in which she acted and sang two solos.
Streisand's first television appearance was on The Tonight Show, then credited to its usual host Jack Paar. She was seen during an April 1961 episode on which Orson Bean substituted for Paar. She sang Harold Arlen's A Sleepin' Bee.
When she was 21, Streisand signed a contract with Columbia Records that gave her full creative control, in exchange for less money.
Streisand has recorded 50 studio albums, almost all with Columbia Records.
Streisand possesses a mezzo-soprano vocal range.
Streisand changed her name from Barbara to Barbra because, she said, I hated the name, but I refused to change it.
Streisand has been nominated 43 times for a Grammy Award, winning eight. In addition, she has received two special non-competitive awards; the 1992 Grammy Legend Award and the 1994 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. She has also been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame four times.
In 2011, she was honored as MusiCares Person of the Year by the Grammy Foundation for her artistic achievement in the music industry.
The Grandma is still in Brussels. She is enjoying the city, its people and its amazing culture. Today, she has decided to know more things about Jacques Brel,one of the most popular Belgian singers of all times and one of The Grandma's favouriteone, too.
Jacques Romain Georges Brel (8 April 1929-9 October 1978) was a Belgian singer, songwriter, poet, actor and director who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following -initially in Belgium and France- later throughout the world. He is considered a master of the modern chanson.
Although he recorded most of his songs in French and occasionally in Dutch, he became an influence on English-speaking songwriters and performers, such as Scott Walker, David Bowie, Alex Harvey, Marc Almond and Rod McKuen. English translations of his songs were recorded by many performers, including: Bowie; Walker, Ray Charles; Judy Collins; John Denver; The Kingston Trio; Nina Simone; Shirley Bassey; Frank Sinatra and Andy Williams.
Brel was a successful actor, appearing in 10 films. He directed two films, one of which, Le Far West, was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1973. Having sold over 25 million records worldwide, Brel is the third best-selling Belgian recording artist of all time.
Brel married Thérèse "Miche" Michielsen in 1950, and the couple had three children. He also had a romantic relationship with actress and dancer Maddly Bamy from 1972 until his death in 1978.
Jacques Romain Georges
Brel was born on 8 April 1929 in Schaerbeek, Brussels, to Élisabeth
"Lisette" and Romain Brel. He came from a family of Flemish descent, who
had adopted the French language; part of his family originated in
Zandvoorde, near Ypres.
Jacques Brel
His father worked for Cominex, an import–export firm, and later became co-director of a company that manufactured cardboard. Jacques and his older brother Pierre grew up in an austere household, and attended a Catholic primary school, École Saint-Viateur, run by the order of Saint Viator.
Remembered as a courteous and manageable pupil, Brel did well in reading and writing, but struggled through arithmetic and Dutch. The boys were also members of the local Boy Scouts troop, enjoyed their time at summer camp and on family outings to the North Sea coast.
In Brussels, the family lived at 138 Avenue du Diamant in Schaerbeek, then moved to 26 Boulevard Belgica in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, and finally settled at 7 Rue Jacques-Manne in Anderlecht. Brel was close to his mother, fascinated by her generosity and sense of humour, which he inherited.
In September 1941, his
parents enrolled Brel at the Institut Saint-Louis at rue du Marais near
the Botanical Garden of Brussels. Although he did poorly in many
subjects, he did well in history and French, and showed a talent for
writing. He helped set up the school's drama club, taking on his first
stage roles with great enthusiasm. He wrote short stories, poems, and
essays.
In 1944, at the age of 15, Brel began playing the guitar. The following year he formed his own theatre group with friends and began writing plays. In the spring of 1947, during his final year at Saint-Louis, Brel wrote a short story titled Frédéric for a school magazine Le Grand Feu. Published pseudonymously, the story is about a man on his death bed who encourages his grandson to run away while the rest of the family makes arrangements for his funeral. Despite his growing talent for writing, Brel was not a good student, and failed many of his exams.
With an academic career not in his future, the 18-year-old Brel went to work at his father's cardboard factory in August 1947. His job at Vanneste and Brel was predictable and uninspiring -a routine that involved fixing prices and meeting customers. Apart from joining the
company football team, he showed little interest in the company's social
activities and events. Perhaps to offset the boredom of his daily
office routine, he joined a local Catholic youth organisation La Franche
Cordée (FC), which had as its motto, More is within you.
Dedicated to philanthropic work,
the group organised religious retreats, fundraising events, and food
and clothing deliveries to orphanages and old people's homes.
Jacques Brel
Brel supported these activities with great enthusiasm and believed strongly in FC's mission. His parents were pleased with their son's dedication, and provided him with the company van and family car to support his FC activities.
In June 1948, Brel enlisted for military service, did his basic training in Limbourg, and served as a corporal in the Belgian air force stationed at Groenveld barracks in Zellik near Brussels. Throughout his military service, Brel was still able to attend FC meetings. While working at FC, Brel met his future wife, Thérèse Michielsen, known to her friends as "Miche".
On 1 June 1950, Jacques and Miche were married at Laeken, a suburb of the City of Brussels. On 6 December 1951, Miche gave birth to their first daughter, Chantal.
In 1952 Brel began
writing songs and performing them at family gatherings and on Brussels'
cabaret circuit. His family and friends were not supportive of his stark
lyrics and violent, emotional performances. That year he performed on a
local radio station for the first time.
In January 1953, Brel performed at the cabaret La Rose Noire in Brussels. In February he signed a contract with Philips Records and recorded his first 78 rpm record, Il Y A, which was released in March. The talent scout and artistic director at the record company, Jacques Canetti, invited him to move to Paris.
Despite his family's objections and the added pressure of raising a second daughter, France, born on 12 July, he left Brussels for Paris in the autumn of 1953. In Paris Brel worked hard to get his career off the ground. He stayed at the Hotel Stevens and gave guitar lessons to artist-dancer Francesco Frediani to pay his rent. He found work on the cabaret circuit at venues such as L'Écluse, L'Échelle de Jacob, and in Jacques Canetti's cabaret Les Trois Baudets.
In 1954 Brel competed in
the music contest Grand Prix de la Chanson in Knokke-le-Zoute,
finishing a disappointing 27th out of 28 participants. One positive
result of the experience was that the French star Juliette Gréco
requested to sing one of Brel's songs, Le diable (Ça va), at her
up-and-coming concert at the prestigious Olympia music-hall. She went on
to record the song that spring.
Jacques Brel
In July 1954, Brel made his first appearance at the prestigious Olympia Theatre in Paris.
Later that summer, he embarked on his first French tour, appearing on the bill with French singers Dario Moreno, Philippe Clay, and Catherine Sauvage. By the end of the year, Philips released his debut album, a nine-song, 10-inch LP called Jacques Brel et ses Chansons. In February 1955, Brel met Georges "Jojo" Pasquier, who would become the singer's closest friend, manager, and personal chauffeur. He began singing with a number of Christian associations, which later led to his nickname of Abbé "Abbot" Brel. In March Brel's wife and children joined him in France and the family settled in the Paris suburb of Montreuil-sous-Bois at the rue du Moulin à vent. In June he toured France again with Canetti's show Les Filles de Papa, which included Françoise Dorin, Perrette Souplex, and Suzanne Gabriello.
In March 1956, Brel
performed in North Africa, Amsterdam, Lausanne, and throughout Belgium.
In July, while visiting Grenoble, he met François Rauber, a classical
pianist who would become his accompanist on future recordings. Rauber
played a major role in providing Brel with the formal musical training
he was lacking and was responsible for Brel's musical arrangements.
The year 1964 brought a
mix of personal tragedies and professional triumphs. On 8 January,
Brel's father, Romain, died of bronchial pneumonia. Only two months
later, on 7 March, his mother Élisabeth, nicknamed Mouky, also died. At
the same time, he was given the Gold Medal of Brussels from the Tourist
Information Bureau and won a prize from the Société d’Auteurs
Belge/Belgische Auteurs Maatschappij (SABAM). He was also awarded the
French Academy's Grand Prix du Disque. He continued his ambitious
touring schedule.
By the end of the year, he released a new live album, Enregistrement Public à l'Olympia 1964. That year, he discovered a new passion, aviation. After taking flying lessons with Paul Lepanse, he purchased a small plane.
In the United States,
his audience was growing. American poet and singer Rod McKuen began
translating Brel's songs into English, and the Kingston Trio recorded
one of his English versions on their Time to Think album, Seasons in
the Sun, based on Brel's Le Moribond.
In January 1967, Brel
finished recording songs for a new studio album, Jacques Brel 67, which
was released later in the year. The album included Mon Enfance, Fils
de..., Les bonbons 67, and La Chanson des vieux amants. In late
January, he returned to Carnegie Hall and gave one final performance.
Jacques Brel
By early 1973, Brel knew that he was ill. He prepared his will, leaving everything to his wife Miche. In the spring he recorded a new single, L'Enfance, the proceeds of which he donated to La Fondation Perce Neige, an association set up to help disabled children.
After completing his last film L'emmerdeur, he took his daughters on a cruise. In November, he embarked on a two-month cruise across the Atlantic with five of his closest friends on the training ship Le Korrig. Brel devoted the final years of his life to his passion for sailing.
In 1977, Brel decided to record one final album. Despite his recent years away from the continent, his legend lived on in Europe and his records still sold millions of copies each year. In August, Brel returned to Paris and moved into a small hotel. He had quit smoking and, despite his poor health, was enthusiastic about working again with his faithful collaborators François Rauber and Gérard Jouannest.
In September and October, Brel recorded 12 of the 17 new songs he had written in the Marquesas. The result was his final album, Les Marquises, which included Jaures, Vieillir, Le Bon Dieu, Orly, Voir un Ami pleurer, Jojo, and Les Marquises. The new album was released on 17 November and was received as an historic national event in France.
At Brel's request,
Barclay did not run a huge promotional campaign for the album, and
still, by word of mouth alone, over a million fans placed advance
orders. The day the album was released, Jacques and Maddly returned to
their home in the Marquesas Islands.
From January to June 1978, Jacques and Maddly lived quietly at their home on Atuona Bay on Hiva-Oa island. In July, after his health began to fail, Brel was flown back to France and rushed to a hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine, where doctors discovered a cancerous tumour. He remained in the hospital for six weeks and then spent the rest of the summer in Southern France.
On 7 October, he was rushed to hospital Avicenne in Bobigny near Paris. He died of a pulmonary embolism at 4.10 am on 9 October 1978 at the age of 49. On 12 October, his body was flown back to the Marquesas Islands, where he was buried in Calvary Cemetery in Atuona on the southern side of Hiva Oa island in the Marquesas, French Polynesia -a few yards away from the grave of artist Paul Gauguin.
Brel himself occasionally included parts of his songs in Dutch, one of the three official languages of Belgium, as in Mariek. He also recorded eight other Dutch versions of songs, such as Mijn vlakke land, Laat me niet alleen, Rosa, De Burgerij, and De Nuttelozen van de Nacht. Brel also recorded two obscure singles in Dutch, De apen and Men vergeet niets, which were included in the 16-CD box set Boîte à Bonbons by Barclay. So far unreleased is the song Als men niets dan liefde heeft.
Marieke was translated by Brel himself. Since his own command of Dutch was poor, most of Brel's later Dutch interpretations were translated by Ernst van Altena, with Brel's cooperation, and are generally considered to be relatively true to the original French and poetic. De Apen was translated by Eric Franssen. Men vergeet niets was translated by well known Flemish artist Will Ferdy. Popular singers from the Netherlands singing Brel's songs in Dutch have been Liesbeth List, Jan Mesdag and Jeroen Willems.
Ne me quitte pas Il faut oublier Tout peut s'oublier Qui s'enfuit déjà Oublier le temps Des malentendus Et le temps perdu À savoir comment Oublier ces heures Qui tuaient parfois à coups de pourquoi Le cœur du bonheur
Today, The Grandma has been resting at home. Winter has arrived and the weather is cold and windy.
She has decided to stay at the sofa and watch TV. She has chosen Hello, Dolly! the wonderful film with Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthaus, Michael Crawford and Louis Armstrong. This film is based on the musical that opened on Broadway on a day like today in 1964.
Hello, Dolly! is a 1964 musical with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman and a book by Michael Stewart, based on Thornton Wilder's 1938 farce The Merchant of Yonkers, which Wilder revised and retitled The Matchmaker in 1955. The musical follows the story of Dolly Gallagher Levi, a strong-willed matchmaker, as she travels to Yonkers, New York to find a match for the miserly well-known unmarried half-a-millionaireHorace Vandergelder.
Hello, Dolly! first debuted at the Fisher Theater in Detroit on November 18, 1963, directed and choreographed by Gower Champion and produced by David Merrick, and moved to Broadway in 1964, winning 10 Tony Awards,including Best Musical. This set a record which the play held for 37 years.
The show album Hello, Dolly! An Original Cast Recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002. The album reached number one on the Billboard album chart on June 6, 1964, and was replaced the next week by LouisArmstrong's album Hello, Dolly! Louis Armstrong also was featured in the film version of the show, performing a small part of the song Hello, Dolly!.
The show has become one of the most enduring musical theater hits, with four Broadway revivals and international success. It was also made into the 1969 film Hello Dolly! which won three Academy Awards, and was nominated in four other categories.
The plot of Hello, Dolly! originated in the 1835 English play A Day Well Spent by John Oxenford, which Johann Nestroy adapted into the farce Einen Jux will er sich machen, He Will Go on a Spree or He'll Have Himself a Good Time.
Carol Channing in Hello Dolly!
Thornton Wilder adapted Nestroy's play into his 1938 farcical play The Merchant of Yonkers. That play was a flop, so he revised it and retitled it as The Matchmaker in 1955, expanding the role of Dolly, played by Ruth Gordon.
The Matchmaker became a hit and was much revived and made into a 1958 film starring Shirley Booth. However, the 1891 musical A Trip to Chinatown also features a meddlesome widow who strives to bring romance to several couples and to herself in a big city restaurant.
The role of Dolly Gallagher Levi was originally written for Ethel Merman but she turned it down, as did Mary Martin -although both eventually played it. Merrick then auditioned Nancy Walker, but he hired Carol Channing who created her signature role in Dolly. Director Gower Champion was not the producer's first choice, but Hal Prince and others turned it down, among them Jerome Robbins and Joe Layton.
Hello, Dolly! had rocky tryouts in Detroit, Michigan and Washington, D.C. After receiving the reviews, the creators made major changes to the script and score, including the addition of the song Before the Parade Passes By.
The show was originally entitled Dolly, A Damned Exasperating Woman, then Call on Dolly, but Merrick changed it upon hearing Louis Armstrong's version of Hello, Dolly!. The show became one of the most iconic Broadway shows of the latter half of the 1960s, running for 2,844 performances, and was the longest-running musical in Broadway history for a time.
The musical, directed and choreographed by Gower Champion and produced by David Merrick, opened on January 16, 1964, at the St. James Theatre and closed on December 27, 1970, after 2,844 performances.
Carol Channing starred as Dolly, with a supporting cast that included David Burns as Horace, Charles Nelson Reilly as Cornelius, Eileen Brennan as Irene, Jerry Dodge as Barnaby, Sondra Lee as Minnie Fay, Alice Playten as Ermengarde, and Igors Gavon as Ambrose.
Although facing
competition from Funny Girl with Barbra Streisand, Hello, Dolly! swept
the Tony Awards that year, winning awards in ten categories -out of
eleven nominations- that tied the musical with the previous record
keeper South Pacific record that remained unbroken for 37 years until
The Producers won twelve Tonys in 2001.
Carol Channing in Hello Dolly!
After Channing left the show, Merrick employed prominent actresses to play Dolly,including Ginger Rogers, who started on August 9, 1965; Martha Raye, starting on February 27, 1967; Betty Grable, from June 12, 1967 to November 5, 1967; Pearl Bailey in an all-black version starting on November 12, 1967; Phyllis Diller, as of December 26, 1969; and Ethel Merman after having turned down the lead at the show's inception from March 28, 1970 to December 27, 1970. Two songs cut prior to the opening -typical belt style songs World, Take Me Back and Love, Look in My Window- were restored for Merman's run. Thelma Carpenter played Dolly at all matinees during the Pearl Bailey production and subbed more than a hundred times, at one point playing all performances for seven straight weeks.
Bibi Osterwald was the standby for Dolly in the original Broadway production, subbing for all the stars, including Bailey, despite the fact that Osterwald was a blue-eyed blonde. Bailey received a Special Tony Award in 1968.
The show received rave reviews, with praise for Carol Channing and particularly Gower Champion. The original production became the longest-running musical and third longest-running show in Broadway history up to that time, surpassing My Fair Lady and then being surpassed in turn by Fiddler on the Roof. The Broadway production of Hello Dolly! grossed $27 million. Hello, Dolly! and Fiddler remained the longest-running Broadway record holders for nearly ten years until Grease surpassed them.
The RCA Victor cast recording of the original Broadway production was released in 1964. It was the number-one album on the Billboard pop albums chart for seven weeks and the top album of the year on the Year-End chart. In 1965, a recording of the original London production was released. In 1967, RCA Victor released a recording of the all-black Broadway replacement cast, featuring Pearl Bailey, who also starred in the unrecorded 1975 revival. The movie soundtrack was released in 1969. On November 15, 1994, the 1994 revival cast recording was released.
The 2017 Broadway Revival cast recording was released on May 12, 2017, featuring the songs now sung by Bette Midler, David Hyde Pierce, Kate Baldwin, and Gavin Creel.
Today, The Beans have lived an intensive day. The family is still in New York City enjoying the city and its sights and working to improve their English.
They have talked about the Adverbs of Frequency and the Prepositions of Place and Direction.
Firstly, the family has been involved in a terrible scandal when a local newspaper has accused them of being the main suspects of the fire in Trump's Tower. Without time to call the best lawyers, the family has demonstrated that if you work together you have more possibilities of success and they have been preparing their alibis. After being interrogated by the Metropolitan Police, all of them have returned to the hotel free of charges and without any doubt about their innocence. It's always better to have a good relationship with the Police.
Next, The Beans have decided to visit the Empire State, a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, the building has a roof height of 380 m and stands a total of 443.2 m tall, including its antenna.
Eli Bond-Bean and King Kong
The site of the Empire State Building, located on the west side of Fifth Avenue between West 33rd and 34th Streets, was originally part of an early 18th century farm. In the late 1820s, it came into the possession of the prominent Astor family, with John Jacob Astor's descendants building the Waldorf–Astoria Hotel on the site in the 1890s. By the 1920s, the family had sold the outdated hotel and the site indirectly ended up under the ownership of Empire State Inc., a business venture that included businessman John J. Raskob and former New York governor Al Smith.
The original design of the Empire State Building was a for a 50-story office building. However, after fifteen revisions, the final design was for a 86-story building, with an airship mast on top. This ensured it would be the world's tallest building, beating the Chrysler Building and 40 Wall Street, two other Manhattan skyscrapers under construction at the time that were also vying for that distinction.
The Beans and their rescue plan
When they were leaving the building, they have been astonished to see that Eli Bond-Bean was on the top of it kidnapped by King Kong. Quickly, they have thought a rescue plan to liberate Eli from King Kong's hands. The plan has been a total success.
Then, the family has decided to go to the zoo and talk with the bosses about a King Kong's adoption. They had got another point here. The zookeepers have never thought about this possibility but they have accepted The Beans' proposal.
The Prospect Park Zoo is a 4.9 ha zoo located off Flatbush Avenue on the eastern side of Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York City. Its precursor, the Menagerie, opened in 1890. The present facility first opened as a city zoo on July 3, 1935, and was part of a larger revitalization program of city parks, playgrounds and zoos initiated in 1934 by Parks Commissioner Robert Moses. It was built, in large part, through Civil Works Administration and Works Project Administration (WPA) labour and funding.
Finally, the family was exhausted. They have lived too many emotions in a day. The Grandma has received an incredible phone call.
Barbra Streisand was on the other side of the line and she has invited all the family to a private concert in her apartment to relax and charge batteries.
Hold the line, Barbra! I'm going to talk with my family about your invitation.
Barbra? Are you there? It's an enormous pleasure for us to come to your home and assist to your private concert. Taking profit of your trust, I would like to listen to "If you go way".
After a long transoceanic flight, The Beans arrived to New York City with time enough to celebrate Christmas in the capital of the world.
They went to check in their hotel, The Bryant Park Hotel and they started to enjoy their suites. The Bryant Hotel is a very comfortable modern New Yorker-style hotel located in Manhattan near the business district and the most important sights of the city.
During these days, The Beans are going to enjoy the city. Their agendas are full of proposals and activities and they're going to spend some unforgettable days in the city of the skyscrapers.
The Grandma watching Star Trek in her suite
The Grandma has her own agenda and she wants to watch a New York Knicks match and the Barbra Streisand's concert on New Eve's Day in the Madison Square Garden.
She also wants to visit an exposition about Salvador Dalí in the Metropolitan Museum and have a meeting with old friends like Richard Castle and the members of the CSI team in New York City.
Come on Beans, enjoy one of the most beautiful cities around the world, and the most important, enjoy its people and its culture and remember that New York is a state of mind.
It comes down to reality, and it's fine with me cause I've let it slide I don't care if it's Chinatown or on Riverside I don't have any reasons I left them all behind I'm in a New York state of mind
Today, The Bonds are in San Francisco, California where Miriam Bond has joined to Deloris Van Cartier's Gospel Choir. They arrived yesterday evening and they have been remembering their trip in New York City working with connectors, sending some tweets and creating a little composition about it.
They have remembered how the family helped the CSI New York team who was resolving a terrible murder in the city that never sleeps. Moreover, they have evocated how they bought some of the most important places of the city and they have asked for advice to their best councilor, Irene Bond, one of the most experienced members of this nice family, after remembering how important was the radio during the last century and what happened in October, 30 1938 with Orson Welles in the CBS.
Next, they have been talking about some photos which they took in NYC and how they remembered the city, especially last Friday when they went to the UNO Headquarters and met Barbra Streisand, Woody Allen and lots of fans of the New York Knicks and they experienced one of the most excited adventures: travelling in a bus full of working people.
Finally, the family has received the unexpected visit of M, who has offered them some new material, in that case, an interesting book about Steve Biko, one of the most important citizens against Apartheid.
The revolutionary sees his task as liberation
not only of the oppressed but also of the oppressor.
Happiness can never truly exist in a state of tension.
Today, The Bonds are living an intensive day. They continue revising some aspects of Social English and grammar like uncountables and Future Simple. The Grandma is talking about some memories and she is explaining some stories about fire, black cats, Occitan poetry, spies in the Middle Age and Tarot.
For one hand, Mariona Bond is reading the future in the cards and the family is realizing that this evening they have a meeting with Barbra Streisand in Broadway and tomorrow they're staying with Richard Castle and his mother, the popular actress Martha Rodgers.
For other hand, the Bonds are creating a folder using imperatives and connectors of order, and they are reviewing polite expressions with shall and reading a new chapter of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
Finally, The Grandma is talking about great genius like Charlie Chaplin, Charlie Rivel or Mr.Bean.
TheStreisand effect is the phenomenon
whereby an attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of information has the
unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely, usually
facilitated by the Internet. It is an example of psychological reactance,
wherein once people are aware something is being kept from them, their
motivation to access and spread the information is increased.
It is named
after American entertainer Barbra
Streisand, whose 2003 attempt to suppress photographs of her residence in Malibu, California, inadvertently drew further public attention to it.
Similar attempts have been made, for example, in cease-and-desist letters to
suppress numbers, files, and websites. Instead of being suppressed, the
information receives extensive publicity and media extensions such as videos
and spoof songs, often being widely mirrored across the Internet or distributed
on file-sharing networks.
The term
invoked Barbra Streisand who had unsuccessfully sued photographer Kenneth Adelman and Pictopia.com for
violation of privacy. The US $50 million lawsuit endeavoured to remove an aerial
photograph of Streisand's mansion from the publicly available collection of
12,000 California coastline photographs. Adelman photographed the beachfront
property to document coastal erosion as part of the California Coastal Records
Project, which was intended to influence government policymakers. Before
Streisand filed her lawsuit, Image 3850
had been downloaded from Adelman's website only six times; two of those
downloads were by Streisand's attorneys. As a result of the case, public
knowledge of the picture increased substantially; more than 420,000 people
visited the site over the following month.
The first condition of progress is the removal of
censorship.
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