| re: Did anyone see THE RINK concert at 54 Below last night? | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 06:02 pm EDT 07/27/24 | |
| In reply to: re: Did anyone see THE RINK concert at 54 Below last night? - champagnesalesman 06:05 pm EDT 07/23/24 | |
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| Things have changed so much since "back in the day" when there were dozens, probably hundreds, of summer-stock theatres around the country, and stars (or at least somewhat well-known names) went out in productions. Sometimes these were tours, sometimes not tours. And then there were stock theatres that usually didn't get stars, just established performers, but these theatres had very loyal audiences who came back year after year to see the productions they did each summer (and some theatres, not the tents, did shows the rest of the year, too). For whatever reason, people like Martha Raye, Dolores Grey, Peggy Cass, Carmel Quinn and Gale Storm wanted to do Wildcat, or were at least willing to do it. Raye must have really liked doing it because she did at least three or four productions, a couple of them tours, over several years in the 1960s. It can be interesting to find out which shows that were not really successes on Broadway but that ran long enough to have some name recognition (and a cast recording, for musicals) had life post-Broadway and which ones disappeared completely or nearly completely. For one example, Kenley must have liked Walking Happy because he produced it twice, although it otherwise disappeared after Broadway and then runs of the original production in San Francisco and Los Angeles as part of the Light Opera seasons, while Skyscraper from pretty much the same team, which ran a bit longer than Walking Happy, disappeared as far as I can tell. Anyway, the kind of summer stock that existed for a long time, and perhaps particularly had its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, started disappearing in the early 1970s. The times were changing. Dinner theatre sort of replaced it, but it wasn't really the same. And dinner theatre, at least when it came to musicals, tended to do the classics and semi-classics. Sometimes they would to lesser-known shows, if a name wanted to do a particular show, but mostly it was famous titles. |
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