Pop Music’s Best Protest Songs of the 60s and 70s
Lost in Yonkers: A Play by Neil Simon
Pop Music’s Best Protest Songs of the 60s and 70s
Learn about pop, folk-rock, and rock artists of the 60s and 70s whose songs had messages associated with various issues of the time, sometimes unintended, at the PinkSlip Duo's presentation of POP MUSIC'S BEST PROTEST SONGS OF THE 60s AND 70s. Based on lists by Rolling Stone Magazine and other sources, the PinkSlip Duo will […]
Find out more »Lost in Yonkers: A Play by Neil Simon
Neil Simon's 1991 Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play tells the story of a young father whose wife has recently died. He needs money to pay their medical bills and has an opportunity to earn a good salary working as a traveling salesman. But he has two young sons (Jay and Arty) to care for, […]
Find out more »Gower Champion on Broadway: Put On A Happy Face
Gower Champion first rose to stardom as half of the most celebrated dancing team since Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Marge and Gower Champion appeared in a popular series of MGM musicals and eventually became household names, when they were given their own television show. But when Gower began directing on Broadway, he quickly became […]
Find out more »New Year’s Eve Party – Entertainment To Be Announced!
Come celebrate the New Year with us at the Delray Beach Playhouse! This year's NEW YEARS EVE PARTY is going to be one of the best yet - ENTERTAINMENT TO BE ANNOUNCED, SO STAY TUNED! NYE MATINEE PERFORMANCE THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2020 at 2:00 PM REGULAR TICKET 1:00 PM Lobby ONLY Reception Begins – $50 […]
Find out more »A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: A Musical by Stephen Sondheim
After establishing himself as a top-notch lyricist with WEST SIDE STORY and GYPSY, Stephen Sondheim created his first work as both lyricist and composer with this tribute to the classic Roman comedies of Plautus performed in a style that was part Vaudeville, part Burlesque and totally hilarious! Pseudolus is a slave who is determined to […]
Find out more »The Music of Jerome Kern: All the Things You Are
Irving Berlin and George Gershwin are often credited with popularizing jazz and ragtime music, but it was Jerome Kern who first introduced these modern musical forms to Broadway. Then (in 1927), he wrote SHOWBOAT, the first American Musical with a serious theme, creating a genre that would lead from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Stephen Sondheim […]
Find out more »The Ultimate Folk Experience: The Story and Songs of the Great American Folk Music Revival
Enjoy a nostalgic, informative and fun-filled folk music sing-along, as the PinkSlip Duo and former Highwayman Roy Connors bring you back to the Great American Folk Music Revival with fascinating stories, slides, and songs by Pete Seeger and the Weavers, Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, the Kingston Trio, New Christy Minstrels, the Limeliters, the Rooftop Singers, Smothers […]
Find out more »Stage Struck: A Play by Simon Gray
When Anne O'Neill and Robert Simon married seven years ago, she was a promising actress and he had given up a failing career on the stage to become a Stage Manager in a provincial theatre. But since their marriage, Anne has become a major star on the London stage; while Robert's career has peaked...leading to […]
Find out more »Sibling Harmony: The Everly Brothers’ Story and Songs
Like most people in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, Ike Everly and his brothers toiled in coal mines, but in their little free time, they played music together, singing at the top of their challenged lungs. When Ike and Margaret’s sons came along, first Don and then Phil, they grew up surrounded by the family jam sessions, […]
Find out more »The Songs of Harold Arlen: Come Rain or Come Shine
Harold Arlen wrote songs for the Broadway stage and for the Silver Screen for almost 40 years! Many of them are among the best-known songs in the history of American music…songs like “Stormy Weather," "Blues in the Night," “The Man That Got Away," “I’ve Got a Right to Sing the Blues," "Accentuate the Positive," "I've Got the World […]
Find out more »Steel Magnolias
Robert Hartling's play about his mother and his sister, and their intimate friendships with the ladies who frequent Truvy Jones' beauty parlor in Chinquapin, Louisiana, has become one of the most popular and frequently performed plays in the history of American Regional Theatre. Since every woman who is "anybody" in Chinquapin comes to Truvy's we […]
Find out more »How “Hello, Dolly!” Came to Broadway: It Only Takes A Moment
When HELLO, DOLLY! broke records in its recent revival starring Bette Midler, playgoers in The Schubert Theater read in their Playbills that the musical was based on Thornton Wilder's 1955 comedy THE MATCHMAKER. But the fact is that the true inspiration of the show dates all the way back to William Shakespeare! But don't worry! The only classical material you'll hear in this program are […]
Find out more »A Doll’s House – Part 2
In 1879, Henrik Ibsen wrote a play called A DOLL'S HOUSE in which a woman named Nora Torvald rebels against the restrictions her society imposes upon young wives and mothers. Rather than spending her life and wasting her energy serving as an unpaid domestic, she packs a bag and walks out of the house, leaving […]
Find out more »How Disney Transformed Broadway: Wishing On A Star
Whatever your age, there is a good chance that the first musical you ever enjoyed was an animated musical film by Walt Disney. Older theatre-goers were mesmerized by films like SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS and PINOCCHIO. Younger theatre-goers have grown up watching films like THE LION KING, THE LITTLE MERMAID and MARY POPPINS. […]
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