Musical Selections

 

“Our Hit Parade”

Overview: The show takes the audience on a musical journey from the glory days of Tin Pan Alley to exciting new sounds and styles of the 1960s and early 70’s known as the era of The Brill Building.

Act 1

The show opens with a big number featuring our entire cast of singers and dancers.

The scene shifts to a radio broadcast studio where the show “Your Hit Parade” is about to begin its Saturday night broadcast. (That show ran on radio from 1935 to 1955, and on television from 1950 to 1959. It featured a regular group of singers and dancers performing the best-selling songs across the country that week, with a count-down to the #1 Song.)

Our talented cast of singers and dancers will entertain the audience with such old favorites as, “Shine on Harvest Moon,” “Hard Hearted Hannah,” “Let’s Fall in Love,” and “Varsity Drag” and some of their favorite songs by Cole Porter, George Gershwin, and Irving Berlin, such as “De’Lovely”, “Night and Day,” and “S’Wonderful.”

Act 2

As the audience takes their seats after intermission, an announcer comes to the center stage mike and sets the scene for Act 2.
While we were all away during intermission something revolutionary happened to the music industry – rock and roll was born. The artists and musical groups became as important as the composers and lyricists. Song writers became singers, and shows such as “Your Hit Parade” faded from the scene. The Tin Pan Alley era came to an end while in a building at Broadway and 49th street, known as The Brill Building, a new sound was happening. In a warren of small offices, each with a piano and a couple of chairs, young, hopeful song writers such as Carole King, Burt Bacharach, and the “Neils-“ Sedaka and Diamond, created the new sound track for our lives.

We spin the platters and the hits from the 60’s and early 70’s just keep coming – “Calendar Girl,” “See You in September,” “My Guy,” and “Love Potion #9.”

Broadway Fantasies is well-known for its “killer” finales. And this one will be no exception. We won’t say any more about it here, you’ll just have to come and see for yourself.

 

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