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Broadway Up Close and Personal: Frank Loesser

The Lyric Theatre in historic downtown Stuart Florida, presents a fantastic tribute concert featuring Emily and Jo Sullivan Loesser ! OCTOBER 11 and 12 at the Lyric Theatre.

Now through Friday, July 30, only American Express Cardmembers can get advance tickets to HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING!

Daniel Radcliffe headlines a spectacular new production of the Tony Award®- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical comedy How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, about a wily window-washer’s riotous rise to the top of the corporate ladder. American ExpressPerformances begin this February, and this is your one chance to get great seats without really trying.

Orlando Philharmonic and Mad Cow Theatre present Guys and Dolls concert starring Faith Prince

via PLAYBILL: Faith Prince, who won a Tony Award for her work as Miss Adelaide in the 1992 revival of Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls, will re-create that award-winning performance this fall.

Prince will play the cold-catching, perennial fiancee Adelaide in concert versions of Guys and Dolls Oct. 9 at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Center in Orlando, FL. A collaboration between The Orlando Philharmonic and Mad Cow Theatre, concerts will be presented at 2 PM and 8 PM. Broadway's Davis Gaines will co-star as Sky Masterson.

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New Frank Loesser Album! Heart & Soul: Celebrating The Unforgettable Songs Of Frank Loesser

We listen to "Heart and Soul," an anthology celebrating the Frank Loesser centennial, and the original cast album of Julian Slade's 1960 West End musical
Follow That Girl.

HEART AND SOUL [Masterworks Broadway] Frank Loesser, who died of lung cancer on July 28, 1969, would have turned 100 on June 29. Various centennial offerings include "Heart and Soul: Celebrating the Unforgettable Songs of Frank Loesser." And they are indeed unforgettable, although only a fraction of his work is represented in the 19 tracks included in this album from Masterworks Broadway (available as a digital download, or as a disc-on-demand from Arkivmusic.com).

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Heart & Soul: Celebrating The Unforgettable Songs Of Frank Loesser

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TCM presents 1937 Goldwyn classic, "The Hurricane," directed by John Ford - featuring Frank Loesser's first hit composition

At 12 Midnight on the evening of July 20, Turner Classic Movies will show the 1937 Goldwyn classic, "The Hurricane," directed by John Ford and starring Jon Hall, Dorothy Lamour, Mary Astor, Thomas Mitchell, Raymond Massey and John Carradine. Alfred Newman's Oscar-nominated score features the music of the song, "The Moon of Manakoora."

Jerry Herman on Frank Loesser to NY Post: "That wonderful man is responsible for my life in the theatre"

The NY Post's Michael Riedel ran a wonderful article on Jerry Herman and his first meeting with Frank Loesser. 'Loesser gave Broadway -- and popular music -- something else as well: songwriter Jerry Herman, whose "La Cage aux Folles" just won the Tony for Best Revival of a Musical. "That wonderful man is responsible for my life in the theater," Herman says. "I met him at that crucial point in your life when you don't know where you're going but you have secret hopes about where it's going to be."'

Frank Loesser wrote the lyrics to over 700 songs, wrote and composed the Pulitzer Prize winning musical "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying", and the ultimate piece of American musical theater "Guys and Dolls, a Musical Fable of Broadway". He won the Tony Award in 1951, as Best Composer and Lyricist. "Guys and Dolls" won for Best Musical. He was a tireless contributer to Broadway and Hollywood, and to the War effort in World War II. He was nominated for the Academy Award for "Thumbelina"(Hans Christian Andersen, 1952) and won the Academy Award for "Best Song" for "Baby, It's Cold Outside" (Neptune's Daughter, 1949).

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