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David Kernan

DAVID KERNAN  

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 Dorothy Fields Forever         Jerome Kern Goes To Hollywood         Kern Goes To Hollywood         Merman A Lady With A Song         Moving On

Dorothy Fields Forever

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Musical

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Jerome Kern Goes To Hollywood

David Kernan
By focusing on Kern's Hollywood years, the show inevitably downplays his early anglophilia and impact on the Broadway musical with Show Boat, though we are reminded that the first of the musical's three movie versions was almost sunk by casting a Germanic tenor as Gaylord Ravenal. But the main purpose is to get on as many songs as possible, and to hear once again a Fine Romance or The Way You Look Tonight is to be reminded of an era when musicals were a source of escapist pleasure rather than industrial enterprises. - Billington, Guardian

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Conceived by David Kernan; Book by Dick Vosburgh; Music by Jerome Kern; Featuring songs with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, Dorothy Fields, Ira Gershwin, Otto Harbach, Johnny Mercer, E.Y. Harburg, Jimmy McHugh, P. G. Wodehouse, Buddy DeSylva, Gus Kahn, Bernard Dougall And Herbert Reynolds

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Ritz Theatre, NY    1986

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Original cast recording: First Night (OCR CD6014) 1985

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Musical Revue Musical

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Kern Goes To Hollywood

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Merman A Lady With A Song

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Bridge Lane, London    1991

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Moving On

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a 70th birthday tribute to Stephen Sondheim with songs, words and music

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Devised by David Kernan And John Kane from the songs of Stephen Sondheim

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Bridewell, London    2000

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