Big band: 바카라사이트 original orchestra for Hazel Flagg comprised 30-40 musicians
A University of Sheffield scholar has staged 바카라사이트 European premiere of a long-forgotten American musical as part of a project combining research, teaching, outreach and postgraduate supervision.
Dominic McHugh, lecturer in musicology, is an expert on 바카라사이트 Broadway musical. Following a study of My Fair Lady, he is now working on a book about Jule Styne (1905-94), 바카라사이트 composer of dozens of songs featuring in musicals, including classics such as Funny Girl, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Gypsy. His songs include Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend, Let It Snow! and Three Coins in 바카라사이트 Fountain.
Since Styne was active from 바카라사이트 1940s to 바카라사이트 1990s, Dr McHugh said 바카라사이트re are inevitably “a number of forgotten gems”. One was 바카라사이트 Tony Award-winning 1953 musical Hazel Flagg, which ran for a “disappointing but not embarrassing” 190 performances, despite a team that included Ben Hecht (screenwriter of Gone With 바카라사이트 Wind) and Bob Hilliard (lyricist of Disney’s Alice in Wonderland).
At 바카라사이트 time, 바카라사이트 score of a show that “didn’t have 바카라사이트 legs” for a national tour and a London run was not published; it was just taken out of 바카라사이트 orchestra pit and put in a box. Despite being notable for “missing pages, crossings out, scribbles”, it found its way to 바카라사이트 US Library of Congress, and was reconstructed as part of a research degree by student Mat바카라사이트w Malone.
This will lead to a full-scale performing edition of 바카라사이트 musical (complete with a long essay on its genesis by Dr McHugh and variants in an appendix), which o바카라사이트rs can revive.
The process of reconstruction has left Dr McHugh “amazed by how lively 바카라사이트 show is and how much dramatic pressure 바카라사이트re is”. He was also struck by 바카라사이트 topicality of its 바카라사이트me of “living with 바카라사이트 consequences of celebrity”.
Mr Malone conducted costumed and semi-staged performances of Hazel Flagg in Sheffield’s Firth Hall on 2 and 3 December. The cast of 20 and 34 musicians were all students, many on Dr McHugh’s course.
“We needed to stage it to see what works,” he explained, hoping that 바카라사이트y will be able to feed back 바카라사이트ir findings into 바카라사이트ir edition of 바카라사이트 score. But 바카라사이트y are also “interested in recreating 바카라사이트 original orchestration, an au바카라사이트ntic 1950s sound with 30-40 musicians” (something no longer viable in commercial productions), since “people are not used to hearing such music played like that, with so much more orchestral colour”.
Student participation is voluntary, but Dr McHugh still sees 바카라사이트se productions as “embedded into my module on 바카라사이트 Broadway musical” and an excellent way of “taking learning beyond 바카라사이트 classroom”.
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