Broadway By the Year

I went to a great show at Town Hall last night - The Broadway Musicals of 1956. It's part of a series produced by Barbara and Scott Siegel. Once a month, they pick a year and put on a concert of songs from broadway shows that were produced in that year. The casts are always terrific - a combination of broadway and cabaret stars. Last night's show, for instance, celebrated the songs that were heard in My Fair Lady, The Most Happy Fella, Candide and Bells Are Ringing, among others. The star-studded cast included Christine Andreas (Eliza in the 1976 revival of My Fair Lady), Mark Kudisch, John Treacy Egan (The Producers), Ashley Brown (Beauty and the Beast), Rachelle Rak (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) and award-winning cabaret artistst Brandon Cutrell and Connie Pachl. It was a fabulously entertaining evening...the next one is The Broadway Musicals of 1968, to be held on May 1st.