A concert of a work in progress including original music and songs from the 1939 production
Telling the story of an intriguing Broadway musical adaptation of Shakespeare. This jazz-infused version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream opened in 1939 with a heady mixture of talent, including Louis Armstrong and Maxine Sullivan, and musical contributions from Count Basie and Benny Goodman.
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Songs
- Pick-a-Rib - Benny Goodman (Instrumental)
- Swingin’ A Dream - Jimmy Van Heusen & Eddie DeLange
- Spring Song - Felix Mendelssohn
- Peace, Brother - Jimmy Van Heusen & Eddie DeLange
- Moonglow - Will Hudson, Eddie de Lange and Irving Mills
- Doing the Saboo - Sammy Lowe & Erskine Hawkins (Instrumental)
- Jumpin' at the Woodside - Count Basie (Instrumental)
- Darn That Dream - Jimmy Van Heusen & Eddie DeLange
Fragments of the following songs are featured in the ‘Pyramus & Thisbe Opera’, performed with different lyrics:
- Darktown Strutters Ball - Shelton Brooks
- St. Louis Blues - WC Handy
- Jeepers Creepers - Harry Warren & Johnny Mercer
- Ain't Misbehavin' - Fats Waller & Harry Brooks
- My Melancholy Baby - Ernie Burnett & George A Norton & Larry Clinton
- I Can't Give You Anything But Love - Jimmy Hugh & Dorothy Fields
- Christopher Columbus - Leon Berry & Andy Razaf
- She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain Traditional
- Blue Moon - Rogers & Hart
- Ol' Man Mose - Louis Armstrong & Zilner T Randolph
Musicians
Piano - Peter Edwards
Trumpet - Chris Storr
Bass - Neil Charles
Clarinet/ Saxophone - Mebrakh Haughton-Johnson
Drums - Barrell Jones
Credits
Production Manager - David Tanqueray
Company Manager - Pip Horobin
Stage Managers - Sarah Caselton-Smith, Jen Davey, Briony Kirkman
Assistant Director - Aaron Parsons
Producer - Ben Tyreman
Lighting - Caroline Burrell, Claire Gerrens & Lauren Watson
Sound - Steven Atkinson, Chris Vernon, Oliver Soames, Jake Smith
Production acknowledgements
Stage: Craig Almond, Lex Kelly, Kurt Moores, Dan Avery, Simon Firth
Screen Director & Vision Mixer: Andrew Brooks
Camera Operator: Sam Oates
Content Producer: Mark Kendrick
Live Stream Producer: Gemma Short
Production Video: Oli Quintrell, Jon Ryan
Music coordination: Nicola Rossiter
Captioning: So Speedy Ltd.
Cameras and streaming technology supplied by Blackmagic Design
Artwork from the original production: © The Al Hirschfeld Foundation AlHirschfeldFoundation.org