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Amazing Journey Whistle gives her a bunch of fast and funny numbers – “The Miracle Song,” in which she sings and dances the ensemble in celebration of the her faked miracle; and “I’ve Got You to Lean On,” another nightclub style number sung with the corrupt city government officials Schub, Cooley and Magruder. Anyone familiar with the Marx Brothers will know that their characters were outsiders, anarchically attacking the establishment. Anyone Can Whistle was performed at the Ravinia Festival, Highland Park, Illinois on August 26 and 27, 2005. www.amazing-journey.com /anyonecanwhistle_82905.htm   (2656 words)

sjsondheim.com-The Quotable Stephen Sondheim Page Anyone Can Whistle is the story of a town that has gone broke, consequently the town's comptroller, Schub, comes up with a scheme to save it; a fake miracle to attract tourists(Water flowing from a rock). Anyone Can Whistle is absurdist social satire, a comedy that deals with sanity and insanity, conformity and non-conformity. An experiment and a musical with three acts; Anyone Can Whistle is a mixed bag, and it was Sondheim's biggest flop. www.sjsondheim.com /Anyone_Can_Whistle.html   (345 words)

Sondheim.com - Putting it together since 1994. After writing lyrics for West Side Story and Gypsy, Sondheim had made his Broadway debut as a composer in 1962 with A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, but it was with Anyone Can Whistle two years later that the world saw the first glimpse of Sondheim's rebel genius. Sondheim's score for Whistle was a quirky blend of the kind of dissonant, electrifying music he used more confidently in Company (1970) and his later shows, plus a deft takeoff of traditional show tunes to point up the insincerity and shallowness of some of the characters. Whistle was not just breaking the rules of traditional musical comedy, it was thumbing its nose at them -- and, unfortunately, also at its audience. www.sondheim.com /shows/anyone_can_whistle   (840 words)

Sondheim Guide / Anyone Can Whistle Anyone Can Whistle Live at Carnegie Hall 1995 [as Hooray for Hapgood] Anyone Can Whistle Live at Carnegie Hall 1995 [as Miracle Introduction] Anyone Can Whistle Live at Carnegie Hall 1995 [as Simple (The Interrogation)] www.sondheimguide.com /whistle.html   (1051 words)

Anyone Can Whistle Anyone Can Whistle, Stephen Sondheim's second solo effort (after A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum), opened on Broadway on April 4, 1964 to devastating reviews, and closed after just nine performances. Goddard Lieberson, who had optioned the rights to a cast album of the show, felt nonetheless that it was an important work, and though he could have bowed out of his obligations, he decided to proceed with the recording. From Anyone Can Whistle; (S. Sondheim); Produced by Goddard Lieberson; orchestra conducted by Herbert Greene; Rec. www.sonymusic.com /artists/SoundtrackForACentury/ie/track/1978.html   (182 words)

Stephen Sondheim Stage When the title was changed to Anyone Can Whistle, after the song title, this represented a shift in the show's focus, away from wacky anarchy more toward romantic love story. He is our hero, the only one who can cut through all the crap, who can see how absurd it all is. And late in the show, we find out he's a patient in the Cookie Jar and not really a doctor (because of course all doctors are fools). Anyone Can Whistle only takes one shot at racism in our culture, but it's a big shot and it's aimed better than any other satire in the show. www.sondheim.com /shows/anyone_can_whistle/analysis.html   (6403 words)

Musical Cyberspace: Sondheim's Anyone Can Whistle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) But Fay's�truer feelings are expressed in a confessional soliloquy: ANYONE CAN WHISTLE but she can't. Cora can't help but notice there's A PARADE IN TOWN, but she consoles herself with the thought that any parade without her is, by definition, second-class. Anyone Can Whistle 1995 Live at Carnegie Hall CD. www.geocities.com /joecable1997/anyonecanwhistle.html   (732 words)

Amazon.com: Anyone Can Whistle (1964 Original Broadway Cast): Music: Stephen Sondheim   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) ANYONE CAN WHISTLE is still regarded as Stephen Sondheim's worst critical and commercial diasaster. Anyone Can Whistle is a one of a kind musical. Anyone Can Whistle is pure genius and a must have for every Sondhiem collector. www.amazon.com /Anyone-Whistle-1964-Original-Broadway/dp/B0000024P5   (2018 words)

Amazon.com: Anyone Can Whistle - Live at Carnegie Hall (1995 Broadway Concert Cast): Music: Stephen Sondheim,Bernadette ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) Because Anyone Can Whistle was one of Stephen Sondheim's most notorious failures, lasting a mere nine performances in 1964, this 1995 gala benefit concert for Gay Men's Health Crisis was conceived as a one-night revival. It's an exciting performance, anchored by Bernadette Peters in Lee Remick's role as Nurse Apple (meaning she gets to sing "There Won't Be Trumpets," the title tune, and "With So Little to Be Sure Of"), plus Madeline Kahn as the Mayoress, Scott Bakula as Hapgood, and Angela Lansbury, the original Mayoress, as narrator and host. Most people seem to like this recording of "Anyone Can Whistle" I still can't believe how mediocre it is given the people involved.. www.amazon.com /Anyone-Can-Whistle-Carnegie-Broadway/dp/B000002B76   (1682 words)

The Stephen Sondheim Society - News Articles John Yap's long-awaited recording of Anyone Can Whistle is to be released this year. January 31st 2000: 'The recording of Anyone Can Whistle with Maria Friedman, Julia McKenzie and John Barrowman announced by TER will not now be released until the middle of 2000. February 11th 2002: 'Having made enquires of TER about the progress of the recording of Anyone Can Whistle, I thought you might be interested in the reply received. www.sondheim.org /php/news.php?id=1722   (647 words)

"Anyone Can Whistle" Articles & Reviews Despite Anyone Can Whistle's negligible run, a cast album was made and the score has become a favorite with admirers of Sondheim - at 75, probably still Broadway's most influential composer. By that measure, Anyone Can Whistle is half-deserving: The Stephen Sondheim score is well worth rediscovering, while the Arthur Laurents book is just as worthy of the obscurity the show has suffered. Unlike that comic hit, Whistle displays a composer - who was to become one of the 20th century's most significant Broadway creators - abandoning the melodic, accessible Broadway score for his distinctive style of challenging, complex, jagged-edge music. www.chuckwagner.com /acwarticles.html   (4358 words)

Anyone Can Whistle Tickets - Anyone Can Whistle Theater Tour Schedule Show Ticket Broker Anyone Can Whistle returns home to Philadelphia where it first previewed at the Forrest Theater. The Prince Theater has resurrected Anyone Can Whistle as part of their “American Legacy” series, celebrating groundbreaking but little known musicals from the past. Written during the 60s, a time when analysts and drugs were replaced by asylums and a corrupt political element decided if you were normal or a “cookie” (mental patient). www.ticketspecialists.com /theater/anyone_can_whistle_tickets.htm   (665 words)

indielondon.co.uk - theatre - Anyone Can Whistle, Bridewell, review IT IS HARD to see why Stephen Sondheim ever got involved with a show so jejune as Anyone Can Whistle, at The Bridewell Theatre, when one considers that he was eight years older than when he collaborated on the luminous West Side Story. The inmates mingle with the townspeople and pilgrims and when Fay refuses to identify them so they can be locked up again, she has to scarper to avoid arrest. Hapgood answers Fay's whistle and they go off into the sunset and happily, the entire population of the town leaves for the next town where another miracle has been discovered, this time a warm heart in a marble statue. www.indielondon.co.uk /theatre/t_anyone_canwhistle_rev.html   (1201 words)

Arts | Anyone Can Whistle Watching its London premiere - though I first saw it at the Everyman, Cheltenham, in 1986 - it is not hard to detect what went wrong: Stephen Sondheim's characteristically bright music and lyrics are attached to a spectacularly dreadful book by Arthur Laurents. It is a show that can never make up its mind what it is about. But if the book is a mass of unresolved tensions, Sondheim's music and lyrics at least show that division can also be creatively fruitful. arts.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4580334-110430,00.html   (469 words)

Anyone Can Whistle But Fay's truer feelings are expressed in a confessional soliloquy: ANYONE CAN WHISTLE but she can't. NOTES: Anyone Can Whistle (originally titled Side Show) was probably ahead of its time. Sondheim later perfected some of the concepts used for Whistle and the result was the successful Company. www.nodanw.com /shows_a/anyone_whistle.htm   (1218 words)

Talkin' Broadway Regional News & Reviews - "Anyone Can Whistle" in Philadelphia - 2/6/05 The show opens with Cora Hoover Hooper, mayor of the heartland hamlet of Hooperville, looking to do anything she can to rescue her town from bankruptcy and restore its reputation (and her political career). Her aides come up with a sure-fire plan: staging a fake miracle (making water seem to spring from a rock by hiding a pump under it). Ticket prices range from $30 to $52 and student tickets are $24 and may be purchased by calling the Prince Music Theater box office at 215-569-9700, in person at 1412 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, or online at www.princemusictheater.org. www.talkinbroadway.com /regional/philly/phil11.html   (1172 words)

PA Review: 'Anyone Can Whistle'...and wonder (BroadwayWorld.com)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) When the “good” Dr. Detmold is greeted by the out of town dashing psychiatrist J. Bowden Hapgood, the townspeople are tricked into being normalized, which leads the local controllers to plot a way to regain their power. There are certain elements of this story as it unfolds that bear a shocking reminder of our present day situation such as the perils of non-conformity to society, the fear of destruction both physically and mentally, and the corruptible power of a government who has hoodwinked its citizens into a secure, controlled environment. “Whistle” had surely broken free from the conventional form of your typical musical, which many called a cult show or ahead of its time. www.broadwayworld.com /viewcolumn.cfm?colid=2129   (978 words)

Playbill News: Stephen Sondheim to Join Pre-Concert Discussion at Ravinia's Anyone Can Whistle The discussion is scheduled to begin at 6:45 with the evening's presentation of Anyone Can Whistle commencing at 8 PM. Whistle is part of the Ravinia's Sondheim 75 series, a five year salute to the works of the famed composer that culminates this summer during the year of Sondheim's 75th birthday. Anyone Can Whistle will be directed by Lonny Price with musical direction by Paul Gemignani. www.playbill.com /news/article/94209.html   (492 words)

Show Plot: Anyone Can Whistle: Music Theatre International - MTI - Musical Theatre Broadway Shows Available for ... Point three: her Cookies are human and entitled like anyone to take the "cure" of the waters if it's real. She confesses that she can't relax and "let go," can't laugh, can't even whistle, and then delivers her philosophy of being able to master all the challenging and difficult things in life but not the easy ones: "Anyone Can Whistle." Lights fade on the scene as the act ends. "The Cookie Chase" ballet follows with searchlights, police whistles, and machine guns while innocent bystanders are arrested, placed in straight-jackets, and anyone on the loose is netted and locked up in cages--all of it danced to a mad waltz. www.mtishows.com /show_plot.asp?ID=000006   (1871 words)

The Sondheim Review - v2n1 Anyone Can Whistle opened at the Majestic Theater on April 4, 1964. Walter Kerr began his in the New York Herald Tribune: "Anyone Can Whistle is an exasperating musical comedy." And Richard Watts Jr. Now, thirty years later, Anyone Can Whistle is still as vivid and as elusive as it was then. www.sondheimreview.com /v2n1.htm   (1247 words)

The Broadway Musical Home - Anyone Can Whistle When Cora Hoover Hooper, the hated mayor of a small town, is faced with a town bankruptcy, she concocts a fake "miracle" of water-from-a-rock to bring in tourism. Unfortunately, during the tourist rush, the inmates from the local asylum "for the socially pressured," the Cookie Jar, escape. A Doctor Hapgood surfaces who says he can identify the "cookies" and separate them from the "sane" members of society, but when the cookies' nurse, Fay Apple, refuses to identify her charges and then falls in love with Hapgood, trouble sets in. www.broadwaymusicalhome.com /shows/anyonecanwhistle.htm   (146 words)

Anyone Can Whistle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Anyone Can Whistle is a Broadway musical with a book by Arthur Laurents and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Set in an imaginary town that has gone bankrupt, it focuses on the tough, unpopular mayoress, Cora Hoover Hooper, who - determined to rescue it from financial ruin - together with her political cronies creates a tourist attraction by faking a miracle - curative waters spouting from a rock in the town square. Anyone Can Whistle at The Internet Broadway Database en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anyone_Can_Whistle   (565 words)

Playbill News: Anyone Can Whistle — with LuPone, McDonald and Cerveris — Is Next for Chicago's Ravinia Festival A spokesperson for the theatre confirmed that Anyone Can Whistle will be part of the Ravinia's Sondheim 75 series, a five-year salute to the works of the famed composer, which will culminate in 2005 with Sondheim's 75th birthday. Anyone Can Whistle will feature direction by Lonny Price with musical direction by Paul Gemignani. The concert will use a version of the musical created by composer Sondheim and book writer Arthur Laurents that was presented at Carnegie Hall with Bernadette Peters and the late Madeline Kahn in the lead roles. www.playbill.com /news/article/90591.html   (455 words)

Anyone Can Whistle, a CurtainUp Los Angeles review Opening the show is Ruth Williamson as Mayor Cora Hoover Hooper whose dazzling villainy, droll dancing and enticing voice are worth the price of admission all by themselves. The charm of leading man John Bisom as Hapgood and the grounded fervor of Misty Cotton as Nurse Apple illuminate what could be written off as "the love interest." Joe Hart delivers a huge man who can slink and croon as the unctuous Schub and Ira Denmark makes evil Treasurer Cooley innocent and sunny. Carole Black, who has produced two other rarely done Sondheim musicals here in the past four years, can be thanked for giving us a chance to see "Anyone Can Whistle." Preserving and polishing the canon of one of our major composers is worth doing and well done. www.curtainup.com /anyonecanwhistle.html   (651 words)

dandruff:: Everyone can sing, anyone can whistle He had asked me the night before over some squabble about pop literature, "You think a layman like me could be a scholar?" And in my perhaps-naive, optimistic way, I said, "Sure, if you're determined enough." He had laughed at me, striking out with sarcasm. Just as I could never imagine being like him, he can't imagine how I can do creative things for a living... I think that passion can be maintained 24/7. unadorned.org /dandruff/archives/2003/10/21/002043.html   (914 words)

Madeline Kahn is Cora Hoover-Hooper in "Anyone Can Whistle"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) Madeline Kahn is Cora Hoover-Hooper in "Anyone Can Whistle" A Carnegie Hall concert performance of Stephen Sondheim's 1964 Broadway musical "Anyone Can Whistle." Madeline sings the role of Mayoress Cora Hoover Hooper, who, with the help of her cabinet, fakes a miracle to revive her ailing popularity as well as that of her town. She encounters opposition from Nurse Fay Apple (Bernadette Peters) of Dr. Detmold's Sanitarium for the Socially Pressured, and asks help from Dr. J. members.tripod.com /~MKahnFan/acw.html   (162 words)

"Anyone Can Whistle" - Shopping.com Anyone Can Whistle [Remaster] by Original Broadway Cast Anyone Can Whistle: Live At Carnegie Hall by Original 1995 Cast Stephen Sondheim - Anyone Can Whistle - From the Musical Production "Anyone... www.shopping.com /xGS-Anyone_Can_Whistle   (678 words)

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