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	Of Thee I Sing (1972) (TV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Whereas most other musicals of the 1930s offered frothy escapism, 'Of Thee I Sing' drew bitter satire from the Depression and America's political situation at the time: this was only one of several reasons why 'Of Thee I Sing' was the first musical ever to win the Pulitzer Prize.
		It can be argued that 'Of Thee I Sing' is anti-American in its spirit; in fact, author Kaufman refused to sanction a revival of this musical during World War Two, believing that the U.S. government should not be satirised in wartime.
		O'Connor's singing voice is well-suited to the material, and he clearly relishes this opportunity to demonstrate that his acting range doesn't stop with Archie Bunker.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0218483 (782 words)

	Of Thee I Sing, a CurtainUp review
		While Of Thee I Sing was the first musical ever to win a Pulitzer Prize, it was the second polical musical of the 1931-32 Broadway season.
		Of Thee I Sing took broader, less specific aim at ineffective politicians, and the power of their vacuous campaign slogans to appeal to a public more interested in their private lives than their public policies.
		Of course Of Thee I Sing preceded the trend for fully integrated musicals that came with Oklahoma and is therefore as much operetta as musical.
	www.curtainup.com /oftheeising.html (1092 words)

	Of Thee I Sing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Of Thee I Sing is widely hailed as one of the greatest Broadway musicals ever staged, as much for its clever lyrics and melodic score as for its brilliant satirical thrust.
		Of Thee I Sing was the longest running musical of its decade, with Anything Goes a close second: interestingly so, for while Anything Goes urged audiences to put the Depression out of their minds for two entertaining hours, Of Thee I Sing delivered entertainment that never let its audience forget the crisis at hand.
		Ironically, when the Pulitzer Prize committee chose Of Thee I Sing as the greatest American play of 1931, it considered the music to be of secondary value, and the prize was split between Ira, Kaufman and Ryskind alone.
	www.savoyardlightopera.org /otis_article.html (539 words)

	O Say Can You Sing? Patriotic Site. Standard 3A: Improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments. Includes ...
		After sufficient review, sing the song alone up to the words “Of thee I sing.” At that point, ask students to sing “Of thee I sing.” Starting from “Land where my fathers died,” ask students to complete the song as you conduct them.
		Sing the song up to “Of thee I sing,” and then direct students to sing that part of the phrase.
		When the students get to “Of thee I sing,” stop the singing and let the bells or chimes play in the rhythm of the phrase “Of thee I sing.” After the bells or chimes play, have students sing the words on the pitches that were played in the new sequence.
	www.menc.org /guides/patriotic/3a.html (654 words)

	Robert J. Branham - "Of Thee I Sing": Contesting "America" - American Quarterly 48:4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The singing of "America" in "Americanization" ceremonies and immigrant literature is an assertion of citizenship and a claim of belonging.
		Smith's claim that "in the singing of the song we are again all one" betokens the period's widely-held belief in a mythic past, prior to mass immigration, assimilation, and emancipation, when America was imagined to have been demographically homogeneous.
		She chose to sing of a "sweet land of liberty" at the public observance of liberty's denial, and to challenge the DAR as custodians of "Americanism" by laying claim to the principles expressed in "America."
	xroads.virginia.edu /~DRBR2/branham.html (10470 words)

	"Of Thee I Sing" Review
		The Portland Phoenix reviewed Of Thee I Sing in their July 2-8, 2004 issue.
		In Of Thee I Sing, shrewd allusions and jabs – to P.T. Barnum, agricultural policies, the Constitution, Paul Revere's horse – flow as liberally as the booze in the politicians&Mac226; flasks, and writers George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind and lyricist Ira Gershwin roast America's electoral shenanigans with an unfailing eye for the madcap.
		And although it was written during the Depression, its humor and entertainment value (as director Lynette Miller remarks in her program notes) aren't escapist – they&Mac226;re barbed, wise, and irreverent, always mindful of the world outside the proscenium.
	www.gaslighttheater.org /OTIS_review.html (975 words)

	WRVP To Present ‘Of Thee I Sing’
		"Of Thee I Sing" tells the story of presidential candidate John P. Wintergreen, whose road to success is based not on the issues, but on surface politics.
		She married and moved to California, and in 1938, when Sidney was a senior at the University of California at Berkley, his class musical was "Of Thee I Sing." George had died the year before, but Ira attended the show, as did Rose, and Sidney was able to arrange a very happy reunion between them.
		Performances of "Of Thee I Sing" are Friday, April 23; Saturday, April 24; and Saturday, May 1 at 8 p.m.; plus matinees Sunday, April 25 and Sunday, May 2 at 2 p.m.
	www.rherald.com /news/2004/0422/Arts/a01.html (649 words)

	CHURCH FATHERS: Oration on Simeon and Anna (Methodius)
		And it is a proof of this, and an irrefragable argument, that at the novelty of thy supernatural child-bearing, the angels sang on earth, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good-will towards men," by their threefold song bringing in a threefold holiness.
		Blessed art thou among the generations of women, O thou of God most blessed, for by thee the earth has been filled with that divine glory of God; as in the Psalms it is sung: "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, and the whole earth shall be filled with His glory.
		In thee, and by thee, let that justification which is of grace become known beforehand to the Gentiles.
	www.newadvent.org /fathers/0627.htm (4801 words)

	'Of Thee I Sing' wins favorable approval rating - The Eagle - The Scene
		The plot of this Pulitzer Prize-winning satire is simple: The somewhat clueless John Wintergreen (Ryan Nealy) is running for president shortly after World War One, and his advisers (Catherine Baggs, Laura Owen) have yet to hit upon a key issue to drive the campaign.
		Politicians skirt the issues and manipulate the public, presidents are threatened with impeachment at the whims of the Senate, the French are easy targets for mockery.
		Seventy-three years after the debut of "Of Thee I Sing," it still remains unclear where the vice president (played here by Michael J. Fulvio) spends most of his time.
	www.theeagleonline.com /news/2004/10/18/TheScene/of.Thee.I.Sing.Wins.Favorable.Approval.Rating-771288.shtml (568 words)

	Hartford Advocate: Of Thee I Sing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It is Cathy who is in the foreground, standing over a moving box, singing "Still Hurting," a song that tells us Jamie has left her.
		And as he is bubbling with eagerness we move to Cathy, later in the relationship, singing "See, I'm Smiling," like, everything must be OK because I'm smiling, even though you aren't paying any attention to me and I know we are in deep, deep trouble.
		Certainly, this is a relationship that is primarily colored by ambition and fantasy -- to be a great novelist for him, to be a Broadway star for her.
	www.hartfordadvocate.com /gbase/Arts/content?oid=oid:14506 (768 words)

	Robert J. Branham - "Of Thee I Sing": Contesting "America" - American Quarterly 48:4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Learning and singing the song were acts by which aspiring citizens expressed their hopes for their new country and affirmed their status as Americans.
		For many, to sing of America as a "sweet land of liberty" was to deny the reality of their own experience.
		Instead of refusing to sing "America" or changing its lyrics, some singers and orators have retained Smith's original words, but cast them against a backdrop of circumstances that alters their meaning, changing the context from piety to inescapable irony.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~drbr2/branham.html (10470 words)

	Review 'Of Thee I Sing'
		The Paper Mill Playhouse is presenting a terrific revival of "Of Thee I Sing." In honor of the occasion, here is short recap of the social, political, and economic events surrounding three U.S. presidencies that undoubtedly inspired the writing of this winner of the 1931 Pulitzer Prize.
		Audiences at "Of Thee I Sing" might be amused to know how closely the character of the vice-president is derived directly from the personality of Calvin Coolidge, the next Republican president of the U.S. (1923 to 1929).
		Considering that it was written in 1931 when the U.S. was crippled by the biggest economic crises in its history, "Of Thee I Sing" is still amazingly topical.
	www.princetoninfo.com /200410/41006p01.html (974 words)

	Review: Of Thee I Sing - Paper Mill Playhouse
		Living in an era when political humor is as mean spirited as most election campaigns, we tend to forget that there was a time when satire was a finely tuned art form.
		In spoofing presidential politics, the authors of Of Thee I Sing saw no reason to zero in on any particular person or party.
		Photographers admire the beauties competing to marry a presidential candidate in Paper Mill's Of Thee I Sing.
	www.musicals101.com /ofthee2004.htm (1355 words)

	Our Word and Welcome to It: MH - Of Thee I Sing?
		It is, after all, a little hard for most of us to sing along to Cherubiniâs Fourth Mass in C (although Judie can do it, having once sung in a classical chorus).
		Itâs particularly nice to go to Childhood at Christmastime, when we sing some of the more familiar hymns (âWe Three Kings,â âO Little Town of Bethlehem,â etc.), and Iâll admit those are the times when I miss singing in church.
		There the Mass is usually a low one, with no chanting or singing at all, and one becomes a first-hand witness to the power of silence, especially during the Canon.
	hadleyblog.blogspot.com /2005/06/mh-of-thee-i-sing.html (1095 words)

	Of Thee I Sing - Timothy Liu - University of Georgia Press
		Of Thee I Sing - Timothy Liu - University of Georgia Press
		In his fifth book of poems, Timothy Liu addresses a tripartite "Thee"; the Divine, the Beloved, and the State.
		A precarious dance between the spiritual and the material ensues, the lyric poem confronting a consumer culture overrun by rampant lust and greed yet finding itself unable to wholly stand outside of what it critiques.
	www.libreriauniversitaria.it /BUS/0820326003/Of_Thee_I_Sing.htm (215 words)

	Music : Of Thee I Sing/Let 'em Eat Cake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Of Thee I Sing / Let 'Em Eat Cake was one of the leading recordings during the Gershwin CD revival of the late 1980s.
		Led by Gershwin expert Michael Tilson Thomas using some newly discovered materials, it resuscitated two nearly forgotten satires from the 1930s sung by casts who were better able to capture the spirit of the music than the opera stars who were in vogue at the time.
		It's not as fun as Of Thee I Sing nor is its score as memorable ('More' is the only standard that emerged).
	www.e-cd.org /B0000026H7/Of_Thee_I_SingLet_em_Eat_Cake.html (447 words)

	Classical Net Review - Gershwin - Of Thee I Sing
		Of Thee I Sing was probably the most sophisticated musical of its time, the first to win a Pulitzer (George Gershwin was the only one of its creators excluded by the committee, the jerks).
		In Of Thee I Sing, the Act I finale introduces the major complication (Wintergreen's choosing Mary Turner over Diana Devereaux), and the Act II finale resolves it.
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	www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/s/sny42522a.html (1383 words)

	The New Republic : Call the whole thing off.(similarity to modern Clinton scandal to George Gershwin's operetta, 'Of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Last weekend was the hundredth anniversary of George Gershwin's birth, and, to commemorate the event, while seeking refuge from the obscene cd-rom containing the appendices of the Starr report, I put on the Brooklyn Academy of Music's terrific recording of Gershwin's greatest political operetta, Of Thee I Sing.
		Written as a satire of presidential scandals in the Hoover era, Of Thee I Sing, which won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1932, begins at the convention of the National Party.
		A journalist named Matt Fulton, who is a cross between Michael Isikoff and Matt Drudge, suggests that the best way to excite the voters and to raise newspaper circulation is to orchestrate a campaign drama that combines sex and politics.
	static.elibrary.com /t/thenewrepublic/october191998/callthewholethingoffsimilaritytomodernclintonscand/index.html (295 words)

	Time is right for music, glitz in 'Of Thee I Sing' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The legendary American composer George Gershwin may have died young (in 1937, at 38, of a brain tumor), but he left behind a sparkling legacy of unforgettable show tunes.
		First mounted in 1931 and never filmed by Hollywood, this landmark musical is one of those show-business phantoms that everybody has heard about and almost nobody has seen.
		"Of Thee I Sing" will be repeated at 8 Saturday and 7:30 p.m.
	www.jsonline.com /letsgo/performingarts/1026thee.html (516 words)

	Paper Mill's Of Thee I Sing: A Landslide Victory (BroadwayWorld.com)
		What makes Of Thee I Sing so special among the many outstanding Gershwin scores is the sharp contrast between the lovely sentimentality of George's music and the cold-hearted cynicism behind Ira's lyrics.
		As the All-American Mary, Garrett Long is that crisp, exacting prototype of the efficient woman behind the man. Sarah Knowlton, as the jilted Diana, has some very funny bits playing her comic melodrama, although she doesn't require the winking references (one of them literally winking) to Patti LuPone.
		Of Thee I Sing is unique among political satires, as its main target of attack is not a power-mad ruler or a greedy industrialist.
	www.broadwayworld.com /viewcolumn.cfm?colid=1212 (1661 words)

	Aisle Say: OF THEE I SING
		John and Mary sing the campaign love song, "Of Thee I Sing" at a monster combined rally-and-wrestling-match in Madison Square Garden, and every heart and voice wants to join in the chorus
		"Of Thee I Sing" works as celebration in spite of skewering or sending up what passes for political process because Gershwin, like Sullivan, uses his music to manipulate deep emotions we all share and to reinforce our sense of community.
		We respond to the melody's emotional appeal -- and to the platform of love -- at the same time as we recognize that it is utterly illogical and irrelevant in the circumstances.
	www.stagepage.info /reviews/ofthee.html (1300 words)

	Music CD: Acapella Hymns. Glad Tracks: Lead On, O King Eternal, Beneath the Cross Medley, This Is My Father's World/For ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The close harmony of this group is wonderful to listen to, but when combined with the words of these traditional hymns, it becomes even more special.
		Whether they are singing the soaring "Fairest Lord Jesus" or the majestic "O Worship the King", Glad communicates the love of God in a new and refreshing way.
		I can't help but think that the "normal" 'Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee' that we sing in church is a little hum-drum after hearing GLAD's interpretation.
	www.musicolympus.com /cd-store/B00000DPIS/Acapella_Hymns_-_Glad.html (502 words)

	now: my country tis of thee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		'tis of Thee, Sweet Land of Liberty Of thee I sing; Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride,...
		My Country 'Tis of Thee My Country ' Tis of Thee by Samuel Francis Smith My country tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing.
		My Country 'Tis Of Thee My Country, 'Tis Of Thee, Sweet Land Of Liberty, Of Thee I Sing; Land Where My Fathers Died, Land Of The Pilgrim's Pride, From Ev'ry Mountain Side Let Freedom Ring.
	www.frankwiethuechter.de /my_country_tis_of_thee.html (345 words)

	Playbill News: Paper Mill's Of Thee I Sing to Be Filmed for New York Public Library Archive
		Playbill News: Paper Mill's Of Thee I Sing to Be Filmed for New York Public Library Archive
		Of Thee I Sing marks the latest Paper Mill production to be preserved by Theatre on Film and Tape.
		Of Thee I Sing boasts a score by George and Ira Gershwin and a book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/88739.html (379 words)

	‘Of Thee I Sing’ schedules extra showing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Department of Musical Theatre will present ‘Of Thee I Sing’; this week in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre.
		A political satire, ‘Of Thee I Sing’; focuses on a presidential candidate and his running mate who are nominated by an ‘old boys’ network, win votes by feigning interest in political issues and then have several difficult situations to deal with once they are elected.
		Filled with catchy Jazz Age tunes written by George and Ira Gershwin and script written by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, the show, which debuted in 1931, won the first Pulitzer Prize for Drama ever awarded to a musical and played for 441 performances.
	www.umich.edu /~urecord/0001/Oct09_00/27.htm (142 words)

	Amazon.com: Music: Of Thee I Sing [DRG] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		OF THEE I SING was the first musical ever to win a Pulitzer Prize in 1931.
		Despire the porrer singing this old album is actually much more enjoyable and sounds vividly theatrical with little snatches of dialogue to help explain the story.
		The singing is remarkably unspectacular all around, but one singer in particular, Lenore Lonergan as Diana Devereaux (who only got the part because she was married to one of the producers), is absolutely awful!
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000658H7?v=glance (1215 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Regional News & Reviews - New Jersey "Of Thee I Sing" - 9/13/04
		It would be negligent not to mention that there are three gorgeous George and Ira Gershwin standards ("Love Is Sweeping The Country," "Who Cares?" and "Of Thee I Sing") in the show.
		Wally Dunn is an amusing Throttlebottom throughout, and then strongly delivers in the impeachment scene during which he delightfully sings "The Senator From Minnesota." Sarah Knowlton sings strongly, gives a solid comic performance and is appropriately sexy as Diana Devereaux.
		Of Thee I Sing continues performances through October 17, 2004 (Eves.: Tuesday - Sunday; Mats: Thursday, Saturday, Sunday) at the Paper Mill Playhouse, Brookside Drive, Millburn, NJ 07041.
	talkingbroadway.com /regional/nj/nj62.html (1218 words)

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