Harold Arlen

Pantages 2013-14 menu offers 'Once,' 'Mormon' and three by Webber

2013-02-22 07:00:00

The 2013-14 season at the Pantages Theatre will feature last year’s most decorated Broadway musical, “Once,” Andrew Lloyd Webber thrice, and a second helping of "The Book of Mormon." The Webber trifecta will consist of his production...

Sandy Hook students, Ingrid Michaelson record benefit single

2013-01-15 13:47:00

Nearly two dozen students who survived the shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.,� have joined with indie folk-pop singer Ingrid Michaelson to record a version of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” as a benefit for...

Review: Jewish songwriters set 'Broadway Musicals' singing on PBS

2013-01-01 15:06:00

"Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy," which airs New Year's night on PBS (that's PBS SoCal, for local viewers) as part of its "Great Performances" series, shares again the great open secret that American culture is to a great extent Jewish culture. More...

Paul McCartney to release album of covers, two new songs

2011-12-19 16:36:35

New book says the piano is most important instrument of all

2011-12-26 16:32:57

Album review: Paul McCartney's 'Kisses on the Bottom'

2012-02-06 16:36:39

Margaret Whiting dies at 86; pop singer mentored by Johnny Mercer

2011-01-13 00:00:00

Margaret Whiting, a pop singer for television, film, cabaret and Broadway whose recordings of such standards as "That Old Black Magic" and "Come Rain or Come Shine" sold millions of copies in the 1940s and '50s, has died. She was 86. Whiting died...

Theater review: 'Hoboken to Hollywood' at the Edgemar

2010-11-02 16:32:50

Album review: Heavy metal singers salute Frank Sinatra in 'SIN-ATRA'

2011-03-29 16:35:44

In Sondheim's company

2010-04-18 00:00:00

Few people have turned 80 with the fanfare shown Stephen Sondheim, master of the musical theater. There was "Sondheim: The Birthday Concert" at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall. The Roundabout Theatre Company in New York will rename its Broadway house...

At 'Cast Party,' the mike is open and the party is on

2010-03-28 00:00:00

By the time Liza Minnelli took the stage at Birdland, just after midnight, the party was in full swing: Michael Feinstein hugged the Broadway legend and a bubbly, upbeat crowd sang happy birthday to her. Parker Posey performed a wild, gyrating dance to...

Restored 'Wizard of Oz' hits theaters tonight and store shelves Tuesday

2009-09-23 16:33:07

Danny Gokey performed 'Come Rain or Come Shine' by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer

2009-04-28 21:12:13