"Party with BETTY COMDEN and ADOLPH GREEN" 1961 Waldorf Astoria "Where" Magazine - $40 - (Cannon Beach, OR)
This is a rare "Where" Magazine, New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel's Weekly Guide to Entertainment for the week of February 4th, 1961 featuring BETTY COMDEN and ADOLPH GREEN on the front cover. They were entertaining nightly in the Waldorf Astoria Empire Room, following their successful Broadway engagement of the musical revue "A PARTY WITH COMDEN AND GREEN" at the John Golden Theatre in New York City. (The Original Broadway production opened December 23rd, 1958 and ran for 82 performances.) ..... Following a series of successful Monday night shows at the Off-Broadway Cherry Lane Theatre, the brilliant collaborating team of BETTY COMDEN and ADOLPH GREEN were scheduled to play three weeks at the Golden Theatre, but due to overwhelming demand extended the engagement until May 23rd, 1959. Performing songs from their early Night Club Act ("The Revuers") as well as their successful Broadway shows, Comden and Green were accompanied by WARNER SHILKRET at the piano ..... Biographical note: The team of BETTY COMDEN (1917 - 2006) and ADOLPH GREEN (1915 - 2002) were the longest running creative partnership in theatre history. They began writing and performing their own satirical comic material in a group called "The Revuers", which included the late Judy Holliday. They went on to collaborate with Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins on what was the first Broadway show for all four, "On the Town". Also with Mr. Bernstein, they wrote the lyrics for "Wonderful Town" and with Jule Styne, the book and/or lyrics for "Bells Are Ringing", "Do Re Mi", "Subways Are For Sleeping", "Fade Out - Fade In", "Hallelujah, Baby!" and others. They won five Tony Awards for the musicals "Wonderful Town", "Applause", "Hallelujah, Baby!" and "On the Twentieth Century". The Comden and Green film musicals include "Singin' in the Rain", "The Band Wagon", "On the Town", "Bells Are Ringing", "It's Always Fair Weather", "Good News", "Auntie Mame" and "The Barkleys of Broadway". "Singin' in the Rain" was …
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