FULL Some Enchanted Evening: Celebrating Oscar Hammerstein II New York 1995 Dawn Upshaw, Julie Andrews, and many more
Popular Singers in this Opera Recording
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Some Enchanted Evening: Celebrating Oscar Hammerstein II
- Composer: Richard Rodgers and others
- Libretto: Oscar Hammerstein II
- Venue & Opera Company: City Centerm New York
- Recorded: 1995
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Dawn Upshaw, Julie Andrews, and many more
- Conductor: David Holcenberg, Ian Fraser, David Campbell
- Orchestra:
- Choreographer: Kenneth Macmillan, Matthew Diamond
- Stage Director: Harold Prince
- Stage Designer: Randi M.Syvoy
- Costume Designer: Bob Crowley, Florence Klotz
Information about the Recording
- Published by: PBS
- Date Published: 1995
- Format: Broadcast
- Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
In a tribute to lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, host Julie Andrews introduces celebrities as they perform Hammerstein’s material. The program, taped before a live audience at City Center, New York City, begins with Andrews singing “A Cock-Eyed Optimist” from “South Pacific.”
The lineup goes on to include: Audra McDonald singing “Lover, Come Back to Me” from “The New Moon”; Peabo Bryson singing “Rose Marie” from the operetta “Rose Marie”; McDonald and Bryson dueting on “One Kiss” from “The New Moon”; Willie Nelson singing “All the Things You Are” from “Very Warm for May”; Vanessa Williams singing “Why Was I Born?” from “Sweet Adeline”; Eddie Korbich, McDonald, and the ensemble singing a medley from “Carousel,” “Oklahoma,” and “The King and I”; Michel Ball singing “Ol’ Man River” from “Show Boat”; Mark Jacoby and Rebecca Luker singing “Make Believe” from “Show Boat”; Michael Hayden and Sally Murphy singing “You’re a Queer One, Julie Jordan” and “If I Loved You” from “Carousel”; Sandra Brown and Jon Marshall Sharp dancing the “Pas de Deux” from “Carousel”; Lonette McKee, Gretha Boston, Luker and Bell singing “Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man” from “Show Boat”; Keith Carradine singing “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’ ” from “Oklahoma”; Bernadette Peters singing “What’s the Use of Wond’rin” from “Carousel”; James Barbour singing “Soliloquy” from “Carousel”; Andrews singing “Edelweiss” from “The Sound of Music”; Patti LaBelle singing “You’ve Got to be Carefully Taught” from “South Pacific”; Dawn Upshaw singing “The Last Time I Saw Paris” from “Lady Be Good”; Mandy Patinkin singing “Bali Ha’i” from “South Pacific”; the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus singing “Climb Ev’ry Mountain” from “The Sound of Music”; and LaBelle singing “You’ll Never Walk Alone” from “Carousel.”
Photos, film and biographical information on Hammerstein are interspersed throughout, detailing his grandfather’s history with show business, Hammerstein being born and raised in New York City, his marriage and five children, recollections of his working habits at his Doylestown, Penn. home, and how he helped musical theater to evolve. Speakers include: Andrews; son James Hammerstein; director Harold Prince, and lyricist and composer Stephen Sondheim, who refers to Hammerstein as his “friend and surrogate father.”