Talk:Lady in the Dark

Tv version[edit]

There appear to be a 1954 TV version of this musical also (see 1954 in music). Someone who actualy know anyting about it should add a section on that. --Sherool 30 June 2005 15:36 (UTC)

Lyrics to "Tchaikovsky"[edit]

Where did you find the list of composers? Is there a recording/copy of the lyrics online? Golwengaud 04:16, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind. I found the lyrics here. I would still like to see a recording if there is one online.Golwengaud 05:09, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Tschaikovsky vs. Tchaikovsky[edit]

How should the name of the composer of the music for “Serenade” be spelled? Most Westerners now spell it Tchaikovsky, but City Ballet took up, during Balanchine’s lifetime, the spelling Tschaikovsky. Why? Because that’s how the composer spelled it when he was in New York in 1891. (My thanks to the reader who sent me a copy of his Carnegie Hall autograph from the Pierpont Morgan Library.)

NY Times article by Alastair Macaulay, June 1, 2007

Suddenly It's Spring[edit]

I'm not sure who got the idea that "Suddenly It's Spring" was in the Gershwin/Weill score and retained for the motion picture. Rather, it was composed specifically for the 1944 movie by Johnny Burke and James Van Heusen. I am removing that reference from the article. StavinChain (talk) 20:22, 26 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nobody has a same-sex relationship in this play.[edit]

I removed unsourced gossip about the character of Russell Paxton. I've read the libretto for this play at the Library of Congress. At no point does Russell Paxton have a same-sex relationship. At no point does he say he's gay. At no point does Liza or any other character say he's gay. So I removed these falsehoods from two different segments of the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.26.159.58 (talk) 05:51, 14 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That the Paxton character is gay is not unsourced. It's sourced to page 31 of the Capsuto book. Perhaps someone with the book can more clearly identify exactly what's said and what it supports. Also:

Gertrude Lawrence dazzled in the Broadway version as Liza Elliott, but was nearly upstaged by Danny Kaye as gay fashion photographer Russell Paxton, played (somewhat) straighter in the film by Misha Auer. [1]

Both times, Keene Crockett played the supporting role of Russell Paxton, a screamingly gay fashion photographer. [2]

However, gays were not entirely invisible on the New York stage.... In 1941, Danny Kaye became a star portraying Lady in the Dark's effusive – and ridiculous – fashion photographer, "Russell Paxton." [3]

I'm not familiar enough with this work to revert the IP editor's deletion, but provide the above for other interested editors. TJRC (talk) 21:22, 14 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

-- I believe excerpts from "Lady in the Dark" seen in a musical comedy retrospective TV show on PBS in the late 1970s, hosted by Sylvia Fine Kaye (and/or Ned Sherrin), and featuring her husband Danny -- and the original "Russell Paxton" -- would not be perceived by any reasonable person as NOT portraying a stereotyped, flamboyant gay man. Re the libretto, I read some of it in a library myself, and if memory serves me correctly, early on Russell actually comments about the physical appeal of another, specific man (the Victor Mature character, I think).

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