Wonderful Wizard of Song - Live Concert
Classic songs by the Oz composer, Harold Arlen., You'll hear renditions of "Stormy Weather," "Come Rain or Come Shine," "Paper Moon," and much loved tunes from "The Wizard of Oz"
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Wonderful Wizard of Song - Live Concert
80th Anniversary of The Wizard of Oz is Celebrated With a Little Help from Tony Bennett - The WONDERFUL WIZARD of SONG, a tribute to Wizard of Oz composer Harold Arlen, a special opening by Tony Bennett, videotaped exclusively for this show. Starring Karon Kate Blackwell, the composer’s son Sam Arlen and George Bugatti, this multi-media review boasts not only the exclusive virtual performance by Tony Bennett, but also rare behind the scenes footage from The Wizard of Oz, exclusive archival content from Arlen’s Hollywood, Broadway and Cotton Club years and, the Academy Award statue Arlen won for Best Song, Over The Rainbow! Harold penned over 550 songs and worked with many lyricists including Johnny Mercer, Dorothy Fields, Truman Capote and Ira Gershwin. We have included all the big hits as well as the important works,” said the show’s host and narrator Sam Arlen. This show is the concert version of the longrunning musical about Oscar-winning Harold Arlen that ran at The St Luke’s Theatre in New York from 2012 thru 2014. Weaved into the 90-minute musical are inside stories of how some of the world's most beloved songs made famous by Judy Garland, Barbara Streisand, Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett, were created
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