Enchanted Evenings:The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber (93 page)

McFerrin, Bobby, 168

McFerrin, Robert, 168–69, W87n39

McGlinn, John, 20, 23–24, 26, 37, 42, 44, 48, 65, 70, 160, 164

Macintosh, Cameron, xxi, xxvii, 327, 378, 395

McKenzie, Julia, 351

MacLeish, Archibald, W94n8

McMillin, Scott, 394, W74n6, W74n10

McPherson, Aimée Semple, 49, 57

MacRae, Gordon,
311

Madame Butterfly
(Puccini) [opera], 94

“Madame Odette’s Waltz” (Weill and Vambery), 140

Madonna, W130n101

The Magic Flute
(Mozart) [opera], 115, 254, 349

Magnolia’s piano theme (Kern), 30,
32
, 33, 36, 111, 161, 162

Mahler, Gustav, 254

“Make a Miracle” (Loesser), 236, 244, 245, 250

“Make Believe” (Kern and Hammerstein), xii, 30, 33, 34, 36–38, 162, W81n48, W81n59, W105n11

“Make the Most of Your Music” (Sondheim), 377

Malcolm, Donald, 259

Mambo (from “The Dance at the Gym”) (Bernstein), 284, 287, 295, 303

“Mamma, Mamma” (Loesser),
258

Mamma Mia!
(Andersson and Luvaeus), xxvii

Mamoulian, Rouben, xxvi, 66, 83, 136, 166, 168, 170, 172, 190, 195, 211

The Man Who Came to Dinner
(Kaufman and Hart) [play], 52

Manhattan
[film], 180

“Manhattan” (Rodgers and Hart), 83

Mankiewicz, Joseph L., 310, 320, 321, 322

Mantle, Burns, 101

“Many a New Day” (Rodgers and Hammerstein), 54,
55
, 205

“Maria” (Bernstein and Sondheim), 54, 284,
285
, 286, 295, 305, 329, 390

Marie Galante
(Weill and Déval), 140, 141

Marlowe, Christopher, 182

“Marry Me a Little” (Sondheim), 378, W130n95

“Marry the Man Today” (Loesser), 247, 249, 323, W111n16

Marshall, Rob, 364

Marx Brothers, 51, 136

Marx, Groucho, 51, 92, 165

Martin, Ernest.
See
Feuer (Cy) and Martin (Ernest)

Martin, Mary, xi, 147,
149
, 150, 187, 216, W98n20

Mary Poppins
, W126n18

“Masquerade” (Lloyd Webber and Hart), 405

Mast, Gerald, 44, 311, 313, 324, W73n4, W97n1

Mature, Victor, 145

Mattheson, Johann, 389

Mauceri, John, 98–99, 172

“Maybe They’re Magic” (Sondheim), 373

Me and Juliet
(Rodgers and Hammerstein), 213

“Me and My Boss” (Kern and Hammerstein), 24

Meditation XVII
[poem] (Donne), 371

Meeting Scene (from “The Dance at the Gym”) (Bernstein), 305

The megamusical, xx, 394

Die Meistersinger
(Wagner) [opera], 68

Melchior, Lauritz, 68

Mellers, Wilfrid, 68, 112

Melodrama, 350–52

“Memory” (Lloyd Webber and Nunn), 385

Mendelssohn, Felix, 390

Menken (Alan) and Ashman (Howard), xxvi

Mercer, Johnny,
5

Meredith, Burgess, 195

Merman, Ethel, xxiii, xxiv, 44, 45, 50, 60, 158,
163
, 164, 165, 191, 218, 245, 335, 338, 342, 358, 359

Merrily We Roll Along
(Sondheim), 337, 347, 348, 365, 366, 370, 373, 379–81

Discography and Filmography (W17)

The Merry Widow
[film], 155

The Merry Widow
(Lehár), 4, 36, 206, 262

Messiah
(Handel), 26

Mexican Hayride
(Porter), 189, 215

Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 397, 398

Midler, Bette, W125n1

Mielziner, Jo, 104

Milestone, Lewis, 165

“Mill Theme” (Rodgers), 200,
201
, 312

Miller, Ann,
314
, 315, 317

Miller, Marilyn, 22

Miller, Scott, xxii, 388, W131n12

“The Miller’s Son” (Sondheim), 356,
357
, 358

“Mine” (G. and I. Gershwin), 243

Minnelli, Vincente, 190

Minstrel Dream.
See
Circus Dream

“Mis’ry’s Comin’ Aroun’” (Kern and Hammerstein), 24, 27, 29,
30
, 33, 65

Miss Information
(Porter et al.), 42

Miss Liberty
(Berlin), 281

Miss Saigon
(Boublil and Schönberg), xxi, xxvii, 2231, 327

“Mister Snow” (Rodgers and Hammerstein), 204, 312

Mitchell, Abbie, 175

“Mix” (Bernstein and Sondheim), W118n31, W118nn32–34

Molinari, Bernardino, 94

“Moll’s Song.”
See
“I’m Checkin’ Home Now”

Molnár, Ferenc, 195, 196, 197, 210

Monkey Business
[film], 136

Monroe, Marilyn, 188

Monty Python’s Spamalot
(Du Prez and Idle), xxvii

“The Moon of Manakoora” (Loesser and Newman), 234

“Moonburn” (Heyman and Carmichael), 165

Moore, Victor, 43, 46, 164

Mordden, Ethan, 26, 87, 388–89, W73n4, W74n10, W80n46, W81n54, W83n2, W97n1, W103n40, W126n31

“More I Cannot Wish You” (Loesser), 322–23

Morehouse, Ward, 198

Moreno, Rita, 310, 327, W124n1

Morgan, Helen, xxiv, W101n5

Morison, Patricia, 223, 226, W108n24

“Moritat” (Brecht and Weill).
See
“The Ballad of Mack the Knife”

Morley, Michael, W99n39

Moross, Jerome, W133n46

“Most Gentlemen Don’t Like Love” (Porter), 215

Moscow on the Hudson
[film], 151

The Most Happy Fella
(Loesser), xix, xxii, xxvi, 7, 12, 14, 233, 234, 235, 244, 247–59 (
249
), 349

Synopsis (W5)

Discography and Filmography (W17–18)

Appendix A (W27)

Appendix O (W58–59)

Notes (W116n60)

“Move On” (Sondheim), 342, 368

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 9, 44, 136, 143, 389

“Multitudes of Amys” (Sondheim), W130n95

Murray, Bill, 182

“Musetta’s Waltz” (Puccini), 393

Music in the Air
(Kern and Hammerstein), 38, 189

The Music Man
(Willson), xi, 233, 325, W116n2

“Music of the Night” (Lloyd Webber and Hart), 391, 392, 393, 397, 401, 403, 405, 406–7, W132n22

Musical theater types, W75n1

“My Darling, My Darling” (Loesser), 236

“My Heart and I” (Hollander and Robin), 165

“My Heart Belongs to Daddy” (Porter), 215, W98n20

“My Heart Is So Full of You” (Loesser), 248, 257

My Fair Lady
(Lerner and Loewe) [musical], xi, xix, 10, 11, 12, 14, 152, 231–32, 233, 234, 237, 245, 252, 254, 260–78 (
271
), 279, 390

Synopsis (W5–6)

Discography and Filmography (W18)

Appendix A (W28)

Appendix P (W60)

Notes (W107n1, W116n2)

My Fair Lady
[film], xxiii, 10, 277, 310, 317, 323–27 (
323
), 328, 361, 402, W125n25

“My Friends” (Sondheim), 355, 356,
357
, 358, 359

“My Funny Valentine” (Rodgers and Hart), 180

“My Greatest Day” (Bernstein and Sondheim), W118n31

“My Heart Stood Still” (Rodgers and Hart), 83

“My Man” (originally “Mon Homme” by Yvain and Pollock), 105

My Man Godfrey
(Lerner), 278

My One and Only
(G. and I. Gershwin), 13

“My Ship” (Weill and I. Gershwin), 137, 142, 144, 146, 147, 186, 231

“My Time of Day” (Loesser),
239–40
, 322

Nash, Ogden, 134, 140, 151, 152, 187

Nathan, George Jean, 21, 114, 253

Naughty Marietta
(Herbert), 4, 22, W76n5, W98n15

Nelson, Baby Face, 57

Neptune’s Daughter
[film], 235

Nesbitt, Cathleen, 260

“New Art Is True Art: (Weill and Nash), 151

“The New Ashmolean Marching Society and Students’ Conservatory Band” (Loesser), 248

The New Moon
(Romberg and Hammerstein), 39

“New World” Symphony (Dvořák), 29,
30
, 390, W89n77

The New Yorkers
(Porter), 40

Nichols, Lewis, 142

“Nickel Under the Foot” (Blitzstein), 117, 136, 183, 186

Night and Day
[film], 316

“Night and Day” (Porter), 40, 155, 189, 221

Nixon, Marni, 280, 310, 325

“No Life” (Sondheim), 365

“No Matter under What Star You’re Born.”
See
Zodiac Song

No, No Nanette
(Youmans and Caesar), 4, 348

“No One Is Alone” (Sondheim), 371, 379, 382

“No One Would Listen” (Lloyd Webber and Hart).
See
“Learn to Be Lonely”

No Strings
(Rodgers), 169, 213

Noah, Timothy, W84n25

“Nobody Else But Me” (Kern and Hammerstein), 25, 26

Nolan, Frederick, W93n54

“Non la sospiri la nostra casetta” (Puccini), W115n46

“No Place Like London” (Sondheim), 255, 356,
357
, 359

Norton, Elliot, 197

“Not While I’m Around” (Sondheim), 359

“Notes” (Lloyd Webber and Hart), 405

Notting Hill
[film], 327

Novak, Kim, 180

“Now,” “Later,” “Soon” (Sondheim), 243, 359

Nunn, Trevor, xviii, xxvii, 69, 171, 173, 175–76, 189, 309, 314, 385

O’Connor, Donald, 159

O’Hara, John, 101, 103, 104, 105, 178

O’Malley, Rex, W101n68

O’Toole, Peter, 324

Of Thee I Sing
(G. and I. Gershwin), 12, 13, 40, 60–61, 115

“Oh, Bess, Oh Where’s My Bess” (G. and I. Gershwin), 62, 172

“Oh, Doctor Jesus” (Gershwin and Heyward), 72

“Oh, Happy We” (Bernstein and Wilbur), 286

“Oh, I Can’t Sit Down!” (G. and I. Gershwin), 76, 169, W89n79

“Oh, What a Beautiful Morning” (Rodgers and Hammerstein), 211, 341–42