Harlem Repertory Theatre Does the Wizard of Oz Featured on New York Live TV!!

August 30, 2019 ypadmin

Check out this NBC segment that aired 8/27/19 about our Wizard of Oz: A Jazz Musical for All Ages, a unique 21st century take!

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Quote of the Month

Love notes seem to fill the air everywhere I go,
Love songs seem to flow from my radio;
They just take the moon and June and put it to a tune,
It’s like eating pie,
But why can’t I? . . . .

When you’re far away,
I mean near me,
What I mean to say,
Is oh dear me!
How I wish
I could sing a love song.

Lyric excerpt: “How I Wish I Could Sing a Love Song”
words by Yip Harburg, music by John W. Green
from The Sap from Syracuse (Paramount feature film), 1930
sung by Jack Oakie to Ginger Rogers

Yip would take the “love-struck inarticulation” aspect of this lyric much further three years later in “I Like the Likes of You” to music by Vernon Duke in The Ziegfeld Follies, 1933-34 edition. See Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz? Yip Harburg, Lyricist, by Harold Meyerson and Ernie Harburg (University of Michigan Press, 1993) for further details.

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