Stage Writes
The Official Stage Rights Blog
Entries for tag "hollywood_1"
Featured Play of the Week: Tales of Tinseltown
Posted 3.20.2018
Announcements,
satire,
Golden Age,
Hollywood,
musical
The NY Times calls this week's Stage Rights featured musical Tales of Tinseltown "Delicious satire" and "an ambitious, pure Hollywood musical."
“Strip the phony tinsel off Hollywood and you’ll find the real tinsel underneath.” –Oscar Levant
Hollywood Babylon. Rodgers & Hart. That’s Entertainment II. Those were some of the inspirations behind the creation of Tales of Tinseltown by composer Paul Katz and myself.
In the movie tribute, That’s Entertainment II (1976), there’s a section about a bunch of Hollywood stars who hopped on the musical movie bandwagon ...