Musical Comedy Time
Musical Comedy Time is an anthology television series broadcast on CBS in 1950 and 1951. It was the first television program in the medium's history to feature televised adaptations of musical theatre works from the Broadway stage.[1] These adaptations were abridged versions of the musicals and only presented part of the work to fit within a television series's time limits.[2] The premiere broadcast on October 2, 1950, broadcast twice monthly, featured a television adaptation of Cole Porter's Anything Goes with Ethel Merman reprising her role from the original 1934 Broadway production.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Anthony Enns (2021). "Live Musical Spectaculars". In Julie Lobalzo Wright, Martha Shearer (ed.). Musicals at the Margins: Genre, Boundaries, Canons. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 218.
- ^ Thomas S. Hischak (2008). "Musical Comedy Time". The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television. Oxford University Press. p. 516. ISBN 9780199887323.
- ^ Kelly Kessler (2020). Broadway in the Box: Television's Lasting Love Affair with the Musical. Oxford University Press. p. 24. ISBN 9780190674038.
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