20110521 Happy Wanderers Cole Porter

Title:-   20110521 Happy Wanderers Cole Porter     Author:-    Pedro Morais    

Subject:-   Happy Wanderers Singing Cole Porter  

Location:-   High Town Methodist Church Hall     Date:-    21 May 2011    Time:-    7.30pm  

 Media:-   HDV1080i, DVD      Duration:-   1 Hr. 52 Mins.  

A COLE PORTER GALA
By The Happy Wanderers

Cole Porter (June 9, 1891 - October 15, 1964) was an American composer
and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Peru, Indiana, he defied the
wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession.
Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre. After a slow
start, he began to achieve success in the 1920s, and by the 1930s he was
one of the major songwriters for the Broadway musical stage. Unlike most
successful Broadway composers, Cole Porter wrote both the lyrics and the
music for his songs.

After a serious horseback riding accident in 1937, Cole Porter was left
disabled and in constant pain, but he continued to work. His shows of the
early 1940s did not contain the lasting hits of his best works of the 1920s
and 30s, but in 1947 he made a triumphant comeback with his most
successful musical, "Kiss Me, Kate".

Cole Porter's other musicals include "Fifty Million Frenchmen", "Du Barry
was a Lady", "Anything Goes", "High Society" and "Can Can" and his
numerous hit songs include "Night and Day", "I Get a Kick out of You",
"Well, Did You Ever?" and "I've Got You Under My Skin". He also
composed scores for films from the 1930s to the 1950s. He was noted for
his sophisticated, suggestive lyrics, clever rhymes and complex forms.

		TAKING PART

		JUDITH COEN
		RICHARD GARWOOD
		ANTHONY GORDON
		VALMA JAMES
		ANN MAGEE
		HARRY RAPPAPORT
		KEN ROBBINS
		BORIS SHAMUL
		JOYCE SITALI
		TANYA SMITH
		SISSI SUN
(At the piano) - TONY HEATHCOTE

	PROGRAMME - A COLE PORTER GALA

1.	Another opening, another show	Company
2.	Blow, Gabriel Blow		Judith & Company
3.	I get a kick out of you		Boris
4.	I love you			Harry
5.	In the still of the night	Richard
6.	Don't fence me in		Ann
7.	You'd be so nice to come home to Tanya
8.	Easy to love			Anthony
9.	Anything goes			Sissi

	  KISS ME KATE

10.	Always true to you in my fashion Judith
11.	So in love			Boris & Tanya
12.	Brush up your Shakespeare	Harry
13.	True Love			Ken, Ann & Richard
14.	My heart belongs to Daddy	Valma
15.	Rosalie				Anthony
16.	I've got my eyes on you		Sissi
17.	Begin the Beguine		Richard & Girls


INTERVAL

	 IN FRANCE

1.	I love Paris			Company
2.	C'est magnifique		Ann
3.	Oo-la-la *			Harry & Ann
4.	Every time we say goodbye	Judith
5.	Night and day			Richard
6.	Just one of those things	Joyce
7.	Let's do it			Ken
8.	Well, did you ever?		Boris & Harry
9.	You do something to me		Ann
10.	It's delovely			Tanya
11.	Who wants to be a millionaire?	Boris & Sissi
12.	Friendship			Judith & Harry
13.	I concentrate on you		Anthony
14.	Be a clown			Ken
15.	I love you, Samantha		Boris
16.	I've got you under my skin	Harry
17.	You're the top			Company

All songs with music and lyrics by Cole Porter
(except * words and music by Harry Rappaport)