OOOOH...That Broadway Rhythm!

 From Singin' in the Rain

to Yankee Doodle Dandy,

everybody sings about Broadway...

Gene Kelly (above AND below)

in the Broadway Melody Ballet,

which is actually 2 songs with 3 parts:
Broadway Melody...from the show Broadway Melody (1929)

and

Broadway Rhythm...from Broadway Melody of 1936.

And then they threw in a ballet, and THAT was written by Nacio Herb Brown.

And I always thought it was called

"Gotta Dance!"

The Spamalot gang

will be at it on Sunday, too,

with "You Won't Succeed On Broadway".

Hank Azaria, David Hyde Pierce, Tim Curry,

Christopher Sieber, and Steve Rosen.

Over 1500 performance and a Best Musical Tony Award!

 Camelot is a silly place.

 From a non-Broadway production 

of Annie,

but still you get the gist of "N.Y.C."!

Reid Shelton, Dorothy Loudon, Andrea McCardle,

and Sandy Faison.

When Dorothy left the production,

she was replaced by Alice Ghostley, Betty Hutton,

and June Havoc, just to name a few.

 The Drifters Faux

and The Drifters Veritas!

The real ones recorded "On Broadway",

the creation of Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann

(with a little help from their friends, 

Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller) back in 1963.

Come 2014,

the quartet above sang the song as part of
Beautiful: The Carol King Musical.

E. Clayton Cornelious, Douglas Lyons, 

Arbender Robinson and James Harkness.

 "The King Of Broadway"

now wearing a cardboard belt!

Nathan Lane as Max Bialystock sings a Mel Brooks' ballad

(which seems an oxymoron to me)

as Mathew and Shakey look on

in The Producers.

 George M. Cohan loved Broadway

(in fact he was dubbed "the man who owned Broadway"),

running as many as 5 shows on the

Great White Way at a time.

Jimmy Cagney got to sing those Cohan goodies

in Yankee Doodle Dandy,

which Cohan got to see just before he died.

 His comment on Cagney's performance was, 

"My God, what an act to follow!"

Pictured with James...Joan Leslie.

 Liza with Charles Aznavour,

in a concert they paired up for 

in Paris in 1991.

Long live 90's pink palazzo fashion!

John Kander and Fred Ebb loved writing for 

for Miss M,

and "New York, New York" was one of their gifts.

Liza turned 72 this March, and btw,

Charles is 94!