llf DRI=AM Of A CANADIAN MUSI GAL"Jlby Mel Atkey, TRfAROUTTl-JIROOKDid you know that the ideabehind the Radio City MusicHall Rockettes was first triedout in Toronto? That Canadaproduced the world's longestrunningannual revue? Fewpeople realize the Canadianinfluences that are at the heart ofAmerican and British culture.Author Mel Atkey's researchfor Broadway North includedinterviews with Norman andElaine Campbell and Don Harron,creators of Anne of Green Gables - TheMusical; Mavm Moore, founder of theCharlottetown Festival and of SpringI1ww; John Gray, author of Billy BishopGoes to War; Ray Jessel and MarianGrudeff, Spring Thaw writers who hadsuccess on Broadway with Baker Street;Dolores Oaman, composer of the HockeyNight In Canada theme, who also wrotethe musicals Mr. Scrooge and Timber!!; andGalt MacDermot, the composer of Hairwho started out writing songs for the McGillUniversity revue My Fiw Lady. Included is thephenomenal success of The Drowsy Chaperone.Atkey also draws on his own experience as a writer and composerof musicals, and tells the story of why a show that should havestan:ed James Doohan (Star TJ·ek's Scotty) didn 't happen.
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