Tag: Gene Kelly

Episode 31: Ziegfeld Follies (Part 2)

Ziegfeld Follies

http://media.blubrry.com/reeledumusical/reeledumusical.com/upload/podcast-reeledumusical/arem0031.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSThis week, your hosts finish our discussion of ZIEGFELD FOLLIES, that star-studded dud of a musical revue. They say that failure is a great teacher, and we certainly learned a lot about what we don’t like, and what doesn’t work, watching this one. If you …

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Episode 30: Ziegfeld Follies (Part 1)

Ziegfeld Follies

http://media.blubrry.com/reeledumusical/reeledumusical.com/upload/podcast-reeledumusical/arem0030.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSJazz Hams, this week your hosts discover a movie that none of us had seen – ZIEGFELD FOLLIES. This movie has been mentioned frequently in other episodes whenever we would check a major movie star’s resume and find that they, too, had also been in …

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Episode 17: Kiss Me Kate

Kiss Me Kate

http://media.blubrry.com/reeledumusical/reeledumusical.com/upload/podcast-reeledumusical/arem0017.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSThe Fossepocalypse begins! KISS ME KATE boasts so many amazing things (Howard Keel in striped tights! Tommy Rall defying gravity! James Whitmore as the most adorable thug ever!) that you might forget that this is also the movie that put Bob Fosse on the map. …

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Episode 15: It’s Always Fair Weather

It's Always Fair Weather

http://media.blubrry.com/reeledumusical/reeledumusical.com/upload/podcast-reeledumusical/arem0015.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSThis week is unusual in that none of your hosts have seen our movie – IT’S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER! Known today as the movie that “the Gene Kelly tapping on roller skates” dance is from, 1955’s IT’S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER pretty much marks the end …

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Episode 13: Xanadu

Xanadu

http://media.blubrry.com/reeledumusical/reeledumusical.com/upload/podcast-reeledumusical/arem0013.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSThis week, Mike and Vinnie struggle to keep up as Windy lays out several decades of her obsession with XANADU. Mike had never seen it, Vinnie never on the big screen, and it was showing at the Alamo Drafthouse so this was an EVENT, capital …

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Episode 8: On the Town

On the Town

http://media.blubrry.com/reeledumusical/reeledumusical.com/upload/podcast-reeledumusical/arem0008.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSThis week is our first episode featuring Gene Kelly as he sails through Manhattan in ON THE TOWN! Neither Vinnie nor Mike had ever seen it, and this is a classic for a reason. Based on a ballet created by Jerome Robbins (THE KING & I), …

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