Broadway Swings! is a two-act musical evening which brings to life the best Broadway music of the 30's, 40's and 50's. Featured in the video sampler are the original cast members, representing today's top cabaret and recording artists--Ann Hampton Callaway, Wesla Whitfield, and Karrin Allyson, the award-winning gospel/pop vocal group The Jenny Burton Experience, and featuring an eighteeen-piece swing Big Band, Broadway Swings! is an evening-long salute to the music of Rodgers and Hammerstien, Cole Porter, The Gershwins, Loerner and Loewe, Harold Arlen and Irving Berlin, to name but a few.
With all-new jazz and swing instrumental arrangements by Mike Greensill, and exciting vocal arrangements by Tony-nominated Peter Link and Margaret Dorn, Broadway Swings! is a powerhouse musical celebration for the whole family.
The blending of Broadway song with jazz and swing is a marriage made in heaven. The carefully crafted lyrics and melodies of Broadway music provide the perfect launching pad for the jazz musician who brings swing, grace, and excitement to each song's performance.
In fact, the definitive versions of Broadway songs have almost always come from pop singers (Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald, etc.), or from Jazz musicians (Louis Armstrong, Billy Holiday, Stan Gets, etc.) rather then from the Original Cast Recordings.
Jazz musicians have, in turn, brought much to Broadway. Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Eubie Blake, Andy Razaf all wrote for the Broadway stage, bringing us such treasures as Ain't Misbehavin', Memories of You, and Sophisticated Ladies.
Broadway Swings! combines the best of Broadway and Jazz, letting audiences hear their favorite songs in a whole new way, as if for the first time.
-Act One-
I Got Lost in His Arms
I Got Rhythm
At Long Last Love
Makin' Whoopee
Something's Coming
We Kiss in a Shadow
Can't We Be Friends
Instrumental Sextet
It Never Entered My Mind
The Lady is a Tramp
I've Got a Crush on You
Just One of Those Things
Fascinatin' rhythm
-Act Two-
Fugue for Tin Horns
I'm beginning to See the Light
Stormy Weather
People Will Say We're in Love
I Love Paris
Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boadt
My Romance
Instrumental
Soon
Every Time We Say Goodbye
Don't Rain on my Parade
I Got Rhythm (Reprise)
Fascinatin' Rhythm (Reprise)