Monday night, I had the opportunity to take archive photos for Sunset Playhouse's concert Golden Age of Broadway. This concert is part of their "Musical Mainstage" series of shows that they put on throughout the year. The unique part of this series is that the concerts take place on the set of the current main stage production. In this case, it was Lucky Stiff, which provided the best backdrop for this type of show, with a fountain, café tables & chairs, and painted greenery.
Golden Age of Broadway was full of familiar show tunes from musicals that were popular from the 1930's to the early 1960's. There were songs from Oklahoma, Show Boat, Gypsy, My Fair Lady, and The Sound of Music, just to name a few.
The main cast consisted of five singers, but even the hosts (below) got into the act, singing "Do You Love Me?" from one of my favorite musicals, Fiddler On The Roof.
Golden Age of Broadway was Sunset Playhouse's last "Musical Mainstage" show for the season, but next season will provide more concerts such as One Singular Sensation: A Tribute to Marvin Hamlisch, Broadway's Best Star Turns, and Time Capsule: The Sixties, Part II. Information and tickets can be found here.
On a side note, if you read my blog post for Lucky Stiff, I mentioned that when I took the publicity photos for the show the set had not yet been completed. Below is what the finished set looks like, and I think the scenery designer did a fantastic job.
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