July 15
Nathan Lane: A Tribute to Danny Kaye
EVENING AT POPS welcomes special guest Nathan Lane for its third new show of the season on Thursday, July 15 at 8pm (check local listings). Lauded for his Broadway roles in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Love! Valor! Compassion!, Lane has also won critical acclaim for his work in Hollywood films and television, including a Golden Globe nomination for his performance in The Birdcage and a Daytime Emmy Award for his work as the voice of "Timon" in Disney's The Lion King's Timon and Pumbaa. (Lane voiced the same role in the original hit movie, The Lion King.) Backed by the Boston Pops Orchestra, the star of stage, screen, and television puts on quite a show to honor the musical genius of Danny Kaye. The evening's extravaganza comes complete with costume changes and numbers from Hans Christian Andersen, The Court Jester, Straw Hat Review, Five Pennies, and Mommy, Gimme A Drinka Water.
Concert Program
- "There's No Business Like Show Business," Irving Berlin arr. Stevens from Annie Get Your Gun
- "Life Could Not Better Be," Sylvia Fine/Sammy Cahn from The Court Jester
- "The Maladjusted Jester," Sylvia Fine/Sammy Cahn from The Court Jester
- "Lullaby in Ragtime," Sylvia Fine/Kaye arr. Sebesky from The Five Pennies with Thomas Martin, clarinet
- Selections from Mommy, Gimme a Drinka Water, Milton Schafer arr. Tunick
with the children's chorus from Performing Artists at Lincoln School (PALS)
"I'm Five"
"I Like Old People, Don't You?"
"Crazy Barbara"
"Colored Kisses"
"Mommy, Gimme a Drinka Water" - "Ballin' the Jack" Smith/Burris arr. Chase
- Selections from Hans Christian Andersen Frank Loesser
with the children's chorus from Performing Artists at Lincoln School (PALS)
"Hans Christian Andersen"
"The King's New Clothes"
"Inch Worm"
"Anywhere I Wander" - "Tchaikovsky (and other Russians)," Kurt Weill/Ira Gershwin from Lady In the Dark
- "Galop" from Moscow Cheremushky Dmitri Shostakovich
- Excerpts from Pictures at an Exhibition Modest Mussorgsky arr. Maurice
Ravel
The Hut on Fowl's Legs
The Great Gate of Kiev