Shows · That’s Entertainment
That's Entertainment is a 1972 musical revue featuring the music of songwriting team Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz that uses orchestrations and arrangements by Luther Henderson. The show's book was crafted by uncredited writers.
- Opened
- 1972
- Performances
- 4
- Type
- Revue
- Era
- Revolution
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1972 | Edison Theatre Original. April 14, 1972 · Paul Aaron | 4 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
7 passages naming That’s Entertainment, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Today, Fabray is most likely remembered by musical comedy lovers as one of the quartet who introduced Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz’s standard “That’s Entertainment” in MGM’s classic 1953 film musical The Band Wagon. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p28
The two-CD set by That’s Entertainment (# CDTER2-1170) includes “Bored,” “In the Beginning, Woman,” “Golden Land, Golden Life,” “My Magic Lamp,” and “Power” (the latter written for, but not used in, Timbuktu! ). book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p355
'That’s Entertainment”—written for 1953 movie version book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p269
'That’s Entertainment’’. His skill also displayed itself in outstanding rhythmic work (“I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan” and the 1954 movie song ‘‘That’s Entertainment’’). book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p282
Dietz and Schwartz wrote one new song for the movie, the jaunty and clever show-business salute “That’s Entertainment,” which quickly took its place with Irving Berlin’s “There’s No Business Like Show Business” (Annie Get Your Gun, 1946) and Cole Porter’s “Another Op’nin’, Another Show” (Kiss Me, Kate, 1948) as part of… book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p151
The Band Wagon is climaxed by the one new song that Schwartz and Dietz wrote especially for the movie, the rousing, quip-filled “That’s Entertainment.” Appropriately enough, that song became the theme and title of the two outstanding compilation features that MGM made in 1974 and 1976 paying tribute to its best musical… book:the-melody-lingers-on-the-great-songwriters-and-their-movie-hemming-roy-new-york#p364
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