Theatre News and Reviews

Certain songs just seem to belong to the people who made them famous. “Over the Rainbow,” for instance, belongs to Judy Garland even though it was written by E.Y. Harburg and Harold Arlen.

Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin wrote “The Trolley Song” and Harburg and Arlen wrote “I Could Go On Singing” - but these too are somehow hers.

Vocalist Linda Stieber has taken these and other Garland hits and woven them into a two-act tribute to the singer entitled, “Get Happy: The Music of Judy Garland.” The show opened in the Studio Theatre at the Broadway Theatre Center on Friday, with David Brady as music director/pianist.

Stieber’s selections are great representations of what was the golden age of American pop music. Tunes such as “Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody,” “Get Happy” and “I Wish I Were in Love Again” are tough to beat. She also includes an oddity or two such as “The Jitterbug,” a tune that was cut from “The Wizard of Oz.”

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