Shoshana Greenberg returns the favor and hosts me on her podcast, Scene to Song! We discuss musicals, Episode 5 of The Hitchcock Gays (plus all the topics I neglected to include in it), and things we're looking forward to in the theatre world.
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Scene to Song Episode 116: Musical Theater in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock
Originally aired December 9, 2024
In this episode, composer, lyricist, and playwright Spencer Robelen discusses musical theater in the films of Alfred Hitchcock, from his early silent movies to Waltzes from Vienna to Stage Fright to The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956). We also talk about the song "Miss Up-to-Date" from his 1929 film Blackmail.
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Music played in this episode:
"Like a Star in the Sky" from Waltzes from Vienna
"With All My Heart" from Waltzes from Vienna
"The Laziest Gal in Town" by Cole Porter, sung by Marlene Dietrich in Stage Fright
"Que Sera Sera" by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, sung by Doris Day in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
"Miss Up-to-Date" by Billy Mayerl and Frank Eyton, sung by Cyril Ritchard in Blackmail
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