The Oldest Profession
Series: Broadway Matinee - Songs from the Stage & Screen
From: Janean Jorgensen
Length: 00:59:00
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Not everything on Broadway is bright, shiny, family-friendly or legal. The Oldest Profession is featured on stage more often than you might think. A couple of the songs are even written by women. I'm Janean Jorgensen, take a walk on the seedier side of the street with classics from Cole Porter, Leonard Bernstein, Cy Coleman, Dorothy Fields, Stephen Sondheim and more on the Broadway Matinee
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Not everything on Broadway is bright, shiny, family-friendly or legal. The Oldest Profession is featured on stage more often than you might think. A couple of the songs are even written by women. I'm Janean Jorgensen, take a walk on the seedier side of the street with classics from Cole Porter, Leonard Bernstein, Cy Coleman, Dorothy Fields, Stephen Sondheim and more on the Broadway Matinee
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Welcome to the Broadway matinee, songs from the stage and screen. I'm Janean Jorgensen. As the mother of an elementary school student, I believe in exposing kids to the theater. However, the songs on today's program are about exposure of a completely different kind. The world's Oldest profession - prostitution - is a factor in a surprising number of musicals. Maybe when you think about it, it's not all THAT surprising. Novels are filled with sordid tales, and many musicals are based on literary works. Take Leonard Bernstein's Candide, based on Voltaire's social satire, where the enginue is captured and forced to be a plaything, with some bejeweled compensation. This is Christy-anne Noll.
The cast of The Life, Cy Coleman's almost-nostalgic take on Times Square before it was Disneyfied. These ladies portrayed today want you to know the best things in life are NOT free. For many of these...
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Welcome to the Broadway matinee, songs from the stage and screen. I'm Janean Jorgensen. As the mother of an elementary school student, I believe in exposing kids to the theater. However, the songs on today's program are about exposure of a completely different kind. The world's Oldest profession - prostitution - is a factor in a surprising number of musicals. Maybe when you think about it, it's not all THAT surprising. Novels are filled with sordid tales, and many musicals are based on literary works. Take Leonard Bernstein's Candide, based on Voltaire's social satire, where the enginue is captured and forced to be a plaything, with some bejeweled compensation. This is Christy-anne Noll.
The cast of The Life, Cy Coleman's almost-nostalgic take on Times Square before it was Disneyfied. These ladies portrayed today want you to know the best things in life are NOT free. For many of these...
Read the full transcript
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