It's not going to be a lazy afternoon when the great Golden Age musical comedy star, Kaye Ballard, sits down with Rob in her Palm Springs home to look back on her incredible career that includes the original productions of The Golden Apple, Carnival, Molly, Plus Top Banana with Phil Silvers, The Mothers-in-law with Eve Arden, Cinderella with Julie Andrews, and countless appearances on The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, and The Muppet Show.
- 11/26/2017
- by Behind the Curtain
- BroadwayWorld.com
“Wait for Your Laugh,” the new documentary charting the 90-year show business career of Rose Marie, includes an anecdote about the time the actress stood up to a film producer who sexually harassed her in the 1950s. In an interview with Vulture on Thursday, the “Dick Van Dyke Show” star discussed the incident, which took place during the creation of the film adaptation of her Broadway musical “Top Banana.” “I did my number called ‘I Fought Every Step of the Way’ … And when I got through, a man came over to me and said, ‘That was very good, and this.
- 11/2/2017
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Phil Silvers was a comedy icon in his day, and along with starring in his TV series The Phil Silvers Show (as Master Sgt. Ernie Bilko) and The New Phil Silvers Show, he had notable success on the stage in two Tony Award winning productions A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Top Banana. Even though Top Banana didn’t have Steven Sondheim as a writer like A Funny Thing, it easily wins out as the production most representative of Silvers’ own comedic stylings. Top Banana is an onslaught of one-liners broken up with the occasional musical numbers. For modern audiences, Top Banana’s comedy might be a bit stale but the energy it carries over from its theatrical roots helps to carry it along so quickly that its faults are easy to overlook. Though a few clever camera choices mask the simplistic sets by which the story takes place,...
- 11/1/2011
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
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