There is also reference to the songbooks of Frank Sinatra and
Ella Fitzgerald.
Louis Emerick as Paul Robeson, Linda Johnpierre as
Ella Fitzgerald and Amber Sinclair as Annie Ross were believable as Holiday's contemporaries, all backed by a fine band and clever mixing of theatre with newsreels gave a feeling of the Jazz Era in a stark production which runs until tomorrow.
QUIZ CHALLENGE: 1 The Tower of Babel' 2 HMS Torrin' 3
Ella Fitzgerald' 4 The River Severn' 5 The calf.
He produced more than 500 plays and musicals in a career that spanned better than 50 years with stars including Louis Armstrong, Tony Bennett, Jack Benny and
Ella Fitzgerald.
The likes of Frank Sinatra,
Ella Fitzgerald and Doris Day all rapidly became more popular than the orchestras they had once fronted.
Lush Life is the opening song of a play constructed around a total of 17 songs which were performed by
Ella Fitzgerald. Sirett and director Max Roberts have made an interesting selection including A-Tisket A-Tasket, I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good), Black Coffee, Mack the Knife and Prelude to a Kiss.
Taurus rules the throat and Taurean singers include Barbra Streisand,
Ella Fitzgerald and Roy Orbison.
Her story, like that of Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey,
Ella Fitzgerald, and other women blues and jazz greats, is that of a woman born poor and black in a racist, sexist society that neither expected nor encouraged her to grow or flourish.
Yet any album that unites
Ella Fitzgerald's "Someone to Watch Over Me," Gladys Knight's "Midnight Train to Georgia," and Annie Lennox's "Why" is obviously doing something pink.
At this time he was a skateboarding Dinosaur Jnr fan but was suddenly struck by an
Ella Fitzgerald track.
The baby was named after the flowers that 24-year-old Stuart gave Mel, 23, after they began their relationship, and their idol, singing legend
Ella Fitzgerald.
It and other softer works contrasted harshly with Ann Reinking's brutal choreography in "My Heart Belongs to Me" (to Barbra Streisand) and "Sentimental Journey," whose black-underwear costumes, venetian-blind lighting, and self-caressing gestures were odd accompaniment to
Ella Fitzgerald's mellow, sweet voice and rolling phrases.