Had The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N recorded a Broadway cast album in 1968, we'd be talking about Barbara Minkus's sensational performance of her showstopping 11:00 ballad, "When Will I Learn?" A lot.
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She included this when she did her one-woman show for one night at the York a few years ago. She still sounds fabulous.
jan 10, 2025, 6:06 am • 1 0 • view
Such a charming show! I’d love to hear those orchestrations live one day. 🤞🏻
jan 10, 2025, 3:00 am • 1 0 • view
Who's our Rose?
jan 10, 2025, 3:03 am • 0 0 • view
Well, if I’m dreaming big, the first that comes to mind is Michaela Diamond.
jan 10, 2025, 3:08 am • 1 0 • view
You do the lord’s work, Kevin
jan 10, 2025, 3:55 am • 3 0 • view
I loved the books but never knew anything about the musical.
jan 10, 2025, 2:45 am • 1 0 • view
I was trying to figure out why I had heard of this show and it's 100% because Donna McKechnie was in it
jan 10, 2025, 2:55 am • 1 0 • view
Minkus played Rose Mitnick, a girl arranged to be married to Hal Linden as Yissel, who longs to be an old-fashioned husband (which is, incidentally, the title of *his* showstopper) "When Will I Learn?" is the moment when she takes control of her own life and decides not to marry him.
jan 10, 2025, 2:35 am • 2 0 • view
Minkus was also the standby for Mimi Hines in the original production of Funny Girl. She has yet to appear in another Broadway musical, but her emotive belting is very much in line with her 60s contemporaries: Liza/Barbra/Eydie/Lainie, etc.
jan 10, 2025, 2:41 am • 3 0 • view
The great surprise about The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N—whose opening night was interrupted at intermission with the harrowing news that MLK Jr. had been assassinated—is that its score has its charms and is better than the show's mixed reception would suggest.
jan 10, 2025, 2:43 am • 3 0 • view
It was a charm show and it needed raves to survive. It ran all of 29 performances. And as I said, no cast recording was made, but a live tape survives of the OBC. Lonny Price directed an off-Broadway revival in 1989. A modest score that got away.
jan 10, 2025, 2:44 am • 7 0 • view
The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N was one of four musicals featured in my dissertation. I later turned the research into a cabaret featuring quite a few of the songs from the musical. I hope to keep the project going in the next year. I love this show.
jan 10, 2025, 5:33 am • 1 0 • view
Tom Bosley?!
jan 10, 2025, 11:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh yeah,would I Love to hear her DROMP!
jan 10, 2025, 8:00 pm • 1 0 • view
That was Linden's first lead, right?
jan 10, 2025, 2:44 am • 0 0 • view
He had replaced in a couple of principal roles (notably taking over for Sydney Chaplin in Bells Are Ringing for the last eight months of the run and was a prominent standby. But this was probably his most prominent opening credit to date (he had an "and" credit)
jan 10, 2025, 2:52 am • 0 1 • view
It always amused me that he was one of the members of the Bells Are Ringing cast that made it into the film
jan 10, 2025, 2:55 am • 1 0 • view
Wow!
jan 10, 2025, 2:43 am • 2 0 • view
She's incredible.
jan 10, 2025, 2:54 am • 2 0 • view
Wait, that's Barbara Minkus from Love, American Style??!!
jan 10, 2025, 3:09 am • 1 0 • view
Yep.
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