March is almost over, but we’re still in time for one of the monthly celebrations on this week’s Dress Circle (3/30 7:00 p.m.): celebrating Foreign Language Month! We’ve dug through out collection to come up with fourteen songs from English language musicals from foreign casts.
The languages include French, German, Swedish, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, and Icelandic.
The musicals are by composers such as Sigmund Romberg, Marvin Hamlisch, Jerry Herman, Charles Strouse, Cy Coleman, Alan Menken, and more, and they include popular stage works like “La Cage Aux Folles,” “Man of La Mancha,” “Grease,” “West Side Story,” and “My Fair Lady,” among others.
We’ll also hear from three scores from Disney animated features: “Pinocchio,” “Beauty and the Beast,” and “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.”
There are more shows than we’ve listed, but you’ll just have to tune in to hear what we’ve included. We love listening to foreign language casts for that wonderful sense of unfamiliar familiarity.
