Tonic Jukebox History
WEEK 47 - Work Experience
This week we are offering you some work experience. Very useful if you are considering a career change.
You will meet a tutor, some diamond miners, a gentleman’s hairdresser, a governess, a couple of thieves, and some farmers.
Monday February 1
Tutor
The best of all possible worlds
A song from Leonard Bernstein's Candide sung by Dr. Pangloss and his 4 students.
In this extract Pangloss is sung by the highly respected British baritone Sir Thomas Allen. While working (aged 22) as an Assistant Stage Manager at British Youth Opera, daughter Rachel was standing in the wings during a rehearsal of The Magic Flute. Next to her was a rather dishevelled middle-aged chap in an old raincoat. Turning to him, she enthused, "You can't beat a Mozart overture". Sir Thomas could only agree with Rachel.
Performance
Tuesday February 2
Diamond miners
Heigh Ho
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions. Based on the 1812 German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, it is the first full-length traditionally animated feature film and the first Disney animated feature film.
In this scene, each dwarf has a specific job: Grumpy, Happy, Bashful and Sneezy dig to unearth diamonds; Sleepy collects the diamonds in a mine cart and transports them to Doc, who determines which diamonds should be kept; rejected diamonds are swept up and thrown away by Dopey.
Performance
Wednesday February 3
Gentleman's hairdresser
Largo al factotum
Sir Thomas Allen performs 'Largo Al Factotum' from The Barber of Seville by Rossini during the Prom at the Palace event held to celebrate the Queen's Golden Jubilee, 2002. The year after his encounter with Rachel (see Monday).
Performance
Thursday February 4
Governess
Getting to Know You
As you probably know, this is from the 1951 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I. It was first sung by Gertrude Lawrence in the original Broadway production and later by Marni Nixon who dubbed for Deborah Kerr in the 1956 film adaptation. In the show, Anna, a British schoolteacher who has been hired as a governess, sings the song with the children and the wives of the King of Siam.
Performance
Friday February 5
Thieves
Master of the House
From the musical Les Misérables (Les Mis) by Claude-Michel Schönberg (music), Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel (original French lyrics), and Herbert Kretzmer (English lyrics). The original French production premiered in 1980. Its English language adaptation dates from 1985. Initially, critical reviews for Les Misérables were negative. At the opening of the London production, The Sunday Telegraph's Francis King described the musical as "a lurid Victorian melodrama produced with Victorian lavishness", and Michael Ratcliffe of The Observer considered the show "a witless and synthetic entertainment". The theatre-going public disagreed.
In this song Thénardier and his wife sing about how they cheat their customers, stealing their possessions and setting high prices for low-quality service, and live a life of criminal depravity.
Original cast recording
Weekend February 6/7
Farmers and Cowboys
The Farmer and the Cowman
Oklahoma! was the first musical written by Rodgers and Hammerstein. The original Broadway production opened on 31 March 1943. It was a box office hit and ran for an unprecedented 2,212 performances. The Farmer and the Cowman illustrates some of the tensions between the early settlers.
Performance
You will meet a tutor, some diamond miners, a gentleman’s hairdresser, a governess, a couple of thieves, and some farmers.
Monday February 1
Tutor
The best of all possible worlds
A song from Leonard Bernstein's Candide sung by Dr. Pangloss and his 4 students.
In this extract Pangloss is sung by the highly respected British baritone Sir Thomas Allen. While working (aged 22) as an Assistant Stage Manager at British Youth Opera, daughter Rachel was standing in the wings during a rehearsal of The Magic Flute. Next to her was a rather dishevelled middle-aged chap in an old raincoat. Turning to him, she enthused, "You can't beat a Mozart overture". Sir Thomas could only agree with Rachel.
Performance
Tuesday February 2
Diamond miners
Heigh Ho
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions. Based on the 1812 German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, it is the first full-length traditionally animated feature film and the first Disney animated feature film.
In this scene, each dwarf has a specific job: Grumpy, Happy, Bashful and Sneezy dig to unearth diamonds; Sleepy collects the diamonds in a mine cart and transports them to Doc, who determines which diamonds should be kept; rejected diamonds are swept up and thrown away by Dopey.
Performance
Wednesday February 3
Gentleman's hairdresser
Largo al factotum
Sir Thomas Allen performs 'Largo Al Factotum' from The Barber of Seville by Rossini during the Prom at the Palace event held to celebrate the Queen's Golden Jubilee, 2002. The year after his encounter with Rachel (see Monday).
Performance
Thursday February 4
Governess
Getting to Know You
As you probably know, this is from the 1951 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I. It was first sung by Gertrude Lawrence in the original Broadway production and later by Marni Nixon who dubbed for Deborah Kerr in the 1956 film adaptation. In the show, Anna, a British schoolteacher who has been hired as a governess, sings the song with the children and the wives of the King of Siam.
Performance
Friday February 5
Thieves
Master of the House
From the musical Les Misérables (Les Mis) by Claude-Michel Schönberg (music), Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel (original French lyrics), and Herbert Kretzmer (English lyrics). The original French production premiered in 1980. Its English language adaptation dates from 1985. Initially, critical reviews for Les Misérables were negative. At the opening of the London production, The Sunday Telegraph's Francis King described the musical as "a lurid Victorian melodrama produced with Victorian lavishness", and Michael Ratcliffe of The Observer considered the show "a witless and synthetic entertainment". The theatre-going public disagreed.
In this song Thénardier and his wife sing about how they cheat their customers, stealing their possessions and setting high prices for low-quality service, and live a life of criminal depravity.
Original cast recording
Weekend February 6/7
Farmers and Cowboys
The Farmer and the Cowman
Oklahoma! was the first musical written by Rodgers and Hammerstein. The original Broadway production opened on 31 March 1943. It was a box office hit and ran for an unprecedented 2,212 performances. The Farmer and the Cowman illustrates some of the tensions between the early settlers.
Performance