The Adventures of Marco Polo is a 90 minute long television musical with music by Clay Warnick, lyrics by Edward Eager, and a book by William Friedberg and Neil Simon. [1] The work was created for the NBC Television's musical anthology series Max Liebman Presents ; premiering on that program on April 14, 1956. [2] Produced and directed by Max Liebman, the show was choreographed by James Starbuck. Frederick Fox designed the sets for the production and served as the show's art director, and Paul Du Pont designed the costumes. [1]
The cast of The Adventures of Marco Polo was led by Alfred Drake in the title role and Doretta Morrow as the Beggar Girl with the intent of reuniting the two performers who had recently been tremendously successful with the public performing opposite one another in Kismet . [3] Others in the cast included Paul Ukena as Kubla Khan, Arnold Moss as Nicole, George Mitchell as Mario, and Ross Martin as the Baron. Beatrice Kraft was a featured dancer in the show. [1] A cast album of the musical was released on Columbia Records. [4]
Your Show of Shows is a live 90-minute variety show that was broadcast weekly in the United States on NBC from February 25, 1950, through June 5, 1954, featuring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. Other featured performers were Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Bill Hayes, baritone singer Jack Russell, Judy Johnson, the Hamilton Trio and the soprano Marguerite Piazza. José Ferrer made several guest appearances on the series.
Alfred Drake was an American actor and singer.
Marco Polo is the fourth serial of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was first broadcast on BBC TV in seven weekly parts from 22 February to 4 April 1964. It was written by John Lucarotti and directed largely by Waris Hussein; John Crockett directed the fourth episode. The story is set in Yuan-era China in the year 1289, where the Doctor, his granddaughter Susan Foreman, and her teachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright meet the Italian merchant-explorer Marco Polo and Mongolian Emperor Kublai Khan.
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Carnival is a musical, originally produced by David Merrick on Broadway in 1961, with the book by Michael Stewart and music and lyrics by Bob Merrill. The musical is based on the 1953 film Lili, which again was based on the short story and treatment titled "The Seven Souls of Clement O'Reilly" by Paul Gallico. The show's title originally used an exclamation point ; it was eventually dropped during the show's run, as director Gower Champion felt it gave the wrong impression, saying, "It's not a blockbuster. It's a gentle show."
Doretta Morrow was an American actress, singer and dancer who appeared in stage and television productions during the 1940s and 1950s. She is best remembered for having created roles in the original productions of three successful Broadway musicals: Kitty Verdun in Where's Charley? (1948), Tuptim in The King and I (1951) and Marsinah in Kismet (1953). She co-starred in the 1952 Hollywood film Because You're Mine, as Mario Lanza's love interest. She appeared in several live television musicals. She retired from performance in 1960 at the age of 33.
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Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon is a 1972 Australian animated musical adventure film directed by Eric Porter, written by Sheldon Moldoff, and was the country's first animated feature film.
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Henry Clay Warnick, Jr., also known as Buck Warnick, Clay Warnick, and H. Clay Warnick, was an American composer, arranger, lyricist, conductor, and musical director. He had an active career on Broadway from 1942 through 1963, and was also a prolific composer of jingles for advertisements on radio and television with the Young and Rubicam agency. From 1950 to 1954 he was the music director of the television program Your Show of Shows.