Deerhurst Resort presents "A Touch Of Broadway" (1990)
PICTURE QUALITY: This video is the best I could do with severely degraded, twenty-two year old source footage. It was digitized off VHS tapes, originally shot on a consumer-level analog 8mm camera. The wide shot camera's auto-exposure was often confused, so you'll notice the picture going dark then bright from time to time. The two camera angles were from different nights (different months!).
The audio was saved from a board mix of the show's closing night -- yet a THIRD different performance from the two video sources. Given all these different performances I tried to put together, some audio sync may be out here and there but ALL LEAD VOCALS WERE SUNG LIVE. All background vocals were pre-recorded. The live band was only a five piece with heavy sequence layering for the large orchestrations the show required.
Production staff: Producer: John Kim Bell Associate Producer/Asst Choreographer: Arleen Sugano Choreographer: Sam Viverito Musical Director, Vocal Coach, Arranger, Orchestrator: George Guerrette
SONG INDEX 00:00 Overture 01:21 Full cast opener: West Side Story's "Something's Coming" (with "In The Stone" intro). An original, contemporized arrangement. Shania Twain is the second soloist to sing. 08:54 Singer Sam Kelso and chorus perform a Ziegfeld Follies Medley. 11:50 Joni Wilson performs "I'm The Greatest Star" and "Don't Rain On My Parade". 16:05 A (marathon) Broadway Medley. 38:04 A (marathon) French Medley. 45:55 Shania Twain sings La Vie En Rose. 56:10 Host Mark Bernkoff sings "Being Alive". 01:00:11 Gilles Lanthier sings the music of Lionel Richie. 01:06:33 Shania Twain sings "Under The Boardwalk" and "The Wind Beneath My Wings". 01:13:13 Latin Medley. Starts with selections from West Side Story, including... 01:17:39 A contemporized trio performance, overlapping "Maria" (sung by Sam Kelso), "Somewhere" (Shania Twain) and "Tonight" (Joni Wilson). 01:24:46 1980's Top 40 Medley which Shania Twain and Joni Wilson tag-team. 01:29:49 Full cast closer: "I've Had The Time Of My Life".
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Listening to her sing Wind Beneath My Wings brought a tear to my eye. Just thinking about the struggles she was going through with at that time. Beautiful.
Awesome footage Tommy! Shania was so young! What a life: at one point, she's in the Northern Ontario bush, tree planting and getting messy - then she's doing a Broadway style show at Deerhurst. And that was just the start of her roller coaster life!
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