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Lovely photo of this amazing spectacle. I understand you can view theses spectacular sunsets in Dakota which brings back memories for me of performing in the musical called ‘Calamity Jane’ with numbers -such as ‘The Deadwood Stage’, ‘Adelaide’, Everyone Complains about the Weather , ‘Windy City’, ‘Keep It Under Your Hat’, ‘Higher than a Hawk’ and ‘ The Black hills of Dakota”
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I'm not familiar with it. I'm only marginally familiar with the character.
Most of the stage music that I am familiar with is either Rogers & Hammerstein or Andrew Lloyd Webber. And the Disney stuff.
I know quite a bit about the James brothers, the Dalton gang, Billy the Kid, and Pancho Villa. And thinking about it, it seems like the one thing they had in common was that they were very bad people. I can see why nobody has written a musical about any of them.
Calamity Jane in real life was a very colorful frontierswoman who was an acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok which all made for a lively entertaining musical western which became an instant hit. The adaption from the stage plays to the film musical also named ‘Calamity Jane” starred Doris Day as Calamity and Howard Keel as Wild Bill Hickok.
A later stage version was premiered at the Municipal Theatre in St. Louis in 1961.
Sammy Fain wrote the original music For Calamity and you might be aware of his other compositions such as "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing “from the movie of the same title. He also wrote the music for the TV series Wagon Train and for the Walt Disney animated films Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, and The Rescuers.
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I am somewhat familiar with Fain's work with Disney. Very capable, as I remember it.
I am marginally familiar with the character of Calamity Jane. I think there was a lot of padding the resume there.
There has been over the past few years some sort of movement to humanize and soften the images of many of those characters from the old West. It is similar to the way that the tale of Liver-Eating Johnson was eventually softened (through a few discrete steps) to the image of Grizzly Adams for tv consumption. I don't see why they couldn't just do some biker that took a spill and landed in the Rockies in the late 19th century. I suppose they would wish to preserve the air of historicalness around it.
I saw a show on tv the other night about Jesse James, and what a wonderful, misunderstood gentleman he was-- a stand-up kind of guy that just happened to rob a few banks and such, though he only did so because of his inherent goodness. It's a crock.
It's not that none of it is real-- there's certainly been a lot of research gone into it; but there's this issue of forgetting a lot of things in the telling.
But then, that could well be of significance in these characters maintaining their popularity through the years, the evolving nature of their various aspects.
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