Really Rosie
Carole King
['Joplin', 'Illayaraja', 'Leonard Bernstein', 'Sadhu Kokila', 'Robert Joy', 'Ralph Vaughan Williams', 'Nick Mason', 'Ry Cooder', 'Victor Herbert', 'Herbie Hancock', 'Marvin Gaye', 'Igor Stravinsky', 'Manuel de Falla', 'Crosby', 'Copland', 'Shantanu Moitra', 'Ryuichi Sakamoto', 'Garth Brooks', 'Amilcare Ponchielli', 'Burton Lane', 'Jule Styne', 'Marvin Hamlisch', 'Albert Lortzing', 'Gian Carlo Menotti', 'Scriabin', 'Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle', 'Clint Eastwood', 'Ariel Rechtshaid', 'Junior Parker', 'Velvet Underground', 'Hanneman', 'Julie Delpy', 'Holst', 'Victor Schertzinger', 'Akshaya Mohanty', 'Anu Malik', 'Telemann', 'Mani Sharma', 'Jan Hammer', 'Bob Dylan', 'Raveendran', 'Lalo Schifrin', 'Ennio Morricone', 'Eric Idle', 'Gustavo Santaolalla', 'Moby', 'Malvina Reynolds', 'Neil Young', 'Ron Goodwin', 'Jules Massenet', 'Jake Shears', 'Maurice Ravel', 'Tori Amos', 'Freddie Mercury', 'Bijibal', 'Shunji Iwai', 'Paul Hindemith', 'Pearl Jam', 'Giulio Caccini', 'Wynton Marsalis', 'Quincy Jones', 'Miles Davis', 'Carl Stalling', 'Charlie Chaplin', 'Alexander Glazunov', 'Thom Yorke', 'Bach', 'Busoni', 'Paul Giovanni', 'Riz Ortolani', 'Front Line Assembly', 'Pritam', 'Elliot Goldenthal', 'Zubir Said', 'Ira Gershwin', 'Anoop Rubens', 'Slim Shady', 'Ravi Shankar', 'Samuel Hoffenstein', 'Joe Melson', 'GoonRock', 'Menken', 'Alessandro Scarlatti', 'Lionel Richie', 'Weill', 'Giovanni Battista Pergolesi', 'Sankar Ganesh', 'John Coltrane', 'Toby Gad', 'Johann Strauss II', 'Gackt', 'Olivier Messiaen', 'Kanye West', 'Giorgio Moroder', 'Wagner', 'Bert Kaempfert', 'Brian', 'Jerry Bock', 'Leo Kottke']
Really Rosie
Really Rosie is a musical with a book and lyrics by Maurice Sendak and music by Carole King. The musical is based on Sendak's books Chicken Soup with Rice, Pierre, One was Johnny, Alligators All Around (which compose 1962's The Nutshell Library), and The Sign on Rosie's Door (1960). Sendak based the story on a demonstrative little girl who used to sing and dance on the stoop of her building, whom he observed while he was a little boy growing up in Brooklyn. The musical has become a mainstay of children's theater groups. It follows a typical summer day in the life of the Nutshell Kids, a group of several neighborhood friends, including Pierre, Alligator, Johnny, and Chef Jeff from the Nutshell Library books, and Rosie and Kathy from The Sign on Rosie's Door. Rosie, the self-proclaimed sassiest kid on her block of Brooklyn's Avenue P, entertains everyone by directing and starring in an Oscar-winning movie based on the exciting, dramatic, funny (and slightly exaggerated) story of her life. During its off-Broadway run, the lead role of Rosie was first played by a-then 12-year-old Tisha Campbell-Martin. Midway through the run, Tisha left the cast and was replaced by cast member and "Rosie" understudy, 10-year-old Angela Coin. Angela also sang the role of "Rosie" on the cast recording. A half-hour animated television special aired on CBS TV in February 1975. It was directed by Maurice Sendak, with Carole King voicing the title character. An album based on the songs by King and lyrics by Sendak is available on Ode/Epic/SME Records. In the animated special, only the first seven songs and Really Rosie (Reprise) were showcased. Sendak expanded the piece for London and Washington, DC, stage productions in 1978, and an off-Broadway production, directed and choreographed by Patricia Birch with designs by Sendak, which opened on October 14, 1980, at the Westside Theatre, where it ran for 274 performances.