Cast, creative team announced for Theo Ubique’s summer cabaret

CHICAGO – The British songwriting duo of Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse, who together wrote some of the most enduring and loved songs of Broadway and Hollywood, will be celebrated in Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre’s 2016 summer cabaret. The pair, who burst onto Broadway and the pop charts in 1962 with their musical Stop the World, I Want to Get Off, became an instant sensation when the show’s big number, “What Kind of Fool Am I?” was recorded by Sammy Davis Jr. The song rose to #17 on the Billboard Top 100 list and won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year. Their next musical, The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd ran less than a year on Broadway, but its score introduced the standards “Who Can I Turn To?,” “Feeling Good” and “On a Wonderful Day Like Today.” For films, Newley and Bricusse wrote the songs “The Candy Man” (another big hit for Sammy Davis Jr.) and “Pure Imagination,” for Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory as well as the lyrics for the title song of the James Bond film Goldfinger. The cabaret will include these and many more, including gems from lesser-known musicals like the 1972 West End musical The Good Old Bad Old Days and the experimental movie musical Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find
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