Artist:Harold Hastings and the Kit Kat Band
Song:Entr'acte
Album:Cabaret: Original Broadway Cast
Harold Hastings worked on many Broadway shows as a conductor and arranger. The 1966 show Cabaret is probably the best known show he worked on. Entr'acte is a musical interlude accompanied by dancers billed as Kit Kat Girls. Hastings conducted this and other musical interludes with little fanfare. Hastings was born Dec. 19, 1916 in New York City. He studied at New York University. Hastings started out conducting radio and TV orchestras and composing music for TV commercials. After composing the music for the 1950 Broadway show Tickets, Please!, Hastings worked as a musical director, arranger, orchestrator and conductor on Broadway musicals until 1973. Among the shows he worked on were The Pajama Game, Damn Yankees!, Fiorello, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forun and of course the 1966 musical Cabaret. The original cast album is available on CD. After that Hastings worked on the Stephen Sondheim musicals Company, Follies and A Little Night Music. And then Hastings died of a heart attack on May 30, 1973 at age 56. Here's a video for Entr'acte by Harold Hastings and the Kit Kat Band from the 1966 musical Cabaret.
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