Serendipity Talk: Danny Kaye: King of the Jesters

For more than 50 years, this boy from Brooklyn charmed the world with song, dance, and manic comedy. This class will present Danny Kaye's fascinating life story and illustrate it with audio and video clips from stage (Tchaikovsky!), film (The Vessel with the Pestle), and TV, including clips of Kaye (who could not read music) conducting symphony orchestras. Danny Kaye was a comic genius who really did become a knight...Be prepared to laugh as we learn about this wonderful man.

Dan Sherman has taught several courses on musical theater and film musicals at OLLI, along with many other venues in the area. He holds his PhD in economics from Cornell and recently retired as Managing Director at the American Institutes for Research.

 

No registration is required. The Zoom link will be e-mailed to all those subscribed to the OLLI newsletter the morning of the talk. If you do not receive the newsletter and would like to attend, please e-mail [email protected] that morning.