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The original Broadway production played in 1961–62. [ 3 ] The musical was inspired by an article about subway homelessness in the March 1956 issue of Harper's magazine and a subsequent 1957 book based on it, both by Edmund G. Love , who slept on subway trains throughout the 1950s and encountered many unique individuals.
Songs are listed with performers in the original Broadway version, as listed in Playbill Vault. [2] There was no intermission. Beatitudes - Company; We're Gonna Have a Good Time - Clinton Derricks-Carroll & Company; There's a Stranger in Town - William Hardy, Jr. & Company; Do You Know Jesus/He's a Wonder - Thomas Jefferson Fouse, Jr. & Company
The Broadway production opened on September 15, 1932 at the Imperial Theatre, closing on January 25, 1933, after 188 performances. Directed by Dietz and choreographed by Albertina Rasch, the cast included Clifton Webb , Patsy Kelly , Imogene Coca , Larry Adler , Charles Butterworth , Tamara Geva , Buddy and Vilma Ebsen , and Billie Yarbo .
High Society is a musical comedy with a book by Arthur Kopit and music and lyrics by Cole Porter.Some updated or new lyrics were provided by Susan Birkenhead.The musical is based on Philip Barry's 1939 stage comedy The Philadelphia Story and the subsequent 1956 musical film adaptation, High Society, which features Porter's songs.
Lauren Bacall in the TV production of Applause (1973). Applause is a musical with a book by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, lyrics by Lee Adams, and music by Charles Strouse.The musical is based on the 1950 film All About Eve and the short story on which the movie is based, Mary Orr's "The Wisdom of Eve".
Very Warm for May is a quintessential "lost musical from the 1930s" because of its enduring score by two Broadway legends and its surprisingly quick disappearance from the theatre scene. In 1984, recordings of the original cast performances from 1939 were discovered and which were assembled to form a long playing (LP) album and thus became the ...
The musical has a story written by Jon Hartmere about classic fairy tale princesses — Cinderella, Snow White, Rapunzel and the Little Mermaid, among them, (gathered just as they were in t
Following tryouts in Boston and Philadelphia, [1] the Broadway production, directed by Walter Kerr and choreographed by Agnes de Mille, opened on October 11, 1958, at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre and closed on February 28, 1959, after 161 performances.