Also credited on6 works
Camelot
My Fair Lady
Victor/Victoria
Pippin
Lend An Ear
Guys and Dolls
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In the literature8 passages
- Even with Sandy Wilson (1924- )’s The Boy Friend (1953), which was a hit on Broadway, there were tensions. While the original Players Theatre production was performed with just two pianos and drums, producer and director Cy Feur decided that the Broadway production needed to be flashier and broader. He also felt it required an orchestra,…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
- [211] Vida Hope, “ The Boy Friend on Broadway”, Plays and Players , Christmas 1954, p. 12.ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
- Act One: “Perfect Young Ladies” (Paulette Girard, Millicent Martin, Ann Wakefield, Stella Claire, Dilys Lay); “The Boy Friend” (Julie Andrews, Ann Wakefield, Dilys Lay, Stella Claire, Millicent Martin, Joe Milan, Jerry Newby, Buddy Schwab); “Won’t You Charleston with Me?” (Ann Wakefield, Bob Scheerer); “Fancy Forgetting” (Ruth Altman, Eri…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- The Boy Friend was an affectionate tongue-in-cheek salute to light-hearted musicals of the 1920s. It may have winked but never condescended to the era and to the conventions of the period’s musicals.ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- Divorce Me, Darling! was Sandy Wilson’s sequel to The Boy Friend , and it viewed the characters from a decade later. Like most musical sequels, it didn’t live up to the original. It opened in London at the Globe Theatre on February 1, 1965, for ninety-one performances and was recorded by Decca (LP # LK/SLK-4675; the CD was issued by Must…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- I f there is such a thing as a Broadway confection, The Boy Friend was it. Only it was too much trouble for a confection and it didn’t start out on Broadway. Apart from that, everything I said is totally accurate.ebooks/Feuer, Cy/B003L77WUK EBOK - Cy Feuer & Ken Gross.txt
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