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A Connecticut Yankee

A Connecticut Yankee

Shows · A Connecticut Yankee

A Connecticut Yankee is a musical based on the 1889 novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by American writer Mark Twain. Like most adaptations of the Twain novel, it focuses on the lighter aspects of the story.

Opened
1927
Performances
418
Type
Musical
Era
Early
Music: Richard RodgersLyrics: Lorenz HartBook: Herbert Fields

Productions3 on Broadway

1927 Vanderbilt Theatre Original. November 3, 1927 · Alexander Leftwich 418 performances
1929 Transfer Theatre not recorded. October 10, 1929
1943 Martin Beck Theatre Revival. November 17, 1943 · John C. Wilson 135 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.

Licensing 2 entries

US Concord Theatricals R&H Theatricals available
UK Concord Theatricals R&H Theatricals available

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In the literature38 passages

only the team’s 1927 A Connecticut Yankee played longer, for 418 performances. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p222

The last project that the 2 worked on together was the 1943 revival of A Connecticut Yankee. Hart had collaborated with Rodgers on a new song for the show, \"To Keep My Love Alive.\" Following the opening night performance on November 17, Hart disappeared. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p472

Connecticut Yankee was the biggest hit of the 1920s for Rodgers, Hart, and Fields. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p81

When the following year Rodgers and Hart were preoccupied with A Connecticut Yankee, Porter was easily persuaded to leave Europe and bring Paris to New York. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p71

In the increasingly small intervals between drinking binges Hart managed to create a few new songs for the successful 1943 revival of the 1927 hit A Connecticut Yankee (including the bitingly funny “To Keep My Love Alive”), but within a few months of Oklahoma!’s historic debut he was dead. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p148

A Connecticut Yankee (Rodgers and Hart), 42, 83, 84, 101, 110, 190 book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p512

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