Productions3 on Broadway
| 1864 | Olympic Theatre Revival. June 2, 1864 · predates this show | 27 performances |
| 1869 | Woods Museum And Metropolitan Revival. November 15, 1869 · predates this show | 11 performances |
| 2014 | New Amsterdam Theatre Original. March 20, 2014 · Casey Nicholaw | 9,999 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 2 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.
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Porter wrote two scores for the movies, High Society and Les Girls, as well as an original television musical, Aladdin. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p439
including a musical version of Aladdin, with Cole Porter’s last score) book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p267
Perelman’s next (and last) musical, three years after Venus, closed out of town; he would take time off from his prolific output of comic literary fiction on one more occasion to write the script for Porter’s last effort, the television musical Aladdin (1958). book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p194
Porter did some final work in Hollywood, including ‘True Love” for the 1956 film High Society and the 1958 TV musical Aladdin. book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p259
This was followed by the 1991 Beauty and the Beast and the 1992 Aladdin. The three films garnered Menken six Oscars, three for best original scores and another three for the songs *Under the Sea, Beauty and the Beast, and A Whole New World. book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p393
e wrote three more scores, for the MGM film musicals High Society (1956), which yielded “True Love,” his final hit song, and Les Girls (1957) as well as the 1958 CBS television musical Aladdin, which offered the amusing novelty “Come to the Supermarket in Old Peking.” book:the-complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-hardcover-2014-rowman-lit#p454
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