Productions1 on Broadway
| 1950 | Winter Garden Theatre Original. January 17, 1950 · Robert H. Gordon | 46 performances |
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In the literature21 passages
In the fifteen years following the war, some two dozen revues opened on Broadway, most of them failures and most of them lacking a point of view. Many critics noted the revues had a number of composers, lyricists, and sketch writers, and the large number of contributors left the revues unfocused and scattershot. The fi… book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p14
Three numbers from Pretty Penny were resurrected for Alive and Kicking : the songs “French with Tears” and “Cry, Baby” (aka “Cry, Baby, Cry”) and the sketch “Meet the Authors” book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p16
Like Alive and Kicking, which opened three days before its premiere, Dance Me a Song was another in a string of now-forgotten revues that were generally dismissed by the critics and public, had relatively short Broadway runs, and left behind not a single cast album. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p21
Despite its large cast and lavish production values (and a huge initial investment of $230,000), Bless You All was yet another in the parade of the era’s luckless revues, and like Alive and Kicking , Dance Me a Song , Tickets, Please! , Michael Todd’s Peep Show , and Pardon Our French , it soon disappeared. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p105
Alive and Kicking laughed at television and medicine (“Hippocrates Hits the Jackpot”), offered a wry look at writers in “Meet the Authors” (which was added to Bless You All after its opening), and included a song about New York (“Building Going Up”); book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p107
For the second act of Bless You All , “Without Reservations” by Arnold Auerbach followed “Take Off the Coat,” and the performers included Jules Munshin, Robert Chisholm, and Gene Barry, “Without Reservations” had been performed during the tryout before being dropped, and when it was reinstated it replaced the sketch “T… book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p108
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