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All American

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All American is a musical with a book by Mel Brooks, lyrics by Lee Adams, and music by Charles Strouse. Based on the Robert Lewis Taylor 1950 novel Professor Fodorski, it is set on the campus of the fictional Southern Baptist Institute of Technology: the worlds of science and sports collide when the principles of engineering are applied to football strategies, and football strategies are used to teach the principles…

Opened
1962
Performances
80
Type
Musical
Era
Golden Age
Music: Charles StrouseLyrics: Lee AdamsBook: Mel Brooks

Productions1 on Broadway

1962 Winter Garden Original. March 19, 1962 · Joshua Logan 80 performances

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In the literature26 passages

Danny Daniels, Eileen Herlie, and Ray Bolger in rehearsal for All American, 1962. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p529

They followed up their Birdie smash with another satirical show, All American, where one song, the lovely “Once Upon a Time,” became a semistandard. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p49

She went right into All American, making bunny slippers seem like high fashion in her showstopper “Nightlife,” book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p57

whose past included two musical comedy nightmares—Shinbone Alley (1957) and All American (1962)—and whose future included the 1968 film The Producers. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p532

Irving Berlin's Mr. President (1960); All American (1962); Mame (1966), not dismal but from which he was bounced long before rehearsals began; the Picnic-musicalization Hot September (which opened and closed in Boston in hot September 1965); Look to the Lilies; book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p566

Funny thing, though, Logan’s most recent musicals had been Mr. President (1960) and All American (1962), and his future held even worse. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p602

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