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Baker Street

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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson race to thwart Professor Moriarty's scheme to steal the Queen's diamond jubilee gifts from the Tower of London. Meanwhile, Holmes finds himself unexpectedly drawn to actress Irene Adler, the one woman who proves to be his intellectual equal, complicating both the case and his emotions.

Opened
1965
Performances
313
Type
Musical
Era
Revolution
Music: Marian Grudeff & Raymond JesselLyrics: Marian Grudeff & Raymond JesselBook: Jerome Coopersmith

Productions1 on Broadway

1965 Broadway Theatre Original. February 16, 1965 · Harold Prince 313 performances

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

Licensing 2 entries

US Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available
UK Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available

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In the literature26 passages

Highly in demand, twice they doctored scores for troubled shows, adding songs to Baker Street (four songs) and Her First Roman (three songs). book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p109

In addition to designing for ballet, opera, and film, his best-known creations were the beautiful, atmospheric drops and sumptuous set pieces for such legendary musicals as Brigadoon, My Fair Lady, West Side Story, Hello, Dolly!, and Camelot, widely regarded as the most opulent show ever. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p134

Baker Street was chock-full of thrills, chills, and London fog. Everything, in fact, except a decent score and a charismatic star capable of pulling off the caper. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p100

Flora was his fourth show of the season, following Fiddler, Baker Street, and the play Poor Bitos. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p316

There were several other women songwriters over the years, fringe players like Alma Sanders (of Carlo and Sanders), June Sillman Carroll of her brother Leonard’s New Faces series, Anne Croswell of Tovarich (1963), and Marian Grudeff of Baker Street (1965)—but that was it. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p849

Cohen’s Hellzapoppin’ 67 opened at Montreal’s Expo ’67 and never made it south of the border. (Was Soupy well known in Quebec? Perhaps Cohen should have opted for that beloved-by-the-French clown Jerry Lewis.) Afterlife: Read on, if you must. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-steven-suskin#p1039

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