Productions1 on Broadway
| 1942 | 46th Street Theatre Original. October 14, 1942 · George Abbott | 68 performances |
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In the literature4 passages
BEST FOOT FORWARD [Martin: October 1, 1941] and the forthcoming BEAT THE BAND [October 14, 1942]. book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p213
The one commercially successful show of the year was By Jupiter (427), with the last Rodgers and Hart Broadway score. Rodgers and Hart wrote the book, too, about the conflict between the Amazons and Greeks; one of the most amusing Amazonians was played by the moon-faced British actress Bertha Belmore. Everything else o… book:west-end-broadway-the-golden-age-of-the-american-musical-adrian-wright-boydell-b#p42
Abbott was, indeed, a time-study man, with his stopwatch and laff-o-meter. The problem with this is that it can make the work become too formulaic. The shows were almost always well assembled, even when they weren’t good, and Abbott had his share of failures. (Does anyone remember Beat the Band, Barefoot Boy with Cheek… book:broadway-yearbook-2001-2002-a-relevant-and-irreverent-steven-suskin-kindle-2003-#p324
Abbott next explored the world of swing bands with Beat the Band (1942) but, according to him, the show was destroyed by a series of mistakes on his part. book:the-abbott-touch-thomas-hischak-2023-bloomsbury-publishing#p116
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