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Breakfast At Tiffany’s

Shows · Breakfast At Tiffany’s

Holly Golightly, a free-spirited young woman in 1940s New York, lives a glamorous but rootless existence, surviving on the generosity of wealthy admirers while nursing a dream of finding a place where she truly belongs. Her new neighbor, a struggling writer, falls under her spell as Holly navigates the city’s high society, visits a convicted mobster in prison, and searches for love while running from her past as a sm…

Opened
1966
Performances
0
Type
Musical
Era
Revolution
Music: Bob MerrillLyrics: Bob MerrillBook: Abe Burrows

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He caused a furor when he closed the foundering Breakfast at Tiffany’s in previews, telling the press that he was sparing the public an incredibly dull evening in the theatre. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p89

The Grass Harp was the third Capote novella transformed for the musical stage, following House of Flowers (1954) and Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1966). book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p386

Henry, Sweet Henry fleetly came and went, leaving budding choreographer Michael Bennett with a second Tony nomination his second time out for his second flop. (He kept tabs on Henry's dance music arrangers, William Goldenberg and Marvin Hamlisch, eventually enlisting them both to compose scores for him.) book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-steven-suskin#p448

Merrill’s Broadway career has been virtually ended by the combination of BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S [December 14, 1966], PRETTYBELLE [February 1, 1971] and THE PRINCE OF GRAND STREET—three star vehicles with great potential and heavy advance theatre party bookings. book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p473

The combination of BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S [December 14, 1966], PRETTYBELLE [February L, 1971}, and THE PRINCE OF GRAND STREET —three disastrous big-star vehicles with great potential and heavy advance theatre-party bookings—virtually ended Merrill’s Broadway career. book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p294

CHARLIE BROWN opened during one of the most dismal stretches Broadway had ever known, with sixteen consecutive flop musicals in a row— including BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S [Merrill: December 14, 1966], SHERRY! [March 28, 1967], MATA HARI! [December 9, 1967], GOLDEN RAINBOWT [February 4, 1968], and I’M SOLO- MONT [April 23,… book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p426

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