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By the Beautiful Sea “The New Musical”

By the Beautiful Sea “The New Musical”

Shows · By the Beautiful Sea “The New Musical”

Unlike A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, which had perhaps too much plot, Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields’ wispy storyline for By the Beautiful Sea was hardly enough to fill a mini-musical. The short-changed story centered on Coney Island boarding-house owner and vaudeville performer Lottie Gibson (Shirley Booth) and her love for down-and-out Shakespearean actor Dennis Emery (Wilbur Evans), a divorced man whose teenage dau…

Opened
1954
Performances
270
Type
Musical
Era
Golden Age
Music: Arthur SchwartzLyrics: Dorothy FieldsBook: Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields

Productions1 on Broadway

1954 Majestic Theatre Original. April 8, 1954 · Marshall Jamison 270 performances

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