Productions4 on Broadway
| 1943 | Broadway Theatre Original. December 2, 1943 · Hassard Short, Charles Friedman | 502 performances |
| 1945 | City Center Revival. May 2, 1945 · Hassard Short | 21 performances |
| 1946 | City Center Revival. April 7, 1946 · Hassard Short | 32 performances |
| 1992 | Transfer Theatre not recorded. |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
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In the literature32 passages
Carmen Jones returned twice to New York during its year-and-a-half nationwide tour. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p122
Rahn created the title role in Oscar Hammerstein II’s Carmen Jones, his updated adaptation of Bizet’s opera Carmen. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p234
Oscar Hammerstein II’s adaptation of Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen was a surprise hit in 1943. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p287
Billy Rose brought his production of Carmen Jones to this theatre and the critics flipped. Oscar Hammerstein II, who was back on top with Oklahoma!, conceived the offbeat notion of doing an all-black Carmen set in a parachute factory in America's South during World War II. The experiment worked and the jazz opera ran f… book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p208
Musical revivals included The King and I, Carmen Jones, and 300 book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p318
Dorothy Dandridge, a rising star who had played the title role in Preminger’s Carmen Jones a few years earlier, was cast as Bess. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p212
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