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| 1928 | Mansfield Theatre Original. September 25, 1928 · Alexander Leftwich | 31 performances |
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Also included were “Are You My Love?” (from Rodgers and Hart’s 1936 film musical Dancing Pirate ) and “I Still Believe in You” (from the team’s 1930 musical Simple Simon ; with a different lyric, the song had also been heard as “Singing a Love Song” in the team’s 1928 musical Chee-Chee ). book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p225
Fields opened his new theater on October 26, 1928, with Rodgers and Hart’s Present Arms (10/26/28; 147 performances), and followed it with the same team’s Chee-Chee (9/25/28; 32 performances). book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p109
Chee-Chee (9/25/28; 32 performances) was a downright failure for Rodgers, Hart, and the two Fieldses. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p189
Chee-Chee provided their first opportunity “to put our theories of close unity of song and story into practice.” Chee-Chee received an all-time Rodgers and Hart low of thirty-one performances in 1928. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p122
In the 1936 On Your Toes Rodgers and Hart attempted an integration of music and drama that went beyond their successful innovations in Peggy-Ann and their unsuccessful ones in Chee-Chee. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p124
Rodgers explains his ideas about dramatic unity in Chee-Chee (1928) in his autobiography, Musical Stages, 118 (see also chapter 5, p. 85). book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p654
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