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Crazy for You (1992 original Broadway cast)

Crazy for You

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Crazy for You is a romantic comedy musical with a book by Ken Ludwig, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and music by George Gershwin. Billed as "The New Gershwin Musical Comedy", it is largely based on the songwriting team's 1930 musical Girl Crazy, but also incorporates songs from several other productions.

Opened
1992
Performances
1,622
Type
Musical
Era
Megamusical
Music: George GershwinLyrics: Ira GershwinBook: Ken Ludwig; co-conceived by Ken Ludwig and Mike Ockrent; inspired by material by Guy Bolton and John McGowan

Productions3 on Broadway

1992 Shubert Theatre Original. February 19, 1992 · Mike Ockrent 1,622 performances · 1 Tony wins
1993 Transfer Theatre not recorded.
2012 Transfer Theatre not recorded. December 13, 2012

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.

Licensing 2 entries

US Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available
UK Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available

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In the literature43 passages

Crazy For You, a revised version of the 1930 Gershwin musical Girl Crazy, with interpolated songs from many of the George and Ira Gershwin Broadway and film musicals. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p106

The splendor of the Ziegfeld era has returned of late, with the statuesque gaiety of Crazy For You. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p73

Crazy for You (G. and I. Gershwin and Ludwig), xiii, 13 book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p512

The show was reworked in 1992 as Crazy for You. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p166

Some of the songs were featured in Crazy for You (1992). book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p348

Subsequent Wagnerian musicals include Merlin (1983), Song and Dance (1985), Chess (1988), City of Angels (1989), Crazy for You (1992) book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p1111

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