Productions1 on Broadway
| 1950 | Royale Theatre Original. January 20, 1950 · James Shelton | 35 performances |
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In the literature15 passages
In the fifteen years following the war, some two dozen revues opened on Broadway, most of them failures and most of them lacking a point of view. Many critics noted the revues had a number of composers, lyricists, and sketch writers, and the large number of contributors left the revues unfocused and scattershot. The fi… book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p14
Dance Me a Song was another in a string of now-forgotten revues that were generally dismissed by the critics and public, had relatively short Broadway runs, and left behind not a single cast album. But unlike Small Wonder (1948), Along Fifth Avenue (1949), Touch and Go (1949), and Alive and Kicking before it, and Ticke… book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p21
Despite its large cast and lavish production values (and a huge initial investment of $230,000), Bless You All was yet another in the parade of the era’s luckless revues, and like Alive and Kicking , Dance Me a Song , Tickets, Please! , Michael Todd’s Peep Show , and Pardon Our French , it soon disappeared. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p105
Shelton’s delicate ballad “I’m the Girl” was used in his 1950 revue Dance Me a Song book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p494
Dance Me a Song, an intimate revue, was not a hit, but it served to introduce the delightful comic Wally Cox, who wrote his own very funny monologues. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p254
Unlike Small Wonder (1948), Along Fifth Avenue (1949), Touch and Go (1949), and Alive and Kicking before it, and Tickets, Please! (1950), Michael Todd’s Peep Show (1950), and Pardon Our French (1951) after it, Dance Me a Song, the shortest-running revue of the lot, included three ballads that later enjoyed a certain am… book:the-complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-hardcover-2014-rowman-lit#p21
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