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Do I Hear a Waltz?

Do I Hear A Waltz?

Shows · Do I Hear A Waltz?

For his first offering as a Broadway producer, Hillard Elkins hit upon the idea that by changing the leading character in Clifford Odets’ 1937 drama Golden Boy from an Italian-American boxer named Joe Bonaparte to a Negro American boxer named Joe Wellington, the result would be a musical play of substance and significance. Odets himself agreed to write the libretto but his death during the show’s early stages created…

Opened
1965
Performances
220
Type
Musical
Era
Revolution
Music: Richard RodgersLyrics: Stephen SondheimBook: Arthur Laurents

Productions2 on Broadway

1965 46th Street Theatre Original. March 18, 1965 · John Dexter 220 performances
1999 Playhouse Theatre Transfer. July 15, 2001

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

Recordings 2 albums held

Do I Hear a Waltz?
Do I Hear a Waltz? Columbia Masterworks KOL 6370. 1965
Do I Hear a Waltz?
Do I Hear a Waltz? Sony Broadway SK 48206. 1992

Licensing 2 entries

US Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals available
UK Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals available

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In the literature42 passages

The Light in the Piazza (although that harks back to the composer’s grandfather — Richard Rodgers’ Do I Hear A Waltz? (page 210)) book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p6

His next show, collaboration with Hammerstein’s lyricist protégé Stephen Sondheim, produced the disappointing, if underrated, Do I Hear a Waltz? in 1965 (220 performances). book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p260

Without Robbins, Laurents and Sondheim worked together on two unsuccessful musicals in the next decade before they went on to work with other partners: Anyone Can Whistle (1964), a show without a literary source, and Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965), an adaptation of Laurents’s own The Time of the Cuckoo (an unhappy collabora… book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p362

One year later Sondheim completed his trilogy of collaborations with composer legends begun with Bernstein and Styne when, against his better judgment, he wrote the lyrics for Richard Rodger’s Do I Hear a Waltz? book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p392

This is why he objected to Rodgers’s desire to reprise “Take the Moment” in Do I Hear a Waltz? simply because the composer wanted the audience to hear the tune again (as was Merman’s rationale for reprising “I Get a Kick Out of You” thirty years earlier).53 book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p420

In Laurents’s revised version of Do I Hear a Waltz? performed at the George Street Playhouse in New Jersey in 2000 and the Pasadena Playhouse in 2001 (Fynsworth Alley CD 302 062 15) book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p702

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