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Fiorello! (original Broadway cast)

Fiorello!

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Fiorello! is a musical about New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia, a reform Republican, which debuted on Broadway in 1959, and tells the story of how La Guardia took on the Tammany Hall political machine.

Opened
1959
Performances
795
Type
Musical
Era
Golden Age
Music: Jerry BockLyrics: Sheldon HarnickBook: Jerome Weidman & George Abbott

Productions2 on Broadway

1959 Broadhurst Theatre Original. November 23, 1959 · George Abbott 795 performances
1962 Transfer Theatre not recorded.

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Licensing 1 entry

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In the literature50 passages

The team’s songs for The Body Beautiful were tuneful and lively, and the next year they wrote the score for the long-running Pulitzer Prize-winning Fiorello! , and during the next eleven years were represented on Broadway five times with Tenderloin (1960), She Loves Me (1963), Fiddler on the Roof (1964), The Apple Tree… book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p675

The musical has been revived twice in concert productions by Encores! and in fact was the very first musical presented in the new series of tributes to old musicals. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p844

Pulitzer Prize (1959–1960): Best Drama (Fiorello! ) book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p845

Abbott directed and collaborated on the book for the Pulitzer prize—winning musical Fiorello! (11/23/ 59; 796 performances). The show was the first hit for the team of Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p27

Fiorello! opened on November 23, 1959, with Tom Bosley as the feisty mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p94

The decade closed with a huge hit, the Pulitzer prize—winning musical Fiorello! (11/23/59; 796 performances). Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick wrote the score, and George Abbott and Jerome Weidman contributed the book with Abbott also directing; Robert E. Griffith and Har OLD PRINCE produced. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p104

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