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| 1951 | Broadhurst Theatre Original. May 14, 1951 · E. Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy | 40 performances |
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Irwin Corey, who played the role of a pharmacist (who unwittingly prescribes the poison that the doctor administers to Larry), was later in Flahooley; Barbara Perry appeared in Rumple (and had earlier appeared in If the Shoe Fits); and in 1961 Meredith appeared as Mr. Kicks, the devil himself, in Kicks & Co., which clo… book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p10
According to William Hawkins in the New York World-Telegram and Sun , the evening was “as relaxing as a tall lemonade in a flirting breeze,” and, in a reference to Flahooley , said the show was for people who liked a “breezy amusement with no axes to grind.” book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p182
Flahooley, with Barbara Cook, Ernest Truex, Jerome Courtland, Irwin Corey, Yma Sumac, and the Bill Baird Marionettes, managed only 40 performances in 1951 but later attracted a small cult following. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p122
Flahooley (5/14/51; 40 performances) was a rare failure for Harburg. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p242
Rodgers and Hammerstein had hoped to procure the talents of the Bil Baird Marionettes for the original Broadway production, but the puppets were still in deep analysis, scarred by their poisonous Flahooley reviews. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p305
with Sig Herzig, then creating, on his own, the librettos for Finian’s Rainbow (1947), Flahooley (1951), and Jamaica (1957). book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p343
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