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| 1944 | New Century Theatre Original. April 8, 1944 · Harry Delmar, Fred Thompson | 882 performances |
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Though it was one of Broadway’s most popular wartime attractions, Follow the Girls is all but forgotten today. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p148
Follow the Girls (4/8/44; 882 performances), a musical with music by Philip Charig and lyrics by Dan Shapiro and Milton Pascal, was a surprising success. It starred Jackie Gleason, Gertrude Niesen, and Irina Baranova. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p291
Theatergoers in the I !JI.Os could choose from a variety of musical al ternati\'es that succeeded by relying less on the cogency of scripts than on the power of perform- ers: star-vehicle musical comedies (Mexican llayride, 1911; Follow The Girls, 1946), book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p363
Perhaps Ankles Aweigh’s Spud and Dinky were a subtle homage (and a subtle sequel) to the earlier musical’s sailor-characters Goofy, Spud, and Dinky. book:the-complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-hardcover-2014-rowman-lit#p462
Follow the Girls 882 performances Opened April 8, 1944 Closed May 18, 1946 book:theatre-world-2009-2010-season-v-66-willis#p457
London saw few new American musicals between 1939 and 1946, and contemporary Broadway was thus principally represented by Cole Porter (Let’s Face It and DuBarry Was a Lady , both 1942, and Panama Hattie , 1943). The first new American shows to be produced after the end of the war were the contrasting demotic comedy of… book:cambridge-companion-to-the-musical-cambridge-companions-to-music-the-the-cambrid#p172
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