Productions2 on Broadway
| 1905 | Transfer Theatre not recorded. · predates this show | |
| 1932 | Ethel Barrymore Theatre Original. November 29, 1932 · Howard Lindsay | 248 performances |
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In the literature25 passages
The gamble paid off when he opened in Gay Divorce the next year, and once he proved he could go it alone, he, too, left the theatre and made his way to Hollywood, where he became an even greater star, teaming most famously with Ginger Rogers. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p125
The Gay Divorcée, which was based, but not quite nominally, on Gay Divorce, starring Astaire, retained but one Porter tune, “Night and Day.” book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p198
From 1928 until 1944, about the time Hollywood canonized him for pop culture with a film biography (Night and Day, 1945), Porter created songs for a new Broadway musical comedy almost every season—fourteen altogether. And he went on to write a handful of book shows after that—including the finest theater score of his c… book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p297
The New Yorkers marked the first of eight musicals by Porter to open on Broadway during the decade, and it was followed by Gay Divorce; Anything Goes; Jubilee; Red, Hot and Blue; You Never Know; Leave It to Me!; and DuBarry Was a Lady (Porter also wrote the songs for the 1933 London musical Nymph Errant). book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p105
At 248 performances, the show became the season’s second-longest-running musical. book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p254
But the play included one song, and that number became enormously popular. The program referenced the song as \"If You Believe (Believed) in Me,\" with lyric by Billy Rose (the play\'s producer) and E. Y. Harburg and music by Harold Arlen. The song was later retitled \"It\'s Only a Paper Moon,\" and the iconic number h… book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p257
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