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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a musical with a book by Joseph Fields and Anita Loos, lyrics by Leo Robin, and music by Jule Styne, based on the best-selling 1925 novel of the same name by Loos. The story involves an American woman's voyage to Paris to perform in a nightclub.

Opened
1949
Performances
740
Type
Musical
Era
Golden Age
Music: Jule StyneLyrics: Leo RobinBook: Joseph Stein & Anita Loos

Productions4 on Broadway

1926 Times Square Theatre Original. September 28, 1926 · predates this show 199 performances
1949 Ziegfeld Theatre Revival. December 8, 1949 · John C. Wilson 740 performances
1962 Transfer Theatre not recorded.
1995 Lyceum Theatre Revival. April 10, 1995 · Charles Repole 24 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 1 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.

Recordings 1 album held

Licensing 2 entries

US Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available
UK Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available

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In the literature50 passages

Wilson, John C. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Kiss Me, Kate book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p387

Vernon was also his assistant for the 1953 film version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p15

Carol Channing in a revised version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, called Lorelei (1974). book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p87

Styne’s next show wasn’t as successful, but it was important as the first meeting between Styne and his longtime collaborators Comden and Green. Two on the Aisle (7/19/51; 281 performances) was Styne’s only Broadway revue and was written to fit the talents of Bert Lahr and Dolores Gray. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p538

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes has remained an especially vital property. The film musical version was released in 1953, and, in 1974, Carol Channing returned to the part in a revised version titled Lorelet. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p134

Through the 1950s and ’60s, his stock rose, as he teamed often with longtime collaborators Betty Comden and Adolph Green. Their scores for Peter Pan, Bells Are Ringing, and Do Re Mi were in perfect step with the personas of Mary Martin, Judy Holliday, and Phil Silvers, respectively. In 1964, the smash Funny Girl became… book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p153

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