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Hallelujah, Baby! (1967 Original Broadway Cast)

Hallelujah, Baby!

Shows · Hallelujah, Baby!

Georgina, a young Black woman, and her two suitors — Clem, a Black activist, and Harvey, a white liberal — journey through the entire 20th century without aging, experiencing the changing landscape of race relations in America. From the early 1900s through the civil rights era, Georgina pursues her dream of show business stardom while navigating the shifting dynamics of racial progress, personal ambition, and the two…

Opened
1967
Performances
293
Type
Musical
Era
Revolution
Music: Jule StyneLyrics: Betty Comden, Adolph GreenBook: Arthur Laurents

Productions1 on Broadway

1967 Martin Beck Theatre Original. April 26, 1967 · Burt Shevelove 293 performances · 5 Tony wins

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 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 literature33 passages

Not quite the format for a long-running smash, perhaps, but the show’s innovations did turn up in later productions such as Company and A Chorus Line (nonlinear stories), Hallelujah, Baby! book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p136

Highlights of the late 1960s included Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn, Rosemary Murphy, and Marian Seldes in Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance (1966); Leslie Uggams, Robert Hooks, Lillian Hayman, and Allen Case in the Tony Award winning musical Hallelujah, Baby! (1967), by Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and Jule Styne; book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p193

Hallelujah, Baby! (4/26/67; 293 performances) reteamed Styne with his Gypsy librettist, Arthur Laurents. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p539

"Hallelujah, Baby!," 112, 341, 517, 533 book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p644

Hallelujah, Baby!, 149, 211 book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p339

He received a Tony Award for Hallelujah, Baby! He directed I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1962), Anyone Can Whistle, Gypsy, The Madwoman of Central Park West, La Cage aux Folles (1983), and Nick & Nora, and won a Tony for La Cage aux Folles. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p224

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