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I Married an Angel

Shows · I Married an Angel

“Musical comedy has met its masters, and they have reared back and passed a 44th Street miracle,” wrote Brooks Atkinson in the Times following the opening of I Married an Angel. That miracle had to do not only with the pleasures of the entertainment but also with the audience’s total acceptance that the disillusioned

Opened
1938
Performances
338
Type
Musical
Era
Early
Music: Richard RodgersLyrics: Lorenz HartBook: Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart

Productions1 on Broadway

1938 Shubert Theatre Original. May 11, 1938 · Joshua Logan 338 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.

Licensing 2 entries

US Concord Theatricals R&H Theatricals available
UK Concord Theatricals R&H Theatricals available

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In the literature28 passages

Balanchine, George Babes in Arms Boys from Syracuse, The Cabin in the Sky I Married an Angel Louisiana Purchase Merry Widow, The On Your Toes Song of Norway Where’s Charley? Ziegfeld Follies book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p387

She returned to Broadway in 1938 as Countess Peggy Palarffi in I Married an Angel, and two years later, triumphed as Vera Simpson in Pal Joey. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p349

I MARRIED AN ANGEL originated as a 1933 Rodgers, Hart, and Hart (Moss) movie project for Jeanette MacDonald. book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p207

Balanchine had come to New York from the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo to form the American School of Ballet, and while he created several companies with the dancers he trained he also worked on Broadway from time to time. His talents, said Agnes de Mille, were \"beyond anything Broadway had ever known\"; he contributed… book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p312

Simple Simon played four months on Broadway and then toured for six, and so perhaps the show turned a small profit. Its New York run totaled 135 performances, the same number of showings as Rodgers and Hart’s next musical America’s Sweetheart, which opened in 1931. book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p36

I’d Rather Be Right was the first of two hit musicals by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart that were presented during the season, and like the later I Married an Angel both were fantasies, the former a political fantasy and the latter a romantic one. book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p488

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