Productions1 on Broadway
| 1960 | Plymouth Theatre Original. September 29, 1960 · Peter Brook | 524 performances |
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Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
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In the literature38 passages
Prior to this production, the most successful musical of French origin (which also crossed the Atlantic via London) had been Irma la Douce. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p268
The Plymouth greeted the 1960s with a smash musical, Irma La Douce (i960), that came by way of France and England. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p133
The 1960s brought Frank Loesser's unsuccessful musical Greemvillow (i960), starring Anthony Perkins, Ellen McCown, Pert Kelton, and Cecil Kellaway; the Ballets Africains and West Side Story, from the Winter Garden (i960): Lucille Ball in a moderately entertaining musical (and Cy Coleman's Broadway debut), Wildcat (1961… book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p291
Irma La Douce, 115, 116, 273 book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p366
Fred Gwyunne, Elizabeth Seal, and George S. Irving in producer David Merrick’s 1960 production, Irma La Douce. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p436
Irma La Douce, 349, 352, 413 book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p651
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