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Irma la Douce

Irma La Douce

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Irma la douce is a 1956 French musical with music by Marguerite Monnot and lyrics and book by Alexandre Breffort. The musical premiered in Paris in 1956, and was subsequently produced in the West End in 1958 and on Broadway, by David Merrick, in 1960.

Opened
1960
Performances
524
Type
Musical
Era
Golden Age
Music: Marguerite MonnotLyrics: Julian More, David Heneker & Monty NormanBook: Julian More, David Heneker & Monty Norman

Productions1 on Broadway

1960 Plymouth Theatre Original. September 29, 1960 · Peter Brook 524 performances

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

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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