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Jennie

Shows · Jennie

The turn-of-the-century stage actress Jennie Malone (Mary Martin) puts up with her manager-husband James O’Connor (George Wallace), a drunken lout who seems to hinder her career more than help it, until she meets the gentlemanly British playwright Christopher Lawrence Cromwell (Robin Bailey) who changes her professional and personal life.

Opened
1963
Performances
82
Type
Musical
Era
Golden Age
Music: Arthur SchwartzLyrics: Howard DietzBook: Arnold Schulman

Productions1 on Broadway

1963 Majestic Theatre Original. October 17, 1963 · Vincent J. Donehue 82 performances

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In the literature14 passages

Mary Martin in the flop musical Jennie, supposedly based on the early career of actress Laurette Taylor. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p272

Next came one of Martin’s few failures, Jennie (10/ 17/63; 82 performances). The musical, based on the early career of actor Laurette Taylor, had a score by Mary Martin in The Sound of Music, 1959. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p359

The best element of JENNIE was the music, including the final beautiful book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p281

Jennie, their 1963 vehicle for Mary Martin, played for 82 showings. book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p369

Golden Age musicals: ... Jennie, 10/17/63; Anyone Can Whistle, 4/4/64... book:the-golden-age-of-american-musical-theatre-1943-1965-naden-corinne-j-rowman-litt#p206

She earned an Emmy nomination for her performance as Winston Churchill’s mother, Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (1975). book:the-stephen-sondheim-encyclopedia-rick-pender-rowman-littlefield-publishing-lanh#p652

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