Productions1 on Broadway
| 1924 | Liberty Theatre Original. December 1, 1924 · Felix Edwardes | 330 performances |
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Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
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In the literature37 passages
The title of the show was originally Black Eyed Susan, but it opened on Broadway as Lady, Be Good! (12/1/24; 330 performances). The show was an immediate smash hit. Finally, doubts about whether the Astaires could handle the leads of a Broadway musical were put to rest. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p57
They made their Broadway debut in 1911, at a benefit performance at the Broad- way Theatre on 42nd Street, but their act, titled “A Rainy Saturday,” was such a failure no Broadway producer would touch them. Returning to the world of the two-a-day for the next five years, they got their first true Broadway booking in th… book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p125
Lady, Be Good! (1925), thanks to its remarkable Gershwin score and the talent of the Astaires. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p126
Lady, Be Good! was the first Broadway show to have a complete score by the Gershwin brothers. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p188
For worthy films with Porter’s music—prior to the 1953 adaptation of Kiss Me, Kate discussed in chapter 14—one would have to turn to the original film musicals Born to Dance (1936), Rosalie (1937), and Broadway Melody of 1940, and the modern-day biopic De-Lovely (2004), the latter chock full of stylistically updated Po… book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p239
Freedley, with Alexander A. Aarons, worked closely with George and Ira Gershwin, and brought many of their shows to the stage, including Lady, Be Good! (1924), Oh, Kay! (1926), and Girl Crazy (1930). book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p157
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