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| 1961 | Eugene O'Neill Theatre Original. October 12, 1961 · Stanley Prager | 68 performances |
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Let It Ride! (George Gobel), Little Me (Sid Caesar), and 110 in the Shade (Robert Horton). book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p829
A second musical version of the play was the unsuccessful Livingston and Evans’ LET IT RIDE [October 12, 1961]. George Abbott, no fool, knew enough to stay away from both attempts at altering his classic farce. book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p309
For some reason, RCA tended to pick up the cast album rights to musicals that starred television personalities, such as Wildcat (Lucille Ball), Do Re Mi (Phil Silvers), Let It Ride! (George Gobel), Little Me (Sid Caesar), and 110 in the Shade (Robert Horton). book:the-complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-hardcover-2014-rowman-lit#p834
Three years later, Livingston and Evans contributed a less interesting score to Let It Ride, a botched musicalization of Three Men on a Horse which starred George Gobel and Sam Levene and ran two months. book:not-since-carrie-forty-years-of-broadway-musical-flops-ken-mandelbaum#p168
The Gay Life (113), based on Arthur Schnitzler’s play The Affairs of Anatol, had music by Arthur Schwartz, but, like Let It Ride! (68) and Young Abe Lincoln (93), was a commercial failure. book:west-end-broadway-the-golden-age-of-the-american-musical-adrian-wright-boydell-b#p201
It also served as the basis of the musicals, Banjo Eyes with Eddie Cantor and, Let It Ride, with a score by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p26
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