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Look, Ma, I’m Dancin’!

Shows · Look, Ma, I’m Dancin’!

A wealthy beer heiress named Lily Malloy bankrolls a ballet company on the condition that she gets to dance in the productions. Despite her complete lack of talent, her infectious enthusiasm and generous funding keep the troupe going as they tour the country, with the company's director trying desperately to keep Lily off the stage.

Opened
1948
Performances
188
Type
Musical
Era
Golden Age
Music: Hugh MartinLyrics: Hugh MartinBook: Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee

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In the literature4 passages

When they withdrew from the project, Martin searched for another plot upon which to graft some of his already-written songs. Molnar’s play—which Preston Sturges had successfully adapted into a semi-classic 1935 Margaret Sulla- van film—was selected somewhat after the fact. book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p235

Walker had the lead in two subsequent musicals of the forties, Barefoot Boy with Cheek and Look, Ma, I’m Dancin’!, neither of which proved a great success, and she closed on the road in a musical called A Month of Sundays in 1952. book:not-since-carrie-forty-years-of-broadway-musical-flops-ken-mandelbaum#p74

Unfortunately Nancy kept losing her voice, \nAnd sometimes she was out for weeks at a time … night after night we would have to disappoint our audience. Had it not been for this unfortunate illness, I think that the play would have been a hit. book:the-abbott-touch-thomas-hischak-2023-bloomsbury-publishing#p143

Harold Lang, the young dancing star of last season’s “Look, Ma, I’m Dancin’!”, is certain for the company. book:the-letters-of-cole-porter-cole-porter-editor-cliff-eisen-editor-dominic-mchugh-#p323

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