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Lorelei (1974 Original Broadway Cast and 1973 Touring Cast)

Lorelei

Shows · Lorelei

A revised version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Lorelei brought Carol Channing back to the role that made her a star. The show added new songs and a framing device with an older Lorelei Lee looking back on her adventures in the 1920s.

Opened
1974
Performances
320
Type
Musical
Era
Revolution
Music: Jule StyneLyrics: Betty Comden, Adolph GreenBook: Kenny Solms, Gail Parent

Productions2 on Broadway

1938 Longacre Theatre Original. November 29, 1938 · predates this show 7 performances
1974 Palace Theatre Revival. January 27, 1974 · Robert Moore 320 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 1 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.

Licensing 2 entries

US Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available
UK Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available

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In the literature24 passages

In 1973, a new stage version, called Lorelei, retained ten songs from the original score and added five new ones by Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. Carol Channing again headed the cast which included Tamara Long (Dorothy), Peter Palmer (Gus), Lee Roy Reams (Henry), and Jack Fletcher (Sir Francis). The book,… book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p143

Carol Channing in a revised version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, called Lorelei (1974). book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p87

These were the same gentlemen who in 1967 produced Sherry!, and who in 1974 had the bright idea of transmogrifying the twenty-five-year-old Carol Channing vehicle Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1949) into the Carol Channing vehicle Lorelei. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p131

Lorelei was at the beginning of a trend, opening way out of town—Oklahoma City, on February 24, 1973—and inching its way (slowly) to Broadway. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p571

that extended tryout scheme work, anyway? Lorelei was capitalized at $500,000; with all the changes, it cost about $700,000 to get to Broadway. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p572

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1949) into the Carol Channing vehicle Lorelei. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-steven-suskin#p130

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