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Lucky

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A breezy musical comedy about a young woman's romantic adventures, featuring elaborate production numbers and a cast of colorful characters navigating love and luck in the Roaring Twenties. The show was notable for its spectacular staging and the appearance of Paul Whiteman and his famous orchestra.

Opened
1927
Performances
71
Type
Musical
Era
Early
Music: Jerome KernLyrics: Otto HarbachBook: Harry Ruby, Bert Kalmar & Otto Harbach

Productions1 on Broadway

1927 New Amsterdam Theatre Original. March 22, 1927 · Hassard Short 71 performances

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In the literature17 passages

Harry Richman sang "Lucky Day" and Pennington introduced "Black Bottom," the dance that would outdo all others in Jazz Age popularity but the Charleston. book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p238

'My Mother’s Eyes' (1929 film Lucky Boy; lyric by L. Wolfe Gilbert, music by Abel Baer). book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p218

“Lucky Day” was one of the four hits from the 1926 edition of George White’s Scandals. book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p416

Still I confess that the film adaptation of On the Town loses its luster with the intrusion of Roger Edens’s ‘Main Street,’ ‘You’re Awful,’ ‘On the Town,’ ‘Count on Me,’ and ‘Prehistoric Man,’ and would prefer to hear Leonard Bernstein’s own lyrical ‘Lonely Town’ and ‘Lucky to Be Me,’ the delightfully suggestive ‘I Can… book:dominic-mchugh-the-oxford-handbook-of-musical-theatre-screen-adaptations-2019-ox#p77

The first musical in CinemaScope was Warner Bros.’ Lucky Me (released on 9 April 1954), starring Doris Day, Robert Cummings, and Phil Silvers. book:dominic-mchugh-the-oxford-handbook-of-musical-theatre-screen-adaptations-2019-ox#p784

Lucky (1927) was a lavish show produced by Dillingham with several Kern songs. book:musical-a-grand-tour-the-rise-glory-and-fall-of-an-flinn-denny-martin-new-york-l#p186

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