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Maurice Chevalier

Maurice Chevalier

Shows · Maurice Chevalier

Between the 1955 and 1963 engagements, Chevalier’s remarkable career enjoyed a second flowering when he appeared in Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s hit 1958 film musical Gigi, which won a then-record eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture (Chevalier also won a special honorary Oscar that year). In the film, Chevalier introduced “Thank Heaven for Little Girls,” “I’m Glad I’m Not Young Anymore,” and, with H…

Opened
1955
Performances
46
Type
Special
Era
Golden Age
Music: VariousLyrics: Various

Productions4 on Broadway

1930 Fulton Theatre Original. March 30, 1930 · predates this show 18 performances
1932 Fulton Theatre Revival. February 9, 1932 · predates this show 17 performances
1947 Henry Millers Theatre Revival. March 10, 1947 · predates this show 46 performances
1955 Lyceum Theatre Revival. September 28, 1955 46 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 3 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.

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In the literature2 passages

The legendary French entertainer Maurice Chevalier’s current New York engagement (officially titled Maurice Chevalier in Songs and Impressions ) was his fifth of seven limited-engagement one-man Broadway visits over a period of thirty-five years. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p505

At one time he held a contract with Maurice Chevalier, then attracting attention in Parisian revues, for his Broadway debut (Dede, by Willemetz and Christine, was the musical planned for him)—but the French star “reneged” on coming over because he thought he couldn’t compete with A1 Jolson, the then #1 troubadour at th… book:revue-a-nostalgic-reprise-of-the-great-broadway-period-baral-robert-author-1st-e#p32

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