Productions2 on Broadway
| 1953 | Majestic Theatre Original. May 28, 1953 · George Abbott | 358 performances |
| 2010 | Transfer Theatre not recorded. |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals R&H Theatricals | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals R&H Theatricals | available |
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In the literature42 passages
Alton, Robert Anything Goes By Jupiter DuBarry Was a Lady Hooray for What! Leave It to Me! Life Begins at 8:40 Me and Juliet Panama Hattie Show Is On, The Too Many Girls Ziegfeld Follies book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p387
Me and Juliet was the 29th and penultimate Broadway musical choreographed by Robert Alton. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p181
There were also breathtaking dissolves depicting both the cast rehearsing a musical number in casual working togs and the cast performing in full costume on stage before an audience. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p330
As for the score of twenty-two separate numbers (including reprises, dances, and the second-act finale), ten were from “Me and Juliet,” and twelve were tied to the plot, albeit two of them (“The Big, Black Giant” and “Intermission Talk”) only tenuously. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p330
One suspects the audiences of Me and Juliet expected a connection and were let down by the series of “Me and Juliet” sequences that wound in and out of the evening without ever clearly establishing themselves in their own right and not mirroring the action of Me and Juliet. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p331
The following songs were dropped in preproduction: “You Never Had It So Good,” “Wake Up, Little Theatre,” and various sequences from “Me and Juliet.” book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p332
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