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Me and Juliet

Me and Juliet

Shows · Me and Juliet

Me and Juliet is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, and lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II. The sixth stage collaboration by Rodgers & Hammerstein, it tells a story of romance backstage at a long-running musical: assistant stage manager Larry woos chorus girl Jeanie behind the back of her electrician boyfriend, Bob.

Opened
1953
Performances
358
Type
Musical
Era
Golden Age
Music: Richard RodgersLyrics: Oscar Hammerstein IIBook: Oscar Hammerstein II

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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