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Mexican Hayride

Mexican Hayride

Shows · Mexican Hayride

One of Broadway’s most lavish wartime attractions (it had a cast of 89), Mexican Hayride owed its success largely to its appealing Latin-flavored score by Cole Porter (including the hit ballad “I Love You”), its eye-dazzling decor, its rows of long-stemmed show girls, and — most of all — the buffooneries of prankish, leering Bobby Clark.

Opened
1944
Performances
481
Type
Musical
Era
Golden Age
Music: Cole PorterLyrics: Cole PorterBook: Herbert & Dorothy Fields

Productions1 on Broadway

1944 Winter Garden Theatre Original. January 28, 1944 · Hassard Short, John Kennedy 481 performances

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Bobby Clark (in his squaw disguise) and June Havoc cutting up during the “Count Your Blessings” number. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p147

starred with June Havoc (interestingly, he worked more than once with both Hovick sisters) in Cole Porter’s Mexican Hayride and what seemed like an odd match on paper, a revival of the Victor Herbert operetta Sweethearts (it was hit, by the way), book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p57

With a career that spanned over six decades, she made a debut in the 1936 Sigmund Romberg flop Forbidden Melody. Finally gaining stardom after a quarter century in the business, she played Gladys Bumps, singing “That Terrific Rainbow” and “The Flower Garden of My Heart” in the original production of Pal Joey, followed… book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p265

Film adaptations of Something for the Boys and Mexican Hayride contained no songs by Porter; Paris and Fifty Million Frenchmen confined Porter’s music to background noise; Let’s Face It offered two songs; Dubarry Was a Lady, three; and Panama Hattie, four. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p239

Porter had produced his sixth successive old-fashioned Broadway hit, Mexican Hayride. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p263

Mexican Hayride (Porter), 189, 215 book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p527

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