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Milk and Honey

Milk and Honey

Shows · Milk and Honey

Milk and Honey is a musical with a book by Don Appell and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman. The story centers on a busload of lonely American widows hoping to catch husbands while touring Israel and is set against the backdrop of the country's struggle for recognition as an independent nation.

Opened
1961
Performances
543
Type
Musical
Era
Golden Age
Music: Jerry HermanLyrics: Jerry HermanBook: Don Appell

Productions1 on Broadway

1961 Martin Beck Theatre Original. October 10, 1961 · Albert Marre 543 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.

Licensing 2 entries

US Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available
UK Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available

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In the literature35 passages

Along the way, she appeared in the 1958 Oscar-winning musical Gigi , and introduced Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s “I Remember It Well” (with Maurice Chevalier). And during the run of Herman’s Milk and Honey (1961) she replaced Molly Picon. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p169

Some highlights that originated at the Beck during this decade included Jerry Herman's Milk and Honey (1961), about the new Israel; Anne Bancroft, Barbara Harris, Gene Wilder, and Zohra Lampert in a revival of Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children (1963), staged by Jerome Robbins; Colleen Dewhurst and Michael Dunn i… book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p193

The production ran for 543 performances, a long run by Broadway standards, yet the young songwriter didn’t receive much notice, because most critics attributed the show’s success to the large Jewish audience for Broadway musicals. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p262

JERRY HERMAN followed his string of hits—Milk and Honey, Hello, Dolly! and Mame—with a failure, Dear World (2/6/69; 112 performances). book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p355

Jerry Herman had three big hits in a row at the beginning of his Broadway career, with Milk and Honey, Hello, Dolly!, and Mame. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p178

She replaced Molly Picon in Milk and Honey, and had a non-musical success in Oh, Dad, Poor Dad... book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p204

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