Minnie’s Boys

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The Marx Brothers were leading characters in two later Broadway musicals: the biographical Minnie’s Boys (1970) book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p59

Minnie’s Boys (3/26/70; 76 performances) was a musi calization of the early career of the Marx Brothers and starred Shelley Winters. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p279

“Five Growing Boys” (from Minnie’s Boys), “Addie’s at It gain” (from I Had a Ball), “Desert Moon” (from Golden Rainbow). or “Where Is the Tribe for Me?” from Bajour). We just love that all-American, 100 percent pasteurized processed cheese, and the cheesier the better. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p168

Shelley Winters as Minnie Marx, mother to “Five Growing Boys” in the Guilty Pleasure Minnie’s Boys, with an often enjoyable score by the flop-prone team of Larry Grossman and Hal Hackady. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p169

A couple of other off-balance shows leap to mind. In Minnie’s Boys, it’s the Marx brothers you care about, but the lead went to Shelley Winters, play- book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p319

But Minnie’ Boys was ill-conceived, with Mama Minnie proving less formidable than Madam Rose. Shelley Winters wasn’t up to Merman or Lansbury, either. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p634

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