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My Favorite Year

My Favorite Year

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In 1954, young comedy writer Benjy Stone is assigned to babysit Alan Swann, a fading, hard-drinking movie swashbuckler who is guest-starring on a live television variety show. As the week progresses, Benjy tries to keep the charming but unreliable Swann sober and on schedule while dealing with his own Brooklyn family, a budding romance, and a dangerous union boss who wants to shut down the show. Through it all, Benjy…

Opened
1992
Performances
37
Type
Musical
Era
Megamusical
Music: Stephen FlahertyLyrics: Lynn AhrensBook: Joseph Dougherty

Productions1 on Broadway

1992 Vivian Beaumont Theater Original. December 10, 1992 · Ron Lagomarsino 37 performances

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Licensing 1 entry

US Music Theatre International My Favorite Year matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor

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In the literature17 passages

in a season also including future Broadway musicals The Secret Garden and My Favorite Year book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p180

MY FAVORITE YEAR was scheduled for a January 8, 1991, premiére as part of the New Musicals season, on a subscription series with KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN [1990]: [Kander: May 1, 1990]. book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p410

MY FAVORITE YEAR [December 10, 1992] gave him a chance to learn from his mistakes. book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p412

Winer said the musical was “another big lifeless imitation of a movie” that was “more slick and professional than My Favorite Year” but was still “mostly a bland, shapeless, paint-by-number replica of the movie.” book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p123

Jeremy Gerard in Variety said The Red Shoes joined “the growing roster of recent film-to-tuner flops,” which included Nick & Nora, My Favorite Year, and The Goodbye Girl. book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p162

My Favorite Year, 100–102 book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p469

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