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| 1934 | Fulton Theatre Original. March 15, 1934 · Leonard Sillman | 149 performances |
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Originally presented in Pasadena as Low and Behold, Leonard Sillman’s New Faces had to give 137 auditions before the needed $15,000 was raised to open at the Fulton Theatre (then on 46th Street west of Broadway). Under the “supervision” of Elsie Janis, Sillman’s dewy-eyed, intimate revue served much the same function a… book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p92
There would be more spoofs down the road (including three more editions of New Faces ), but none matched the success of the 1952 revue. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p260
Hammerlee may not have been destined to play Lizzie on Broadway in Curtain Going Up , but the theatre gods ensured she introduced the merry number two months later in New Faces ; all agreed the song was one of the revue’s highlights, and it was preserved on the New Faces ’ cast album. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p267
Six months after Pleasure Dome closed down, its director David Tihmar and song writers Dean Fuller and Marshall Barer reunited for New Faces of 1956 ; Tihmar choreographed the new revue, and Fuller and Barer contributed a number of songs. Two of their numbers, “La Ronde” (“This Is Quite a Perfect Night”) and “Mustapha… book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p556
The 1960s brought Frank Loesser's unsuccessful musical Greemvillow (i960), starring Anthony Perkins, Ellen McCown, Pert Kelton, and Cecil Kellaway; the Ballets Africains and West Side Story, from the Winter Garden (i960): Lucille Ball in a moderately entertaining musical (and Cy Coleman's Broadway debut), Wildcat (1961… book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p291
Sillman began his New Faces in 1934; there were seven editions in all, whenever he was able to scrounge up the money. Only one, the aforementioned New Faces of 1952, had much to recommend it. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p669
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