Productions1 on Broadway
| 1962 | 54th Street Theatre Original. March 15, 1962 · Joe Layton | 580 performances |
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Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
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In the literature35 passages
Richard Rodgers fared better with No Strings, the first musical for which he wrote both music and lyrics, with a book by Samuel Taylor. The show moved here 105 book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p123
He musical debut as the juvenile lead in Kismet, singing ‘ Redhead, and was almost continually employed through the 1960s, as the r tic lead of No Strings and in the Buddy Hackett vehicle / Had a Ball. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p213
Carroll as Clara, the mother who sings “Summertime,” did not sing Clara onstage, but she was nonetheless an able singer who before long would record an album of Porgy and Bess songs and even starred in a Tony Award–winning performance of Richard Rodgers’s No Strings; book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p215
The result, the biracial romance No Strings (1962) with Diahann Carroll and Richard Kiley in the principal roles, turned out to be Rodgers’s final success (580 performances), albeit a modest one by the standards of Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p260
CARROLL, DIAHANN (BORN CAROL DIAHANN JOHNSON, 1935– ). African American film and television star who starred in House of Flowers (1954) and won a Tony Award for her performance as Barbara Woodruff in Richard Rodgers’s No Strings (1962). book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p97
Rodgers has provided his finest score since No Strings [1962]. Here, once more, were lilting, surprising melodies, singing out with no apologies to current musical theatre sophistication, nor any need for them. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p793
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