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Paint Your Wagon

Paint Your Wagon

Shows · Paint Your Wagon

Filling their musical play with authentic incidents and backgrounds, Lerner and Loewe struck it rich both musically and dramatically with a work that captured the flavor of the roistering, robust California gold fields of 1853. James Barton, returning to the musical stage for the first time in 20 years, took the part of Ben Rumson, a grizzled prospector whose daughter Jennifer (Olga San Juan) discovers gold near thei…

Opened
1951
Performances
289
Type
Musical
Era
Golden Age
Music: Frederick LoeweLyrics: Alan Jay LernerBook: Alan Jay Lerner

Productions1 on Broadway

1951 Shubert Theatre Original. November 12, 1951 · Daniel Mann 289 performances

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Licensing 1 entry

US Music Theatre International Paint Your Wagon matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor

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In the literature52 passages

The sketches included take-offs on such recent Broadway musicals and plays as Michael Todd’s Peep Show, Paint Your Wagon, Death of a Salesman, and The Shrike. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p266

Atkinson also mentioned that the team’s short-lived Paint Your Wagon should have enjoyed a much longer New York run. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p620

Lerner and Loewe show Paint Your Wagon (1951), starring James Barton, stayed for 289 performances; book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p103

Lerner and Loewe’s previous scores gave no indication of the depth of emotion, humor, or sophistication that was to come in Brigadoon (not to mention Paint Your Wagon, My Fair Lady, and others). book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p46

Agnes de Mille continued working with other major talents, spanning the globe and history with her versatile work for such shows as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Out of This World, and Paint Your Wagon. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p62

Kay Medford made her debut in Paint Your Wagon, before appearing in two revues, John Murray Anderson’s Almanac, and Almost Crazy. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p129

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