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Panama Hattie

Panama Hattie

Shows · Panama Hattie

According to Ethel Merman, Hattie Maloney in Panama Hattie was an expansion of the Katie who went to Haiti in DuBarry Was a Lady. The show was the first in which Miss Merman received solo star billing and it had the longest run of the five musicals in which she was spotlighted singing the songs of Cole Porter.

Opened
1940
Performances
501
Type
Musical
Era
Early
Music: Cole PorterLyrics: Cole PorterBook: Herbert Fields & B. G. DeSylva

Productions1 on Broadway

1940 46th Street Theatre Original. October 30, 1940 · Edgar MacGregor 501 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.

Recordings 1 album held

Licensing 2 entries

US Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available
UK Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available

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In the literature39 passages

Panama Hattie was the last of the three-in-a-row hits produced by B.G. DeSylva. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p115

Alton, Robert Anything Goes By Jupiter DuBarry Was a Lady Hooray for What! Leave It to Me! Life Begins at 8:40 Me and Juliet Panama Hattie Show Is On, The Too Many Girls Ziegfeld Follies book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p387

Bremer, Lucille Panama Hattie, 111 book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p353

The situation was somewhat similar to Herbert Fields and Buddy G. DeSylva’s book for Cole Porter’s 1940 musical Panama Hattie, in which the title character is romantically involved with a divorced man and has to win over his reluctant daughter. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p373

Herbert, Porter, De Sylva, and Merman were reteamed for Panama Hattie (10/30/40; 501 performances), a formula musical that nevertheless gave Merman an attractive vehicle. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p189

De Sylva convinced Merman and Porter to reteam for Panama Hattie (10/30/40; 501 performances), her first solo starring role. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p369

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