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| 1950 | Broadway Theatre Original. October 5, 1950 · Uncredited | 100 performances |
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Dance Me a Song , the shortest-running revue of the lot, included three ballads that later enjoyed a certain amount of currency among cabaret singers and recording artists: “Lilac Wine,” the delicate yet torchy “I’m the Girl,” and “One Is a Lonely Number” (the latter’s lyric was written by Maurice Valency, who is best… book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p21
Pardon Our French was perhaps a bit more sedate than their earlier ventures. True, an avalanche of feathers was dropped from the ceiling of the Broadway Theatre, to the consternation of many unlucky ticketholders (who, according to Robert Coleman in the Daily Mirror , “fled under the balcony for protection”), and an ac… book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p79
Despite its large cast and lavish production values (and a huge initial investment of $230,000), Bless You All was yet another in the parade of the era’s luckless revues, and like Alive and Kicking , Dance Me a Song , Tickets, Please! , Michael Todd’s Peep Show , and Pardon Our French , it soon disappeared. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p105
Pardon Our Antenna was Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson’s alleged salute to television, but the lampoon never got beyond its Chicago tryout. The halcyon days of Hellzapoppin’ and Sons o’ Fun and even Laffing Room Only were long gone for the comedy team of Olsen and Johnson (for more information about their revues, see Pardon… book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p489
Olsen and Johnson of Hellzapoppin and other zany revues tried a new one out here called Pardon Our French in 1950, but even with French beauty Denise Darcel in the show it managed to run for only 100 performances. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p209
As noted, when Hellzapoppin closed it had chalked up 1,404 performances; its follow-ups Sons o’ Fun (1941) played for 742 performances, Laffing Room Only (1944) for 233 showings, Funzapoppin (1949) for 37, and Pardon Our French (1950) for 100. book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p526
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