Productions1 on Broadway
| 1926 | Vanderbilt Theatre Original. December 27, 1926 · Robert Milton | 333 performances |
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Peggy-Ann (12/27/26; 354 performances) was a strange musical with surrealistic overtones. The majority of the show illustrated Peggy-Ann’s dreams. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p187
Peggy-Ann distinction as the first musical comedy to express Freud’s theories on the stage “by dealing with subconscious fears and fantasies.” book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p122
In the 1936 On Your Toes Rodgers and Hart attempted an integration of music and drama that went beyond their successful innovations in Peggy-Ann and their unsuccessful ones in Chee-Chee. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p124
Rodgers is the first to admit that a number of his musicals created with Hart do not even aspire to, much less achieve, the goals he first enunciated in the late 1920s with Dearest Enemy and Peggy-Ann. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p259
Stanley Green summarizes other innovations in Peggy-Ann: “No songs were sung within the first fifteen minutes, the scenery and costumes were changed in full view of the audience, and the first and last scenes were played in almost total darkness.” Stanley Green, Broadway Musicals Show by Show. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p636
In 1936 Rodgers and Hart attempted an integration of music and drama that went beyond their successful innovations in Peggy-Ann and their unsuccessful ones in Chee-Chee. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-uni#p124
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