Productions1 on Broadway
| 1955 | Mark Hellinger Theatre Original. January 27, 1955 · Morton Da Costa | 461 performances |
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Licensing 1 entry
| US | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
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In the literature34 passages
The musicals of the post-Oklahoma! era seemed overly populated with these hoyden Jejune Allyson types (Daisy in Bloomer Girl, Hildy in On the Town, Carrie in Carousel, Lois in Kiss Me, Kate, Cissy in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Lola in Seventeen, and Hilda in Plain and Fancy). book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p57
The London production opened at the Drury Lane on January 25, 1956, for a run of 315 performances; Shirl Conway and Richard Derr reprised their Broadway roles, and Philip Nasta (who danced in the original production) reproduced Helen Tamiris’s choreography. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p447
the Winter Garden Theatre was the place to watch her because she appeared there six times, first as a chorus-dancer replacement in Plain and Fancy, later in Shangri-La, and then in the current Ziegfeld Follies; three months after the latter closed, Lawrence was back at the Winter Garden as Maria in the original product… book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p614
In the 1954 production, Barbara Cook had played the secondary female role of Carrie Pipperidge; in the intervening years she had created two roles on Broadway (Hilda in Plain and Fancy and Cunegonde in Candide ), and so this time around she was Julie Jordan, the musical’s leading lady book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p650
The incidental music for the drama was composed by Albert Hague, whose first Broadway musical Plain and Fancy opened in 1955; in 1959 he won the Tony Award for Best Composer for his score for Redhead . book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p885
The next original musical to play the Mark Hellinger was Plain and Fancy (1/27/55; 461 performances), which had an Amish setting. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p355
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