Productions1 on Broadway
| 1934 | New Amsterdam Theatre Original. November 28, 1934 · Hassard Short, Komisarjevsky | 158 performances |
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The next musical at the New Amsterdam arrived with a touch of scandal. It was called Revenge With Music by Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz. It starred torch singer Libby Holman, who had been accused of fatally shooting her wealthy husband, a Reynolds tobacco heir, but was acquitted. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p33
Revenge with Music (1934; “You and the Night and the Music”); and Cole Porter’s You Never Know (1938; the title song and “What Is That Tune?”). book:the-complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-hardcover-2014-rowman-lit#p411
Revenge With Music (1934) was their first book show together. Although it ran only 158 performances, it featured "You and the Night and the Music." book:musical-a-grand-tour-the-rise-glory-and-fall-of-an-flinn-denny-martin-new-york-l#p133
Revenge with Music, a musical play by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz based on Falla’s The Three-Cornered Hat, which ran for 158 performances. True, it may have been overshadowed by the success of Anything Goes which had opened a week earlier, but there must surely have been room for an imaginative musical that starre… book:the-best-musicals-from-show-boat-to-a-chorus-line-by-arthur-jackson-foreword-by-#p46
Musicals: Poppy (23); Dear Sir (24); Oh Kay! (26); Queen High (26); Here Comes the Bride (30); Three's a Crowd (30); The Band Wagon (31); Flying Colors (32); Revenge with Music (34); Between the Devil (38); Keep Off the Grass (40); Jackpot (44); Sadie Thompson (44): The Gay Life (61); Jennie (63). book:the-best-musicals-from-show-boat-to-a-chorus-line-by-arthur-jackson-foreword-by-#p142
Their 1930s shows include: The Second Little Show (1930), Three’s A Crowd (1930), The Band Wagon (1931), Flying Colors (1932), Revenge With Music (1934), At Home Abroad (1935), The Show Is On (1937) and Between the Devil (1937). book:a-history-of-the-american-musical-theatre-no-business-like-nathaniel-hurwitz-tay#p148
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