Productions2 on Broadway
| 1918 | Booth Theatre Original. January 22, 1918 · predates this show | 225 performances |
| 1951 | Broadhurst Theatre Revival. June 21, 1951 · Staging by Hassard Short and book direction by Richard Whorf | 182 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 1 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
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In the literature15 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
A musical version of Seventeen (1951) fared much better, playing for 180 performances. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p122
Seventeen was the only Broadway score by the team of Kim Gannon and Walter Kent. book:the-complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-hardcover-2014-rowman-lit#p192
The musical didn’t produce any popular standards, but they wrote one of the most enduring of all holiday songs with their sweet and poignant “I’ll Be Home for Christmas.” book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p191
Dancer and future Broadway choreographer Donia (later, Dania) Krupska was the featured performer during the Chester Hale’s Girls sequence (she later danced in the original Broadway production of Can-Can, and choreographed the original Broadway productions of such musicals as Seventeen) book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p572
Sally Benson, who had co-authored the book for the one-month run of the musical Memphis Bound in 1945 and adapted Booth Tarkington’s novel Seventeen to the musical stage in 1951, based her play Josephine on the stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. book:broadway-bound-a-guide-to-shows-that-died-aborning#p250
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