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Sherry! The Broadway Musical (World Premiere Cast Recording) by Original...

Sherry!

Shows · Sherry!

The musical version of the Kaufman and Hart comedy The Man Who Came to Dinner (1939) featured Clive Revill as the celebrated radio star Sheridan Whiteside who is laid up in the Ohio home of the Stanley family and drives them all to distraction with his demands. Elizabeth Allen was his wisecracking secretary Maggie, Dolores Gray was the temperament star Lorraine Sheldon, and Byron Webster was the Noel Cowardish Englis…

Opened
1967
Performances
65
Type
Musical
Era
Revolution
Music: Laurence RosenthalLyrics: James LiptonBook: James Lipton

Productions1 on Broadway

1967 Alvin Theatre Original. March 28, 1967 · Joe Layton 65 performances

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In the literature12 passages

Sherry! (1967). Finally, a palpable hit arrived in October 1967, when Tom Stoppards coruscating play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead opened. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p292

Her last original role in a musical was the short-lived Sherry!, in which she considerably brightened the proceedings with her trademark verve. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p90

These were the same gentlemen who in 1967 produced Sherry!, and who in 1974 had the bright idea of transmogrifying the twenty-five-year-old Carol Channing vehicle Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1949) into the Carol Channing vehicle Lorelei. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p131

Choreographer Ron Field (who was also fired from Ais prior show, Sherry! [1967]. What a way to follow up Cabaret [1966]). book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p364

Da Costa was to receive only one Broadway musical assignment from 1967 until his death in 1989, and Maggie Flynn was it. But then, this was a year before Kent State. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p593

CHARLIE BROWN opened during one of the most dismal stretches Broadway had ever known, with sixteen consecutive flop musicals in a row— including BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S [Merrill: December 14, 1966], SHERRY! [March 28, 1967], MATA HARI! [December 9, 1967], GOLDEN RAINBOWT [February 4, 1968], and I’M SOLO- MONT [April 23,… book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p426

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