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| 1957 | Broadway Theatre Original. April 13, 1957 · Production supervised by Sawyer Falk | 49 performances |
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Even such also-rans as Shinbone Alley (1957), Oh Captain! (1958), and First Impressions (1959) book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p4
Incidentally, for Shinbone Alley , Chita Rivera was Eartha Kitt’s standby, and Tom Poston was Eddie Bracken’s. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p629
Mel Brooks and Joe Darion made a musical of Don Marquis's archy and mehitabel, called Shinbone Alley, but Eartha Kitt, Eddie Bracken, and others could not turn it into gold. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p210
whose past included two musical comedy nightmares—Shinbone Alley (1957) and All American (1962)—and whose future included the 1968 film The Producers. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p532
Shinbone Alley, the ill-advised 1957 musicalization of archy and mehitabel—to his credit. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p608
Mel Brooks’s one book show had been SHINBONE ALLEY, the stage version of Archie and Mehitabel. book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p497
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