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Show Girl

Show Girl

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A showgirl is a dancer or performer in a stage entertainment show.

Opened
1929
Performances
111
Type
Musical
Era
Early
Music: George GershwinLyrics: Ira Gershwin, Gus KahnBook: William Anthony McGuire

Productions2 on Broadway

1929 Ziegfeld Theatre Original. July 2, 1929 · William Anthony McGuire 111 performances
1961 Revival Theatre not recorded. January 12, 1961 100 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.

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In the literature13 passages

the 1961 revue that starred Carol Channing; and the 1960 Off-Broadway production of Hedda Gabler ; and An Evening with Edith Piaff [sic] in Paris (filmed at the Olympia Theatre in Paris). Later pay-per-view offerings included From the Second City (as The Second City Revue ). book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p35

“Liza” (Show Girl, 1929; lyric by Ira Gershwin and Gus Kahn, music by George Gershwin) book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p529

he suffered two enormous flops when the lavish Show Girl (1929) and Smiles expired after 111 and 63 respective performances and the London hit Bitter Sweet (1929) closed in New York after a run of less than five months. book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p130

The program stated there would be three more productions following the telecast of The Consul: Show Girl (the 1961 revue that starred Carol Channing); the 1960 Off-Broadway production of Hedda Gabler; and An Evening with Edith Piaff [sic] in Paris. book:the-complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-hardcover-2014-rowman-lit#p35

“Liza” (Show Girl, 1929; lyric by Ira Gershwin and Gus Kahn, music by George Gershwin). book:the-complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-hardcover-2014-rowman-lit#p532

“Home Blues” (aka “Home”) (the refrain was based on a theme from George Gershwin’s tone poem “An American in Paris,” which premiered at Carnegie Hall in 1928; the song was first introduced in the 1929 musical Show Girl) (Sara Ramirez, Patrick Wilson) book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p376

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