Productions1 on Broadway
| 1924 | Fulton Theatre Original. April 8, 1924 · Fred G. Latham, Julian Alfred | 95 performances |
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Three years before Show Boat Kern quoted the openings of both the first movement and the even more well-known slow movement from Dvořák’s symphony in the dance music of “Shufflin’ Sam” (from Sitting Pretty), perhaps as a musical pun to support Sam’s motto, “This old world’s no place to cry and be glum in. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p620
and all three once more on Sitting Pretty, a failed attempt in 1924 to resuscitate the old Princess style. book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p190
Sitting Pretty is not without merit. Kern was beginning to abandon the all-dance-tune musical in favor of ballads. book:musical-a-grand-tour-the-rise-glory-and-fall-of-an-flinn-denny-martin-new-york-l#p173
If all three did not work as a team after Sitting Pretty, it was almost surely a question of circumstances. book:musical-a-grand-tour-the-rise-glory-and-fall-of-an-flinn-denny-martin-new-york-l#p177
Crooks and young women are in love with men to whom their guardians are opposed {Sitting Pretty). book:musical-a-grand-tour-the-rise-glory-and-fall-of-an-flinn-denny-martin-new-york-l#p178
Sitting Pretty (Paramount, 1933). The mirrors reveal what the fans conceal in Paramount's answer to Busby Berkeley, conceived jointly by director Harry Joe Brown and dance director Larry Ceballos. book:the-best-musicals-from-show-boat-to-a-chorus-line-by-arthur-jackson-foreword-by-#p133
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