Productions1 on Broadway
| 1986 | Lunt-Fontanne Original. November 24, 1986 · Howard Ashman | 48 performances |
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Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
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In the literature26 passages
There were also some new musicals — Uptown... It's Hot, Smile and The Gospel at Colonus; book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p58
Afterlife: Stuart Duncan presented the revised Smzle, Smile, Smile, with Hugo & Luigi and George Weiss providing book as well as score, on April 4, 1974, at the Off-Broadway Eastside Playhouse for a scant seven performances. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p1036
SMILE was pretty much a mess, with Hamlisch’s efforts having little to offer besides a pleasantly jingly title tune. book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p389
Ashman died (with only one Broadway show to his credit, the mirthless SMILE [Hamlisch: November 24, 1986]). Tim Rice, of EVITAT [September 25, 1979], stepped in to finish the Aladdin lyrics. book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p393
Today, The Provincetown Follies would be classified as an Off-Broadway show, but during the era many downtown productions were included as part of the Broadway season, and for the 1935–1936 Best Plays annual, the show was listed along with Smile at Me, At Home Abroad, and other revues of the season. book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p411
The cast of The Straw Hat Revue included perennial revue-maiden Imogene Coca, who appeared in thirteen Broadway musicals during her lengthy career, eleven of which were revues; only her first (When You Smile, 1925) and last (On the Twentieth Century, 1978) shows were book musicals. book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p607
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