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| 1964 | Eugene O’Neill Original. November 10, 1964 · Jule Styne | 15 performances |
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William Goldenberg (dance music arranger of Bennett’s early Henry, Sweet Henry [1967]) and the Bergmans (whose only show had been the 1964 flop Something More!) had provided the incidental songs for TV. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p105
Alas, they turned out to be a trio of 1964 offerings from producer Lester Osterman—High Spirits, Fade Out—Fade In, and Something More!—and the specimen at hand. Henry's teenaged chorus girls pretty much described the proceed-ings in the very opening number book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p449
In the scramble by record companies to capture the next big hit, ABC-Paramount-On Stage plunked down one million bucks for half-interests in four big Broadway musicals. Alas, they turned out to be a trio of 1964 offerings from producer Lester Osterman—High Spirits, Fade Out—Fade In, and Something More!—and the specimen… book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-steven-suskin#p448
Fain, who wrote five consecutive Broadway musical flops (Toplitzky of Notre Dame, Flahooley, Ankles Aweigh, Christine, Something More! ), never failed to come up with a few catchy tunes, and the cast recording of Ankles Aweigh is the kind that collectors rarely admit to playing as often as they do. book:not-since-carrie-forty-years-of-broadway-musical-flops-ken-mandelbaum#p42
Of the flops, one—Something More! (Eugene O’Neill; Nov. 10, ’64; 15)—had virtually nothing going for it except Cook. book:not-since-carrie-forty-years-of-broadway-musical-flops-ken-mandelbaum#p65
Of the four major flops of the year three are long forgotten — Café Crown (3), Something More! or less (15), and the Italian Rugantino (28) by Giovannini and Garinei, three of whose musicals reached London — but one, Anyone Can Whistle (9) has passed into legend. book:west-end-broadway-the-golden-age-of-the-american-musical-adrian-wright-boydell-b#p235
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