Productions3 on Broadway
| 1920 | Greenwich Village Theatre Original. March 2, 1920 · predates this show | 79 performances |
| 1944 | Playhouse Theatre Revival. December 25, 1944 · Michael Gordon · predates this show | 9 performances |
| 1963 | Winter Garden Revival. April 15, 1963 · Jack Sydow | 8 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 2 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.
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In the literature8 passages
The film was never made, but ten years later the Broadway musical Sophie opened (and quickly closed, after eight performances). The lyrics and music were by Steve Allen, and Libi Staiger played the title role. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p883
Sophie, Steve Allen’s attempt at an even more Jewish funny girl; Aint Broadway Grand (one of two musicals with Gypsy Rose Lee as a character); and finally Kean, the story of actor Edmund Kean with an underappreciated score. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p113
Saddler was saddled with more than his share of stinkers (Shangri-La, Sophie, Tricks, Teddy and Alice), and his greatest work was in the revivals of No, No, Nanette and On Your Toes. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p232
Why was Funny Girl so fine and Sophie so dull? Sophie had little humor and made its heroine quite unlikable. The musical Fanny Brice, ambitious as she was, tried to make her marriage work, and was lovably pushy and sympathetic throughout. book:not-since-carrie-forty-years-of-broadway-musical-flops-ken-mandelbaum#p253
My dog Sophie. She’s a white Maltese. book:the-playbill-broadway-yearbook-june-2007-to-may-2008-viagas-robert-4th-annual-ed#p123
Sophie (8) had the feisty Libi Staiger’s red-hot momma version of Sophie Tucker, but was otherwise reckoned inferior. book:west-end-broadway-the-golden-age-of-the-american-musical-adrian-wright-boydell-b#p223
Passages naming this show, found by keyword across 178 books. Where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.