Productions1 on Broadway
| 1929 | Alvin Theatre Original. March 11, 1929 · Alexander Leftwich | 104 performances |
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In the literature6 passages
“Spring Is Here”—different than song (unpublished) from SPRING IS HERE [March 11, 1929] book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p206
I Married an Angel—initial use of song written for unproduced 1933 film version “Spring Is Here [2nd|—different than song (unpublished) from SPRING IS HERE [March 11, 1929] book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p128
Note that “Spring Is Here” isn’t the song of the same title that Rodgers and Hart wrote as the title number for their 1929 Broadway musical Spring Is Here (the earlier song is also known as “Spring Is Here in Person,” and the more famous one from I Married an Angel asks the question, “Why doesn’t my heart go dancing?”)… book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p514
peretta and musical comedy star Dennis King, who appeared in Rudolf Friml’s Rose-Marie (1924; and introduced “Indian Love Call” and the title song); Friml’s The Vagabond King (1925; “Only a Rose” and “March of the Vagabonds”); and Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s I Married an Angel (1938; “Spring Is Here,” “Did You Ev… book:the-complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-hardcover-2014-rowman-lit#p463
‘Why Can’t I?’ from Spring Is Here (1929) and ‘This Can’t Be Love’ from The Boys from Syracuse (1938). book:cambridge-companion-to-the-musical-cambridge-companions-to-music-the-the-cambrid#p160
In turning the only moderately successful 1929 Broadway production of Spring Is Here into a 1930 movie, First National dropped all but three of Rodgers and Hart’s songs (as well as most of Fields’s original book), though keeping and heavily promoting the show’s big hit, “With a Song in My Heart.” book:the-melody-lingers-on-the-great-songwriters-and-their-movie-hemming-roy-new-york#p228
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