Productions1 on Broadway
| 1996 | Music Box Theatre Original. March 27, 1996 · James Hammerstein, Randy Skinner | 110 performances |
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Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals R&H Theatricals | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals R&H Theatricals | available |
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In the literature24 passages
Today, some of the score lives on in stage versions of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1945 film State Fair and 1957 television musical Cinderella , both of which had short scores requiring more music to fill out their evenings. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p332
the 1996 Broadway version of State Fair , which appropriated two songs from Pipe Dream book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p517
After a stint in Hollywood, where they wrote the movie musical State Fair, the team’s next Broadway musical was Allegro at the Majestic Theater (10/10/47; 315 performances). book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p462
Merrick returned to Broadway with two final musicals, an ill-advised stage version of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s State Fair (1996). book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p1101
the 1973 Broadway version of GIGI (for which Loewe and Lerner wrote additional songs) and the 1996 version of STATE FAIR (which included previously unused Rodgers and Hammerstein material) are included; British productions of Porter’s TV musical “Aladdin” or Loesser’s film Hans Christian Andersen—filled out with interp… book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p22
Back in 1944, before starting CAROUSEL, Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote six songs for a movie musical remake of State Fair (which didn’t open until the summer of 1945, after CAROUSEL). The surface parallels to OKLAHOMA! [March 31, 1943] were many, although the action took place in folksy Iowa, but State Fair had none of… book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p135
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