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Street Scene

Street Scene

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Street Scene is a 1929 American play by Elmer Rice. It opened January 10, 1929, at the Playhouse Theatre in New York City.

Opened
1947
Performances
148
Type
Musical
Era
Golden Age
Music: Kurt WeillLyrics: Langston HughesBook: Elmer Rice

Productions2 on Broadway

1929 Playhouse Theatre Original. January 10, 1929 · predates this show 601 performances
1947 Adelphi Theatre Revival. January 9, 1947 · Charles Friedman 148 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 1 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 literature44 passages

Another hopeful sign is the number of opera companies that have added musical theatre works to their repertoires. Not only does this help break down artificial barriers, it also creates new audiences for such notable examples as the Kern-Hammerstein Show Boat , the Gershwin-Heyward Porgy and Bess , the Rodgers-Hammerst… book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p13

Bond, Ruth Street Scene, 132 book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p353

The trend started in the late 1940s with such works as Kurt Weill’s Street Scene and Gian-Carlo Menotti’s The Telephone and The Medium , all of which premiered in 1947, and Marc Blitzstein’s Regina (1949). In the 1950s, the trend continued book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p3

City Opera’s revival of Kurt Weill’s Street Scene was the second of eight revivals by the company over a thirty-one-year period. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p814

Brady’s film ventures began in 1913 and continued until 1920. Later productions produced by Brady include The Ruined Lady (1/19/20; 176 performances), The Skin Game (10/20/20; 176 performances), Street Scene (PULITZER Prize) (1/10/29; 601 performances), and A Church Mouse (10/12/31; 164 performances). book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p101

The Playwrights’ Company began the 1950s on a sharp note with Sidney Kingsley’s Darkness at Noon (1/31/51; 186 performances), which won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play. Other productions of the 1950s included Rice’s Not for Children (2/13/51; 7 performances); Jan de Hartog’s The Fourposter (10/24… book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p431

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