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| 2018 | Lunt-Fontanne Theatre Original. April 23, 2018 · Des McAnuff | 289 performances |
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“Summer” (lyric and music by Irwin Graham); “The Yogurt Sisters” (lyric by Dennis Fitzpatrick, music by Michael Grace); and “True” and “Paisan,” book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p361
Take Me Along wasn’t the first musical adaptation of O’Neill’s comedy. MGM’s 1948 musical Summer Holiday was a problematic version of the story with lyrics by Ralph Blane, music by Harry Warren, and a cast that included Mickey Rooney (Richard), Gloria DeHaven (Muriel), and Walter Houston (Nat Miller). book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p828
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS’ Summer and Smoke (10/10/48; 102 performances), which was not a success. One problem was that audiences had seen A Streetcar Named Desire the previous year and expected more of the same. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p386
Behrman’s End of Summer (2/17/36; 153 performances), starring Ina Claire and Osgood Perkins, was also a success. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p548
Williams’s next play, Summer and Smoke (10/6/48; 102 performances), was unsuccessful at the time, per- haps because it paled in comparison with Streetcar. The play opened at the Music Box THEaTER. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p580
Like Summer and Smoke, The Threepenny Opera was a breakthrough: a successful Off Broadway production of a stagework that had previously failed on Broadway. book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p515
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