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Sweet Charity

Shows · Sweet Charity

Sweet Charity, subtitled A New Musical Comedy, is an album containing a recording of the 1966 Broadway musical Sweet Charity made by its original cast, with Gwen Verdon in the title role. The album was released on Columbia Masterworks on February 7, 1966.

Opened
1966
Performances
608
Type
Musical
Era
Revolution
Music: Cy ColemanLyrics: Dorothy FieldsBook: Neil Simon

Productions4 on Broadway

1942 Mansfield Theatre Original. December 28, 1942 · George Abbott · predates this show 8 performances
1966 Palace Theatre Revival. January 29, 1966 · Bob Fosse 608 performances
1986 Revival Theatre not recorded. April 27, 1986 369 performances
2005 Al Hirschfeld Theatre Revival. May 4, 2005 · Walter Bobbie 279 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.

Licensing 2 entries

US Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available
UK Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available

Read from the licensor's own pages and catalogues. Rights move, and an empty row means we have not confirmed a publisher, not that the show cannot be licensed.

In the literature53 passages

The musical was also the first legitimate show to play the Palace, the legendary vaudeville mecca on Broadway at 47th Street. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p208

After a 7-year break, Dorothy resumed her career without her brother, in a show that was another vehicle for Gwen Verdon, Sweet Charity (1/29/66; 608 performances). Cy Coleman collaborated with Dorothy on the score, and Nem SIMON wrote the libretto. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p190

Following a revival of Sweet Charity with Debbie Allen, the next failure at the Minskoff was Teddy and Alice (11/12/87; 77 performances), a musical starring Len Cariou. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p376

Coleman had introduced jazz rhythms in Sweet Charity, having previously written standard Broadway scores for Wildcat and Little Me. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p74

In four more Broadway shows, all with Fosse, Verdon owned Broadway: New Girl in Town (where she proved herself as a very fine dramatic actress), the murder-mystery musical Redhead (where she won her fourth Tony Award in seven years), Sweet Charity (where her over-the-shoulder stance became as famous as the Damn Yankees… book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p84

In addition to his work with Sondheim, Bernstein, Kander and Ebb, and Lloyd Webber, Prince during these years managed to direct On the Twentieth Century with yet another composer, Cy Coleman (with the legendary librettist-lyricists Comden and Green). Coleman was another distinguished composer with a long career that fl… book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p406

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