Productions1 on Broadway
| 1960 | 46th Street Original. October 17, 1960 · George Abbott | 216 performances |
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Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Tenderloin matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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In the literature28 passages
The team’s songs for The Body Beautiful were tuneful and lively, and the next year they wrote the score for the long-running Pulitzer Prize-winning Fiorello! , and during the next eleven years were represented on Broadway five times with Tenderloin (1960), She Loves Me (1963), Fiddler on the Roof (1964), The Apple Tree… book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p675
The same team, Bock and Harnick, and book writers Abbott and Jerome Weidman couldn’t repeat their success with Tenderloin (10/17/60; 216 performances), which opened at the 46th Street Theatre. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p27
Their next effort was also a period piece. Tenderloin (10/17/ 60) starred Maurice Evans as a righteous minister who took it upon himself to clean up the notorious Tenderloin section of Manhattan. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p94
TENDERLOIN took place in a little older New York than FIORELLO! [November 23, 1959] and switched from inside politics to inside vice. The creators did a fine job with the colorful bad guys (and dolls) in numbers like Little Old New York and the sparkling Picture of Happiness; but the good guys in the story—a reforming… book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p286
Then, for a dozen years that stretched over the decade of the 1960s, they combined their talents in the creation of seven Broadway shows: The Body Beautiful ( 1958 ), Fiorello! (1959), Tenderloin (1960), She Loves Me (1963), Fiddler on the Roof ( 1964 ), The Apple Tree ( 1966)-actually three one-acters-and The Rothschi… book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p390
Amalia’s yearning “Will He Like Me?” and “Dear Friend” (not to be confused with Bock and Harnick’s polka “Dear Friend” from their 1960 musical Tenderloin). book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p142
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