Productions2 on Broadway
| 1935 | Plymouth Theatre Original. October 31, 1935 · predates this show | 4 performances |
| 1958 | Broadway Revival. January 23, 1958 · George Schaefer | 60 performances |
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Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
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In the literature39 passages
A new musical, The Body Beautiful with a score by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, went nowhere, and closed to make room for Les Ballets de Paris, the Beryozka Russian Dance Company, and the Old Vic, imported by Sol Hurok, doing Henry V, Twelfth Night, and Hamlet. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p210
The two songwriters collaborated for the first time on a book musical, The Body Beautiful, which premiered on January 23, 1958. Unfortunately, the show ran only 60 performances, but the score was well received and appreciated by Bock and Harnick’s contemporaries. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p94
Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick’s first collaboration was The Body Beautiful (do you go around humming tunes from that one?). book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p45
This was followed by a big out-of-town flop, the 1951 Nancy Walker-starrer Month of Sundays, which caused Shevelove to set down his rhyming dictionary for good. Selden rebounded in 1955, writing music and lyrics and producing an even bigger out-of-town flop, The Amazing Adele (scripted by Anita Loos, with Adele played… book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p966
He first collaborated with lyricist Sheldon Harnick on The Body Beautiful (1958), which was followed by four Harold Prince-produced musicals: Fiorello! (1959), Tenderloin (1960), She Loves Me (1963), and Fiddler on the Roof (1964). book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p1089
Other early works include The Body Beautiful (1958). book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p1106
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