Productions1 on Broadway
| 1945 | National Theatre Original. November 22, 1945 · Edward Padula, John C. Wilson | 165 performances |
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Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International The Day Before Spring matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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In the literature4 passages
The team persevered and created Brigadoon after a modest effort, The Day Before Spring, which closed out of town. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p46
Spring was not a success, but a $250,000 film sale to MGM Studios stabi- lized the team. book:musical-a-grand-tour-the-rise-glory-and-fall-of-an-flinn-denny-martin-new-york-l#p360
On their way to Brigadoon’s lucky opening night in 1947 at the Ziegfeld Theatre, Lerner and Loewe had already written two shows together, neither of which clicked: What’s Up, a 1943 wartime musical directed by George Balanchine, and the promising The Day Before Spring, a 1948 venture that did not survive split notices. book:broadway-musicals-a-hundred-year-history-lewis-david-h-2002-2012-mcfarland-compa#p93
With composer Frederick Lowe he formed one of the legendary partnerships of the American musical theatre, beginning with their collaboration on The Day Before Spring. book:theatre-world-1986-87-season-v-43-willis-john#p233
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