Productions1 on Broadway
| 1960 | Winter Garden Original. November 3, 1960 · Dore Schary | 532 performances |
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Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International The Unsinkable Molly Brown matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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In the literature31 passages
The offbeat actress Tammy Grimes proved a sensation in The Unsinkable Molly Brown in i960, playing an actual character from the early 1900s. Act II included a depiction of the sinking of the Titanic. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p66
and finally Kean, the story of actor Edmund Kean with an underappreciated score. So that leaves us with Fiorello!, The King and I, Annie Get Your Gun, Gypsy, The Sound of Music, Evita, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Wonderful Town (yes, the Sherwood sisters were based on real people), and Funny Girl; book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p113
Each of his successive shows yielded diminishing returns, with his scores for The Unsinkable Molly Brown (half buoyant, half just barely afloat), Here’s Love (treading water), and 1491 (going down for the third time) on a decided downward trajectory of quality. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p222
The Guild was responsible for Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s first Broadway success, The Garrick Gaieties; Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s first collaboration, the groundbreaking Oklahoma!; as well as Porgy and Bess, Carousel, Bells Are Ringing, and The Unsinkable Molly Brown. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p276
Other musical productions include Bells Are Ringing (1956) and The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1960). book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p386
Two other musicals, The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1960) and Here’s Love (1963), followed, although neither achieved the popularity of The Music Man. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p414
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