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| 1950 | Coronet Theatre Original. April 27, 1950 · Mervyn Nelson | 245 performances |
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Unlike Small Wonder (1948), Along Fifth Avenue (1949), Touch and Go (1949), and Alive and Kicking before it, and Tickets, Please! (1950), Michael Todd’s Peep Show (1950), and Pardon Our French (1951) after it, Dance Me a Song , the shortest-running revue of the lot, included three ballads that later enjoyed a certain a… book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p21
Tickets, Please! was a major stepping-stone in Frank Albertson’s career. He had appeared in a number of shows, including the flop musicals Allah Be Praised! (1944) and A Lady Says “Yes” (1945), and after Tickets, Please! was seen in Top Banana (1951). book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p54
Despite its large cast and lavish production values (and a huge initial investment of $230,000), Bless You All was yet another in the parade of the era’s luckless revues, and like Alive and Kicking , Dance Me a Song , Tickets, Please! , Michael Todd’s Peep Show , and Pardon Our French , it soon disappeared. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p105
Tickets, Please! kidded politics (“A Senate Investigation”), television (“Television’s Tough on Love”), and cubist art (“Washington Square”). book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p107
The Hartmans' formula paid off for 245 performances. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p226
Tickets, Please! marked the New York debut of future Broadway Baby Larry Kert. book:the-complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-hardcover-2014-rowman-lit#p55
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