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Vintage ’60

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Shows · Vintage ’60

Capote's colorful Holly and the success of the Tiffany's movie meant that a Broadway musical would inevitably follow, and in fact, there was never anything wrong with the idea of Tiffany's as a musical. But Peter Allen playing Prohibitionera gangster Legs Diamond was an idea doomed to failure from the start. Allen and his close friend Charles Suppon began to write the book for Legs Diamond (Mark Hellinger; Dec.

Opened
1960
Performances
8
Type
Musical
Era
Golden Age
Music: David BakerLyrics: Sheldon Harnick:Book: Jerome Coopersmith

Productions1 on Broadway

1960 Mark Hellinger Original. September 9, 1960 · Jonathan Lucas 8 performances

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Vintage ’60 also looked at television and politics in the sketch “Convention,” and it too offered sketches about medicine (“Tranquilizers”) and New York (“The Kinney System Parking Lot Plot”). book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p107

“Vanityade” had been in the 1956 Follies (and as “Vanityades” would later surface in the 1960 Broadway revue Vintage ’60 ). book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p722

And in 1960, the Broadway revue Vintage ’60 also looked at television and politics in the book:the-complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-hardcover-2014-rowman-lit#p107

The latter (as “Vanityades”) also appeared in the short-lived Broadway revue Vintage ’60. book:the-complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-hardcover-2014-rowman-lit#p574

Lee launched her career with the Broadway revue Vintage ’60 (1960), followed by landing the lead as Rosemary in How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying (1961); she also starred in the 1967 film. book:the-golden-age-of-american-musical-theatre-1943-1965-naden-corinne-j-rowman-litt#p173

Three of Merrick’s—Carnival, Do Re Mi, and Irma La Douce —ran more than a year. The other—a revue called Vintage ’60 —couldn’t last more than a week. book:b007l4owcu-ebok-peter-filichia#p14

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