Productions1 on Broadway
| 1960 | Alvin Theatre Original. December 16, 1960 · Michael Kidd | 172 performances |
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Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
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In the literature30 passages
Wildcat (Lucille Ball), Do Re Mi (Phil Silvers), Let It Ride! (George Gobel), Little Me (Sid Caesar), and 110 in the Shade (Robert Horton). book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p829
Coleman occasionally contributed incidental music to Broadway plays and songs for Off-Broadway revues, and in 1960 his first Broadway musical Wildcat opened with Lucille Ball in book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p880
The 1960s brought Frank Loesser's unsuccessful musical Greemvillow (i960), starring Anthony Perkins, Ellen McCown, Pert Kelton, and Cecil Kellaway; the Ballets Africains and West Side Story, from the Winter Garden (i960): Lucille Ball in a moderately entertaining musical (and Cy Coleman's Broadway debut), Wildcat (1961… book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p291
Lucille Ball made her Broadway debut in Wildcat (12/16/60; 171 performances). Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh provided the score, and N. Richard Nash wrote the book. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p394
Jyricists; librettists Jazz-pianist Coleman was first heard on Broadway with an interpolation in John Murray Anderson's Almanac (1953) and instrumental music for the drama Compulsion (1957). His first two Broadway scores, written with lyricist Carolyn Leigh, were the unsuccessful Wildcat (1960) and Little Me (1962). book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p1091
Subsequent musicals included Love Life (1948), Guys and Dolls (1950), and Can-Can (1953). He directed as well as choreographed Li? Abner (1956), Destry Rides Again (1959), Wildcat (1960), Subways Are for Sleeping (1961), Here's Love (1963, choreographer only), and Ben Franklin in Paris (1964). book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p1097
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