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Wish You Were Here

Shows · Wish You Were Here

It was known as the musical with the swimming pool, but Wish You Were Here had other things going for it, including a cast of ingratiating actors, a warm and witty score by Harold Rome, and a director, Joshua Logan, who wouldn’t stop making improvements even after the Broadway opening (among them were new dances choreographed by Jerome Robbins). The musical, which Arthur Kober and Logan adapted from Kober’s 1937 play…

Opened
1952
Performances
598
Type
Musical
Era
Golden Age
Music: Harold RomeLyrics: Harold RomeBook: Arthur Kober & Joshua Logan

Productions1 on Broadway

1952 Imperial Theatre Original. June 25, 1952 · Joshua Logan 598 performances

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Licensing 1 entry

US Music Theatre International Wish You Were Here matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor

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In the literature32 passages

Bond, Sheila Wish You Were Here, 154 book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p353

Wish You Were Here is now best remembered as the “swimming pool musical,” but it wasn’t the first to dip its toe into the Broadway pool. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p271

Wish You Were Here ’s audiences went home whistling more than the scenery; Harold Rome’s infectious title song, an insinuating bolero, became one of the most popular show tunes of the era. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p272

Another sketch (which included songs) was an elaborate first-act finale spoof titled “Hope You Come Back,” which managed to combine, and slaughter, two recent Broadway hits directed by Joshua Logan, the 1952 musical Wish You Were Here and the play Picnic , which had opened in early 1953. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p359

Wish You Were Here, a fair musical version of Arthur Kober's delightful play Having Wonderful Time, opened and managed to run for 598 performances, mainly because Eddie Fisher (who was not in the show) recorded the title song and it became a Hit Parade favorite. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p180

"Wish you Were Here, 162","With a Song in My Heart," 268 book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p377

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