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1946 “Annie Get Your Gun”, “Show Boat”, “Call Me Mister”,

1947 “Brigadoon”, “Street Scene,” “A Streetcar Named Desire”.

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1948 “South Pacific”, “Kiss Me Kate.”
1949 “South Pacific”, Death of a Salesman”.
1950 “Guy and Dolls”, “Peter Pan”, Brigadoon’, “Carousel” London, “Call Me Madam”,

1951 “The King and I”, “The Mikado”, “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”, “Paint Your Wagon”.
1952 “Pal Joey”, “Pirates of Penzance”, “Wish You Were Here”.
1953 “Kismet”, “Danny Kaye-Revue”, “Jose Greco-Revue.
1954 “Golden Apple”, “Pajama Game”, By the Beautiful Sea”,
1955 “Plan and Fancy”, “ Silk Stockings”, “Kismet”, London, “Damn Yankees”, “Cat on a Hot Tin roof”.
1956 “My Fair Lady”, “Irma La Douce”, Paris, “Li’l Abner”, “Bells Are Ringing” “Candide”, Eugene O’Neill’s, “Long Days Journey Into Night”.
1957 “The Music Man”, Jamaica”, “West Side Story”.
1958 “The Flower Drum Song”, “Say Darling”, “Plume de Ma Tante, La” Revue.
1959 “Once Upon a Mattress”, “Gypsy”, “ Saratoga”, The Sound of Music”, “Destry Rides Again”, The Nervous Set”.

1960 “ Flower Drum Song” London, “The Fantasticks” off Broadway, “Camelot”, “Unsinkable Molly Brown”, “Bye, Bye Birdie”.
1961 “The Gay Life”, “How To succeed in Business Without Really Trying”, “Stop The World – I Want To Get Off”, London, “Carnival!”, “Milk and Honey”, Evening with Yves Montand”, “Night of the Iguana’.
1962 “I Can Get it for You Wholesale”, “No Strings”, This Was Burlesque’, off Broadway-revue”, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum’.
1963 “Oliver!’ “ Danny Kaye”, revue. “She Loves Me”, “110 in The Shade”, “The Girl Who Came to Dinner”.
1964 “Hello Dolly! “, “What Makes Sammy Run? “, “Funny Girl”, “I had a Ball”.
1965 “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever”, “Half a Sixpence”, Charley Girl”, London, “Man of LaMancha”.
1966 “It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane…It’s superman”, “Sweet Charity’, “ Cabaret”, “I Do! I Do!”, “Mame”.
1967 “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown”, off Broadway, “How Now, Dow Jones”, “Hair”, off Broadway, “Thoroughly Modern Millie.”
1968 “The Happy Time”, “People Is The Thing That The world Is Fullest Of”-off Broadway.
1969 “Oh Calcutta”, off-Broadway –Revue, “Promises, Promises”, London.

1970 “Last sweet days of Isaac”, “The Me Nobody Knows,” “Purlie”, “Applause,” “Rothschilds”,
1971 “Meeow”, “Godspell”, “Jesus Christ Superstar”, “ “Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death”, “Two Gentlemen of Verona”.
1972 “Grease”, “Man of La Mancha”, “The sunshine Train”.
1973 “A Little Night Music”, “The Rocky Horror Show”, London. “National Lampoo’s Lemmings, Revue.
1974 “Liza Minnelli”, concert, “Lorelei”, “Sammy Davis on Broadway” concert, “Over Her”, “ Fashion”
1975 “The Wiz”, “Shenandoah”, “ A Chorus Line”, “Rocky Horror Picture Show”, Me & Bessie”.
1976 “Shirley Maclaine”, revue, “ Debbie Reynolds Show” revue, “You’re Arms Too Short to Box with God”.
1977 “Side By side By Sondheim” revue, “Beatlemania”, concert.
1978 “I’m Getting My Act Together”, “Timbuktu”, “Evita”, London, “On The 20th Century” “Best Little Whorehouse In Texas”.
1979 “They’re Playing Our song”, “I Remember Mama”, “Tommy”, London, “Sugar Babies”, revue, “Sweeney Todd”.

1980 “Grease” closes its run of 3,388 performances. “A Day in A Night in The Ukraine”, “Really Rosie”, off Broadway, “42nd Street”

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Art Carney

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Art Carney

In “LOVERS”

“Praised by all the critics!” -N.Y. TIMES” The NATIONAL THEATRE Washington, D.C. June 16 – June 28, 1969 Evenings at 7:30 matinees Wed. & Sat. at 2:00 Mon. thru Sat. Evenings Orch. $7.50; 1st Balc. 7.50, 6.50, 5.50; Upper Balc. $3.00 Wed. and Sat. Matinees Orch. $5.50, 4.50, 3.00; Upper Balc.$1.95

ART CARNEY IN LOVERS

A rare theatrical experience is in store for audiences everywhere with the appearance of Art Carney, the only entertainer in the world who ever climbed out of a sewer to stardom, as the star of “LOVERS.” Now making his first National Tour, he is giving theatergoers a long over-due opportunity to see the irrepressible “Ed Norton” IN PERSON. When everyone’s (and Jackie Gleason’s) favorite sewer worker let loose on the Broadway stage this past summer his “COMEDY TIMING AND INVENTIVENESS THAT HAS MADE HIM A HOUSEHOLD WORD” (CBS-radio), he drew forth such critical accolades as “BRILLIANT AND IMMORTAL” from syndicated columnist Earl Wilson and “THE PUREST STAGE ARTISTRY” from fellow-columnist Jack) O’Brian who regarded his performance as Andy as “THE FINEST ROLE OF HIS AMAZINGLY BROAD RANGE OF PERFORMING TALENTS.” In Brian Friel’s two-pronged probe of the human in life, Carney has been called “SUPERB” by Life Magazine, the New Yorker, the New York Daily News, ABC-TV,

Newhouse publications, etc., all summed up by the United Press with “HE HAS NEVER BEEN BETTER.” When Art Carney, the winner of five consecutive Emmys, deserts the TV tube to return to the intimacy of good theatre as he did in “The Rope Dancers,” “Take Her, She’s Mine” and Neil Simon’s “The Odd Couple,”” it is indeed, as Judith Crist said on the Today Show “A PERFECT EVENING OF THEATRE.”

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Michael Burke was general manager of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, so he already knew something about putting on a show, when the Columbia Broadcasting system lured him away in 1956. Placed in charge of what became known as new business development, Burke soon told Chairman William S. Paley that CBS should invest in a new Broadway musical called My Fair Lady. A programming genius who built CBS into the dominant player in a new medium, Paley went for it and was rewarded with a smash hit. My Fair Lady’s 2,017 performances broke the record for the longest run for a major musical theater production, and CBS profited. Burke later was responsible for the purchase of the New York Yankees by CBS, and served as president of the Yankees from September 1966 to 1973 when the George Steinbrenner era began. Spring training was a month away for the 1968 edition of Burke’s Yankees destined to finish in fifth place, twenty games behind the Detroit Tigers and thirty-one game winner Denny McLain and Mickey Mantle, by then a first baseman, was approaching the final season of his career, when Burke watched Howard Cosell’s Grambling documentary on New York City’s ABC affiliate that January. Promoter that he was, Burke envisioned another marquee production. He wanted the historic Yankee baseball dynasty and the history-making Grambling football program linked in the same headline. The way to do that was to have Grambling play in Yankee Stadium, which in its 45-year history had hosted a long list of historic college football games, boxing matches and other sporting events besides Yankee baseball games. Two of the most famous were the Notre Dame-Army football game in 1928, known for Knute Rockne’s “Win One For The Gipper” halftime speech, and the Joe Louis-Max Schmeling rematch that Eddie had followed so intently on radio in 1938.

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HELLO DOLLY! PEARL BAILEY 1968 Tony Awards

Irving Berlin worked as a singing waiter.

Irving Berlin went on to compose more than one thousand songs, including ?Alexander/s Rag Time Band,” “Easter Parade,” “Cheek to Cheek,” “There’s No Business Like Show Business”, and “Anything You Can Do.” He wrote the Broadway musicals Annie Get Your Gun and This Is the Army, received the Congressional Gold Medal for his song “God Bless America” and won an Academy Award for his song “White Christmas.”

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Broadway Musical Chronology
The 1950s
Compiled by John Kenrick

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All dates are for Broadway openings unless otherwise noted.
KEY

Show Title (Genre/City), Opening Date, Theatre, Number of Performances
1950

Happy As Harry, 1/6/1950, Coronet, 3
Alive and Kicking (Revue), 1/17/1950, Winter Garden, 46
Dance Me a Song (Revue), 1/20/1950, Royale, 35
Arms and the Girl, 2/2/1950, 46th St., 134
Consul, The (Opera), 3/15/1950, Ethel Barrymore, 269
Great To Be Alive!, 3/23/1950, Winter Garden, 52
Katherine Dunham (Revue), 4/19/1950, Broadway, 37
Peter Pan (Jean Arthur), 4/24/1950, Imperial, 321
Tickets, Please! (Revue), 4/27/1950, Coronet, 245
Brigadoon, 5/2/1950, New York City Center, 24
Liar, 5/18/1950, Broadhurst, 12
Carousel (London), 6/7/1950, Drury Lane, 566
Michael Todd’s Peep Show (Revue), 6/28/1950, Winter Garden, 278
Ace of Clubs (London), 7/7/1950, Cambridge, 211
Telephone, The/The Medium (R), 7/19/1950, Edison Hotel Arena, 110
Pardon Our French (Revue), 10/5/1950, Broadway, 100
Call Me Madam, 10/12/1950, Imperial, 644
Barrier, 11/2/1950, Broadhurst, 4
Guys and Dolls, 11/24/1950, 46th St., 1194*
Let’s Make an Opera, 12/13/1950, Golden, 5
Bless You All (Revue), 12/14/1950, Mark Hellinger, 84
Colorado (Paris), 12/16/1950, Gaite-Lyric, 11 months
Pour Don Carlos (Paris), 12/17/1950, Chatelet, 420
Out of This World, 12/21/1950, New Century, 157

1951

Where’s Charley? (Return), 1/29/1951, Broadway, 48
Mikado, The (R), 1/29/1951, St. James, 8
Trial by Jury/HMS Pinafore, 2/5/1951, St. James, 8
Jotham Valley, 2/6/1951, 48th Street, 31
Gondoliers (R), 2/12/1951, St. James, 4
Iolanthe (R), 2/15/1951, St. James, 4
Gay’s the Word (London), 2/16/1951, Saville, 502
Razzle Dazzle (Revue), 2/19/1951, Hotel Edison Arena, 8
Cox and Box/The Pirates of Penzance (R), 2/19/1951, St James, 8
King and I, The, 3/29/1951, St. James, 1246*
Make a Wish, 4/18/1951, Winter Garden, 102
Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A, 4/19/1951, Alvin, 267
Flahooley, 5/14/1951, Broadhurst, 40
Oklahoma! (R), 5/29/1951, Broadway, 72
Courtin’ Time, 6/14/1951, National, 37
Seventeen, 6/21/1951, Broadhurst, 180
Two on the Aisle (Revue), 7/19/1951, Mark Hellinger, 276
Bagels and Yox (Revue), 9/12/1951, Holiday, 204
Borscht Capades (Revue), 9/17/1951, Royale, 90
Jose Greco (Revue), 10/1/1951, Shubert, 65
Music in the Air (R), 10/8/1951, Ziegfeld, 56
Zip Goes a Million (London), 10/20/1951, Palace, 544
And So To Bed (London), 10/12/1951, New Theatre, 323
Top Banana, 11/1/1951, Winter Garden, 350
Paint Your Wagon, 11/12/1951, Shubert, 289
Le Chanteur De Mexico (Paris), 12/15/1951, Chatelet, 905
976

Home Sweet Homer, 1/4/1976, Palace, 1
Pacific Overtures, 1/11/1976, Winter Garden, 193
Rockabye Hamlet, 2/17/1976, Minskoff, 7 perfs + 21 pvws
Bubbling Brown Sugar (Revue), 3/2/1976, ANTA, 766
Very Good Eddie (London-R), 3/23/1976, Piccadilly, 411
My Fair Lady (R), 3/25/1976, St. James, 384
Shirley MacLaine (Revue), 4/19/1976, Palace, 20
Rex, 4/25/1976, Lunt-Fontanne, 48 perfs + 14 pvws
So Long 174th Street, 4/27/1976, Harkness, 16 perfs + 6 pvws
Threepenny Opera (R), 5/1/1976, Vivian Beaumont, 307
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, 5/4/1976, Mark Hellinger Theater, 7 perfs + 13 pvws
Something’s Afoot, 5/27/1976, Lyceum, 74
Godspell (Moved to Broadway), 6/22/1976, Broadhurst, 527
Pal Joey (R), 6/27/1976, Circle in the Square, 73 perfs + 33 pvws
Shirley MacLaine (Revue), 7/9/1976, Palace, 20
Guys & Dolls (R), 7/21/1976, Broadway, 241
Let My People Come (Revue-Moved to Bway), 7/22/1976, Morosco, 122
A Chorus Line (London), 7/22/1976, Drury Lane, 903
Debbie Reynolds Show (Revue), 9/16/1976, Minskoff, 13
Going Up (R), 9/19/1976, John Golden, 49
Oh Calcutta (Revue-R), 9/24/1976, Edison, 5959
Porgy & Bess (R), 9/25/1976, Uris, 129
Lovesong (Revue), 10/5/1976, Top of the Gate, 23
The Robber Bridegroom (Moved to Broadway), 10/9/1976, Biltmore, 157
The Club, 10/14/1976, Circle in the Square Downtown, 667
Two by Five (Revue), 10/18/1976, Village Gate Downstairs, 57
Music Is, 12/20/1976, St. James, 8 perfs + 14 pvws
You’re Arms Too Short to Box With God, 12/22/1976, Lyceum, 434
Fiddler on the Roof (R), 12/28/1976, Winter Garden, 168

1977

Nightclub Cantata (Revue), 1/9/1977, Top of the Gate, 145
Ipi-Tombi, 1/12/1977, Harkness, 39 perfs + 17 pvws
A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine (London), 1/15/1979, New End, 168
Elvis: The Legend Lives (Revue), 1/31/1977, Palace, 101
Party With Betty Comden & Adolph Green, A (Revue-R), 2/10/1977, Morosco, 96
Starting Here, Starting Now (Revue), 3/7/1977, Barbarann, 120
Happy End, 3/8/1977, Chelsea Theatre Center, 56
She Loves Me (R), 3/29/1977, Town Hall, 24
I Love My Wife, 4/17/1977, Ethel Barrymore, 872
Side By Side By Sondheim (Revue), 4/18/1977, Music Box, 390
Knickerbocker Holiday (R), 4/19/1977, Town Hall, 16
Annie*, 4/21/1977, Alvin, 2377
The King & I (R), 5/2/1977, Uris, 807
Happy End (Moved to Broadway), 5/7/1977, Martin Beck, 75
Toller Cranston’s Ice Show (Revue), 5/19/1977, Palace, 62
Beatlemania (Concert), 6/1/1977, Winter Garden, 1011 (See NOTE Below)
Unsung Cole (Revue), 6/23/1977, Circle Rep, 78
Man of La Mancha (R), 9/15/1977, Palace, 127
Comedy With Music (Revue-R), 10/3/1977, Imperial, 67
Hair (R), 10/5/1977, Biltmore, 43 perfs + 79 pvws
I Love My Wife (London), 10/6/1977, Prince of Wales, 410
Best Little Whorehouse In Texas (Showcase), 10/20/77, Actors Studio, 12
The Act, 10/29/1977, Majestic, 239
Jesus Christ Superstar (R), 11/23/1977, Longacre, 96

1977 NOTE: In a vain attempt to avoid facing the critics, Beatlemania never officially opened. The critics eventually snuck in anyway. Despite poor reviews, this tribute to the Beatles ran for several years.

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