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Best Foot Forward is a 1941 musical with songs by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, and a book by John Cecil Holm.Produced by George Abbott, the production opened on Broadway on October 1, 1941, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre after an out-of-town tryout, where it ran for 326 performances.
The show was the anchor of NBC's Saturday line-up, and almost always won its time slot, as ABC and CBS struggled to find shows to compete against it, the most notable being ABC's Lucille Ball sitcom Life With Lucy in the beginning of the 1986–87 season although it aired at 8:00, an hour earlier.
A soundtrack album for the special, titled Diana Ross and The Supremes and The Temptations on Broadway, was issued five days before the program aired. Though there were no singles released from this album in the US, "The Rhythm of Life" did become a Top 10 hit for the ensemble in Australia .
It was one of the first Broadway shows to feature a fully integrated cast. The original Shinbone Alley was in Manhattan. [4] With neither an out-of-town tryout nor a preview period, the Broadway production opened on April 13, 1957, at The Broadway Theatre, and closed on May 25, 1957, after 49
She choreographed both the Broadway (1957) and screen (1962) versions of The Music Man. Other Broadway shows included Take Me Along (1959), Irma La Douce (1960), I Had a Ball (1964), Half a Sixpence (1965), Mame (1966, and the ' film version in 1974), 1776 (musical) (1969 and the film version in 1972), Gigi (1973) and I Love My Wife (1977 ...
With the profits from his book, Love then embarked on a bizarre hobby: over the course of several years, he ate dinner at every restaurant listed in the Manhattan yellow pages directory, visiting them in alphabetical order. A previous adaptation of the Harper's article was aired August 3, 1956 on CBS Radio Workshop. [4]
Leap of Faith is a stage musical based on the 1992 American movie of the same name, which starred Steve Martin.The music is by Alan Menken, with lyrics by Glenn Slater and a book by Janus Cercone and Warren Leight about a con man posing as a man of faith, who is redeemed by the love of a good woman.
He subsequently persuaded producer Paul Elliott to mount the show in London. [6] After several previews, a revised version (with new lyrics by Don Black ) opened on April 17, 1997 at the Albery Theatre in the West End , and closed on June 28, 1997.