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Shows · Simply Heavenly · Playhouse Theatre, 1957

Simply Heavenly, 1957

Opened August 20, 1957

Closed October 12, 1957

62 performances

Playhouse Theatre

Original

Broadway

Simply Heavenly
Carl Van Vechten

Of the productions that opened in the 1950s, this had the 282nd longest run.

Other stagings of Simply Heavenly 1 more

1958
Adelphi TheatreBroadway

Who was in it16 named

Josephine Woods

Creative team

Director
Joshua Shelley
Producer
Vincent Carow and Abel Enklewitz
Orchestrations
David Martin

Recordings

1 recording of Simply Heavenly exist, but none was released while this run was on. See Simply Heavenly for all of them.

Around this production

But Simply Heavenly is perhaps the best black musical ever, a work of immense, unpretentious charm, extremely funny and with a great deal to say as well.

Simply Heavenly (transfer from Off Broadway; book musical) Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 868

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