All American
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All American is a musical with a book by Mel Brooks, lyrics by Lee Adams, and music by Charles Strouse. Based on the Robert Lewis Taylor 1950 novel Professor Fodorski, it is set on the campus of the fictional Southern Baptist Institute of Technology: the worlds of science and sports collide when the principles of engineering are applied to football strategies, and football strategies are used to teach the principles…
- Opened
- 1962
- Performances
- 80
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Golden Age
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1962 | Winter Garden Original. March 19, 1962 · Joshua Logan | 80 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 2 albums held
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26 passages naming All American, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Danny Daniels, Eileen Herlie, and Ray Bolger in rehearsal for All American, 1962. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p529
They followed up their Birdie smash with another satirical show, All American, where one song, the lovely “Once Upon a Time,” became a semistandard. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p49
She went right into All American, making bunny slippers seem like high fashion in her showstopper “Nightlife,” book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p57
whose past included two musical comedy nightmares—Shinbone Alley (1957) and All American (1962)—and whose future included the 1968 film The Producers. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p532
Irving Berlin's Mr. President (1960); All American (1962); Mame (1966), not dismal but from which he was bounced long before rehearsals began; the Picnic-musicalization Hot September (which opened and closed in Boston in hot September 1965); Look to the Lilies; book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p566
Funny thing, though, Logan’s most recent musicals had been Mr. President (1960) and All American (1962), and his future held even worse. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p602
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