Allegro
Shows · Allegro
Allegro is a musical by Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II, their third collaboration for the stage. Opening on Broadway on October 10, 1947, the musical centers on the life of Joseph Taylor Jr., who follows in the footsteps of his father as a doctor, but is tempted by fortune and fame at a big-city hospital.
- Opened
- 1947
- Performances
- 315
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Golden Age
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1947 | Majestic Theatre Original. October 10, 1947 · Agnes de Mille (Oscar Hammerstein II uncredited) | 315 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 3 albums held
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals R&H Theatricals | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals R&H Theatricals | available |
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52 passages naming Allegro, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
The musical was no ground-breaker and clearly not in the class of their earlier works; it didn’t even attempt the depth and scope of the team’s ambitious but flawed Allegro and Me and Juliet; book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p738
It ran for 315 per-formances. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p270
The first three productions Fiorellol, Allegro, and the previously never revived Lady In The Dark—were excitingly presented with striking staging and performances by leading musical comedy stars. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p320
With Allegro, the team attempted to break more musical-theater conventions. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p464
The show, although not as well regarded as Rodgers and Hammerstein’s greatest hits, was better received than Allegro, Pipe Dream, or Me and Juliet. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p466
Agnes de Mille continued working with other major talents, spanning the globe and history with her versatile work for such shows as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Out of This World, and Paint Your Wagon. With classic dances like “Laurey Makes Up Her Mind” from Oklahoma!, “Forty Minutes for Lunch” from One Touch of Venus, th… book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p62
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