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Ambassador

Opened 1972

9 performances

Musical, Revolution

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Based on Henry James' novel The Ambassadors, the musical follows Lambert Strether, a rigid Massachusetts man sent to Paris by his fiancée to retrieve her wayward son Chad from the clutches of a Frenchwoman. In Paris, Lambert is transformed, acting on impulse for the first time in his life and enjoying the company of the middle-aged Marie de Vionnet.

Music
Don Gohman
Lyrics
Hal Hackady
Book
Don Ettlinger & Anna Marie Barlow

Productions1 on Broadway

1972
Lunt-Fontanne TheatreBroadway Original, opened November 19, 1972, directed by Stone Widney
9 performances

Recordings 1 recording

Ambassador is a musical with a book by Don Ettlinger and Anna Marie Barlow, lyrics by Hal Hackady, and music by Don Gohman. It is based on the 1903 Henry James novel The Ambassadors.

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