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Ankles Aweigh

Opened 1955

176 performances

Musical, Golden Age

Ankles Aweigh is a musical with a book by Guy Bolton and Eddie Davis, lyrics by Dan Shapiro, and music by Sammy Fain. The plot involves Hollywood starlet Wynne, who secretly marries a Navy pilot while filming a movie in Sicily.

Music
Sammy Fain
Lyrics
Dan Shapiro
Book
Guy Bolton and Eddie Davis

Productions1 on Broadway

1955
Mark Hellinger TheatreBroadway Original, opened April 18, 1955, directed by Fred F. Finklehoffe
176 performances

Songs17 songs

Italy, Old-Fashioned Mothers, Skip the Build-Up, Nothing at All, Walk Like a Sailor, Headin’ for the Bottom Blues, Nothing Can Replace a Man, Here’s to Dear Old Us, His and Hers, La Festa, Ready Cash, Kiss Me and Kill Me with Love, Honeymoon, The Villain Always Gets It, The Code, Eleven O’clock Song, mediocrity

Recordings 1 recording

2004
Ankles Aweigh
Ankles Aweigh Decca Broadway B0002673-02, released June 29, 2004
United States

Above, Betty and Jane Kean at sea in the immortal Ankles Aweigh.

Not Since Carrie Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops Ken Mandelbaum, p. 43

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