Bloomer Girl
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Bloomer Girl is a 1944 Broadway musical with music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by E.Y. Harburg, and a book by Sig Herzig and Fred Saidy, based on an unpublished play by writer Daniel Lewis James and his wife Lilith.
- Opened
- 1944
- Performances
- 654
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Golden Age
Productions2 on Broadway
| 1944 | Shubert Theatre Original. October 5, 1944 · E. Y. Harburg, William Schorr | 654 performances |
| 1947 | City Center Revival. January 6, 1947 · William Schorr | 48 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 2 albums held
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
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38 passages naming Bloomer Girl, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Joan McCracken had created roles in the original productions of Oklahoma! (1943) and Bloomer Girl (1944). book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p22
The musicals of the post-Oklahoma! era seemed overly populated with these hoyden Jejune Allyson types (Daisy in Bloomer Girl, Hildy in On the Town, Carrie in Carousel, Lois in Kiss Me, Kate, Cissy in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Lola in Seventeen, and Hilda in Plain and Fancy). book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p57
Two years later Broadway was awash in period musicals of the Americana variety, including Bloomer Girl (1944) and Carousel (1945), which, like Oklahoma! , were choreographed by Agnes de Mille. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p165
During the tryout of The Girl in Pink Tights, David Brooks was replaced by David Atkinson. The two are sometimes (understandably) confused, even among theatre buffs. Brooks created leading roles in Bloomer Girl (1944) and Brigadoon (1947), and introduced the standard “Almost Like Being in Love” in the latter. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p369
Harburg explored both race relations and women’s rights with the show Bloomer Girl (10/5/44; 657 performances). The brilliant musical opened with Celeste Holm, David Brooks, Joan McCracken, and Dooley Wilson singing such Arlen and Harburg hits as “Right as the Rain,” “The Eagle and Me,” “T’morra’ T’morra’,” and “Evelin… book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p241
In addition to the delightful simplicity of his lyrics for the movie The Wizard of Oz, he contributed the unmistakably Harburgian words to the songs of Bloomer Girl, Finian’s Rainbow, Jamaica, and the underrated, cult shows Flahooley, The Happiest Girl in the World, and Darling of the Day. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p41
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