Shows · Breakfast At Tiffany’s
Breakfast At Tiffany’s
Opened 1966
Musical, Revolution
Holly Golightly, a free-spirited young woman in 1940s New York, lives a glamorous but rootless existence, surviving on the generosity of wealthy admirers while nursing a dream of finding a place where she truly belongs. Her new neighbor, a struggling writer, falls under her spell as Holly navigates the city’s high society, visits a convicted mobster in prison, and searches for love while running from her past as a small-town girl named Lula Mae Barnes.
- Music
- Bob Merrill
- Lyrics
- Bob Merrill
- Book
- Abe Burrows
Productions2 on Broadway
Breakfast at Tiffany's is a musical with music and lyrics by Bob Merrill and a book originally by Abe Burrows but rewritten during pre-Broadway tryouts by Edward Albee. It is based on the 1958 Truman Capote novella and 1961 film of the same name about a free spirit named Holly Golightly. After tryouts in Philadelphia and Boston, and only four previews on Broadway in 1966, the show was closed by producer David Merrick at a total financial loss. Its only revival was a staged concert in 2013 at a 200-seat venue in London. A studio recording was released in 2001. The musical is one of the most notorious fiascos in Broadway history. William Goldman called it a "legendary production" meaning "a ce…
Truman Capote told Women’s Wear Daily, "I don’t like the score--or the leading lady. They followed the book more closely than the movie--maybe they would have been better off patterning after the film...."
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