Chee-Chee
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Chee-Chee is a musical by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart based on the 1927 book, The Son of the Grand Eunuch, by Charles Pettit. Chee-Chee opened on Broadway September 25, 1928, and the show closed after 31 performances.
- Opened
- 1928
- Performances
- 31
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Early
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1928 | Mansfield Theatre Original. September 25, 1928 · Alexander Leftwich | 31 performances |
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14 passages naming Chee-Chee, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Also included were “Are You My Love?” (from Rodgers and Hart’s 1936 film musical Dancing Pirate ) and “I Still Believe in You” (from the team’s 1930 musical Simple Simon ; with a different lyric, the song had also been heard as “Singing a Love Song” in the team’s 1928 musical Chee-Chee ). book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p225
Fields opened his new theater on October 26, 1928, with Rodgers and Hart’s Present Arms (10/26/28; 147 performances), and followed it with the same team’s Chee-Chee (9/25/28; 32 performances). book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p109
Chee-Chee (9/25/28; 32 performances) was a downright failure for Rodgers, Hart, and the two Fieldses. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p189
Chee-Chee provided their first opportunity “to put our theories of close unity of song and story into practice.” Chee-Chee received an all-time Rodgers and Hart low of thirty-one performances in 1928. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p122
In the 1936 On Your Toes Rodgers and Hart attempted an integration of music and drama that went beyond their successful innovations in Peggy-Ann and their unsuccessful ones in Chee-Chee. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p124
Rodgers explains his ideas about dramatic unity in Chee-Chee (1928) in his autobiography, Musical Stages, 118 (see also chapter 5, p. 85). book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p654
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