Shows · Courtin’ Time
Courtin’ Time centered around Maine widower Samuel Rilling (Joe E. Brown), who asks Araminta (Billie Worth), his housekeeper of ten years, for help in finding a new wife. His eye is on three candidates: Louisa Windeatt (Katherine Anderson), Theresa Tapper (Carmen Mathews), and Harriet Hearn (Effie Afton). For various reasons, all three turn him down, but not all is lost. For slowly but surely Samuel comes to realize…
- Opened
- 1951
- Performances
- 37
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Golden Age
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1951 | National Theatre Original. June 13, 1951 · Alfred Drake | 37 performances |
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11 passages naming Courtin’ Time, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
But like so many gifted performers of the era (Janet Collins in Out of This World, Billie Worth in Courtin’ Time, and Elaine Malbin in My Darlin’ Aida), Betty Paul never again appeared in a Broadway musical. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p304
appeared in various straight plays before her first kamikaze musical appearance, in 1951’s Courtin’ Time, which somehow managed to play two different Broadway houses but rack up only 37 performances. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p121
Peter Conlow (Courtin’ Time) book:theatre-world-2009-2010-season-v-66-willis#p421
Cohen would go on to produce an uninterrupted series of flop book musicals, including Courtin’ Time, A Time for Singing, Dear World, Prettybelle, and I Remember Mama. book:not-since-carrie-forty-years-of-broadway-musical-flops-ken-mandelbaum#p71
Lawrence had already cowritten the score for the unsuccessful Courtin’ Time, and Freeman would later coauthor the score for the flop Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen. book:not-since-carrie-forty-years-of-broadway-musical-flops-ken-mandelbaum#p86
One of Broadway’s finest orchestrators, Don Walker, developed Romberg’s themes and sketches and presumably contributed a fair amount of the music himself (Walker had already done the score for Courtin’ Time ). book:not-since-carrie-forty-years-of-broadway-musical-flops-ken-mandelbaum#p267
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