Crazy for You
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Crazy for You is a romantic comedy musical with a book by Ken Ludwig, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and music by George Gershwin. Billed as "The New Gershwin Musical Comedy", it is largely based on the songwriting team's 1930 musical Girl Crazy, but also incorporates songs from several other productions.
- Opened
- 1992
- Performances
- 1,622
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Megamusical
Won the Tony Award for Best Musical, 1992.
Productions4 on Broadway
| 1992 | Shubert Theatre Original. February 19, 1992 · Mike Ockrent | 1,622 performances · 1 Tony wins |
| 1993 | Transfer Theatre unknown. | |
| 2011 | Novello Theatre Original. | |
| 2012 | Transfer Theatre unknown. December 13, 2012 |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 5 albums held
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
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43 passages naming Crazy for You, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Crazy For You, a revised version of the 1930 Gershwin musical Girl Crazy, with interpolated songs from many of the George and Ira Gershwin Broadway and film musicals. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p106
The splendor of the Ziegfeld era has returned of late, with the statuesque gaiety of Crazy For You. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p73
Crazy for You (G. and I. Gershwin and Ludwig), xiii, 13 book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p512
The show was reworked in 1992 as Crazy for You. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p166
Some of the songs were featured in Crazy for You (1992). book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p348
Subsequent Wagnerian musicals include Merlin (1983), Song and Dance (1985), Chess (1988), City of Angels (1989), Crazy for You (1992) book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p1111
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