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Free For All

Opened 1931

15 performances

Musical, Early

Jack Haley, who was in the 1931 production. JGKlein

An idealistic young American inherits a factory and decides to run it as a utopian enterprise, sharing profits equally among the workers. His progressive ideas create romantic complications and political turmoil as established interests try to undermine his experiment in industrial democracy.

Music: Richard A. Whiting
Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II
Book: Oscar Hammerstein II, Laurence Schwab

Productions1 on Broadway

1931

Manhattan TheatreBroadway Original, opened September 8, 1931, directed by Oscar Hammerstein II

15 performances

Recordings 1 recording

2022

Fall Guys Free for All (Original Game Soundtrack) [no label], released June 27, 2022

Afghanistan

"very thin, Irish-looking kid": Kenneth Turan, Free for All: Joe Papp, the Public, and the Greatest Theater Story Ever Told (New York: Doubleday, 2009), 28.

Fosse Sam Wasson, p. 569

“I thought plays were effete”: Kenneth Turan, Free for All, 27.

Fosse Sam Wasson, p. 570

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