Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Shows · Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a musical with a book by Joseph Fields and Anita Loos, lyrics by Leo Robin, and music by Jule Styne, based on the best-selling 1925 novel of the same name by Loos. The story involves an American woman's voyage to Paris to perform in a nightclub.
- Opened
- 1949
- Performances
- 740
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Golden Age
Productions4 on Broadway
| 1926 | Times Square Theatre Original. September 28, 1926 · predates this show | 199 performances |
| 1949 | Ziegfeld Theatre Revival. December 8, 1949 · John C. Wilson | 740 performances |
| 1962 | Transfer Theatre unknown. | |
| 1995 | Lyceum Theatre Revival. April 10, 1995 · Charles Repole | 24 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 1 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 2 albums held
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
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50 passages naming Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Wilson, John C. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Kiss Me, Kate book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p387
Vernon was also his assistant for the 1953 film version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p15
Carol Channing in a revised version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, called Lorelei (1974). book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p87
Styne’s next show wasn’t as successful, but it was important as the first meeting between Styne and his longtime collaborators Comden and Green. Two on the Aisle (7/19/51; 281 performances) was Styne’s only Broadway revue and was written to fit the talents of Bert Lahr and Dolores Gray. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p538
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes has remained an especially vital property. The film musical version was released in 1953, and, in 1974, Carol Channing returned to the part in a revised version titled Lorelet. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p134
Through the 1950s and ’60s, his stock rose, as he teamed often with longtime collaborators Betty Comden and Adolph Green. Their scores for Peter Pan, Bells Are Ringing, and Do Re Mi were in perfect step with the personas of Mary Martin, Judy Holliday, and Phil Silvers, respectively. In 1964, the smash Funny Girl became… book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p153
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