Hellzapoppin
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Hellzapoppin is a musical revue written by the comedy team of Olsen and Johnson, consisting of John "Ole" Olsen and Harold "Chic" Johnson, with music and lyrics by Sammy Fain and Charles Tobias. The revue was a hit, running for over three years, and was at the time the longest-running Broadway musical, with 1,404 performances, making it one of only three plays to run more than 500 performances in the 1930s.
- Opened
- 1938
- Performances
- 1,404
- Type
- Revue
- Era
- Early
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1938 | 46th Street Theatre Original. September 22, 1938 · Edward Duryea Dowling | 1,404 performances |
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"Hellzapoppin’ (1938). Their rough and rowdy brand of humor went over well with audiences (if not the critics), and the revue ran for 1,404 performances (for a book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p78
The revival opted for an overly cute retelling of the basic story against an “environmental” staging that included ten performance areas scattered about the theatre as well as four different areas for the orchestra members to play. Unfortunately, the revival set the questionable Hellzapoppin’- styled standard for futur… book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p602
Late 1936 brought perhaps the Winter Garden's best revue of all time—Vincente Minnelli's The Show Is On, a tribute to show business through the ages with Bea Lillie swinging out over the audience on a huge half-moon and dropping garters on bald-headed men, Bert Lahr immortalizing "Song of the Woodman," the Gershwins pr… book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p64
Olsen and Johnson's Hellzapoppin transferred from the Winter Garden in 1941. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p270
Until Hellzapoppin, Pins and Needles was the longest-running Broadway musical. It played the Labor Stage for most of its run, leaving for the Windsor Theater in June 1939. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p447
1938 22 September: Hellzapoppin’, a revue based on old vaudeville humor, debuts at the 46th Street Theater and runs for a then-record 1,404 performances. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p21
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