High Button Shoes
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High Button Shoes is a 1947 musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Sammy Cahn and book by George Abbott and Stephen Longstreet. It was based on the semi-autobiographical 1946 novel The Sisters Liked Them Handsome by Stephen Longstreet.
- Opened
- 1947
- Performances
- 727
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Golden Age
Productions2 on Broadway
| 1947 | New Century Theatre Original. October 9, 1947 · George Abbott | 727 performances |
| 1948 | Transfer Theatre unknown. December 22, 1948 |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 1 album held
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
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'Everything's Coming Up Roses' was a revised version of 'Betwixt and Between' (lyric by Sammy Cahn) which Styne and Cahn had written for their 1947 Broadway musical High Button Shoes. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p800
High Button Shoes (10/ 9/47; 727 performances), again introduced a new composer and lyricist to Broadway. JuLE StyNE and Sammy Cahn provided the songs for the Phil Silvers and Nanette Fabray show. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p26
The team had much better luck with their next attempt, High Button Shoes (10/9/47; 727 performances). This time they got their man, Phil Silvers, and he and Nanette Fabray opened the show at the Century Theater. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p538
After several flops, Fabray achieved great attention replacing Celeste Holm soon after the opening of Bloomer Girl, and became a star (at the ripe old age of twenty-five) as the leading lady of High Button Shoes, singing the standard of the show, “Papa, Won’t You Dance With Me?” book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p57
This was Fosse’s major choreographic set piece, his version of Jerome Robbins’s “Keystone Kop Bailet” from High Button Shoes, complete with a game of musical chairs, multiple entrances, exits, and an absurdist gorilla. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p83
Rising to the top of the ballet world with Fancy Free (1944), he was pivotal in turning the piece about three gobs on a twenty-four hour leave into the first rate musical comedy On the Town. Major hits followed, including 1947’s High Button Shoes (where his Mack Sennett-inspired bathing beauty ballet became an instant… book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p172
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