High Society

Productions2 on Broadway

1987	Victoria Palace Theatre Transfer. · predates this show
1998	St. James Theatre Original. April 27, 1998 · Christopher Renshaw	144 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 12 albums held

Licensing 2 entries

US	Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark	available
UK	Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark	available

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28 passages naming High Society, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.

The next tenant at the St. James seemed promising, but it proved a disappointment. It was a musical version of Philip Barry's classic high comedy, The Philadelphia Story, using Cole Porter songs from the film musical version of this property called High Society, the latter title being retained for this stage adaptation… book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p283

Porter wrote two scores for the movies, High Society and Les Girls, as well as an original television musical, Aladdin. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p439

One of the ailing Porter’s final projects was a poor 1956 film-musical-ization of Barry’s The Philadelphia Story, redubbed High Society. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p429

Porter’s final Broadway show was this painfully assembled, unsatis-fying effort. Facing severe out-of-town troubles, librettist/director Kaufman and wife MacGrath were replaced by Burrows, who had been on GUYS AND DOLLS [Loesser: November 24, 1950] and CAN-CAN [May 7, 1953]. Feuer himself took over as director (as he w… book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p259

the score of the 1998 Broadway production of High Society. book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p106

Much of the film’s dance direction was by Charles Walters, who was prominently featured in the Broadway production (with Betty Grable, Walters had introduced “Well, Did You Evah!,” and he later directed Porter’s 1956 MGM film musical High Society, which interpolated the song into the score, where it was sung by Bing Cr… book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p623