I Can Get It For You Wholesale
Shows · I Can Get It For You Wholesale
I Can Get It for You Wholesale is a musical originally produced by David Merrick, with music and lyrics by Harold Rome, and book by Jerome Weidman, based on his 1937 novel of the same title. Its 1962 production marked the Broadway debut of 19-year-old Barbra Streisand, who was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.
- Opened
- 1962
- Performances
- 300
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Golden Age
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1962 | Shubert Theatre Original. March 22, 1962 · Arthur Laurents | 300 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 6 albums held
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
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32 passages naming I Can Get It For You Wholesale, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
I Can Get It for You Wholesale, 98, 149, 159-161, 172 book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p339
I Can Get It for You Wholesale, featuring the Broadway debut of Barbra Streisand, opens at the Shubert Theater. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p27
Joey Heatherton; when she tried to block the casting of Elliot Gould (of the 1962 I Can Get It For You Wholesale), though, she was told that casting was none of her business and sent packing. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p272
So why not a South African/Yiddish score? Rome was an expert on native music of both stripes, it turned out, and the understated Zw/u is actually quite entrancing when taken on its own terms. It was tied to a hopeless interracial soap opera plot, though, causing songs and show to disappear quickly. The mid-60s being an… book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p1021
"I Can Get It for You Wholesale, 239, 250, 399, 999" book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p1140
Rome was an expert on native music of both stripes, it turned out, and the understated Zułu is actually quite entrancing when taken on its own terms. It was tied to a hopeless interracial soap opera plot, though, causing songs and show to disappear quickly. The mid-’60s being an especially dry era for writers of tradit… book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-steven-suskin#p1020
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