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I Married an Angel

Opened 1938

338 performances

Musical, Early

File:I Married an Angel poster.jpg
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

“Musical comedy has met its masters, and they have reared back and passed a 44th Street miracle,” wrote Brooks Atkinson in the Times following the opening of I Married an Angel. That miracle had to do not only with the pleasures of the entertainment but also with the audience’s total acceptance that the disillusioned

Music
Richard Rodgers
Lyrics
Lorenz Hart
Book
Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart

Productions1 on Broadway

1938
Shubert TheatreBroadway Original, opened May 11, 1938, directed by Joshua Logan
338 performances

Songs7 songs

Did You Ever Get Stung?, I Married an Angel, I’ll Tell the Man in the Street, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Spring Is Here, A Twinkle in Your Eye, At the Roxy Music Hall

Licensing 2 entries

US Concord Theatricals R&H Theatricals available
UK Concord Theatricals R&H Theatricals available

I Married an Angel’s Second Couple (Walter Slezak, Vivienne Segal, above) is truly offbeat, as soigne cutups of Budapest. They’re old flames reunited. SLEZAK: You’ve been waiting for me for fifteen years? . . . Didn’t you get married? SEGAL: A little. Only four times.

Anything Goes A History of American Musical Theatre Ethan Mordden, p. 479

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