Irma La Douce
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Irma la douce is a 1956 French musical with music by Marguerite Monnot and lyrics and book by Alexandre Breffort. The musical premiered in Paris in 1956, and was subsequently produced in the West End in 1958 and on Broadway, by David Merrick, in 1960.
- Opened
- 1960
- Performances
- 524
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Golden Age
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1960 | Plymouth Theatre Original. September 29, 1960 · Peter Brook | 524 performances |
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 Concord Theatricals | available |
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38 passages naming Irma La Douce, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Prior to this production, the most successful musical of French origin (which also crossed the Atlantic via London) had been Irma la Douce. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p268
The Plymouth greeted the 1960s with a smash musical, Irma La Douce (i960), that came by way of France and England. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p133
The 1960s brought Frank Loesser's unsuccessful musical Greemvillow (i960), starring Anthony Perkins, Ellen McCown, Pert Kelton, and Cecil Kellaway; the Ballets Africains and West Side Story, from the Winter Garden (i960): Lucille Ball in a moderately entertaining musical (and Cy Coleman's Broadway debut), Wildcat (1961… book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p291
Irma La Douce, 115, 116, 273 book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p366
Fred Gwyunne, Elizabeth Seal, and George S. Irving in producer David Merrick’s 1960 production, Irma La Douce. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p436
Irma La Douce, 349, 352, 413 book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p651
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