Shows · Jotham Valley
Moral Re-Armament produced a number of plays and musicals, including two musicals that followed Jotham Valley. The Vanishing Island, with book, lyrics, and music by Peter Howard and Cecil Broadhurst, gave free performances at the London Hippodrome beginning on May 28, 1955. A flyer for the London premiere indicated the “musical play” had previously been performed 230 times on four continents; a 1956 production of the…
- Opened
- 1951
- Performances
- 31
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Golden Age
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1951 | 48th Street Theatre Original. February 6, 1951 · Howard Reynolds in association with Lena Ashwell, OBE | 31 performances |
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5 passages naming Jotham Valley, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
And six book musicals weren’t for the record: it appears that Happy as Larry, The Liar, Jotham Valley, Hit the Trail, Portofino, and Happy Town went commercially unrecorded. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p5
The musical is generally ignored in Broadway reference books, perhaps because it was perceived as a privately financed musical by amateurs that had the air of a vanity production about it. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p125
The six book musicals for which it appears no songs have been commercially recorded are: Happy as Larry, The Liar, Jotham Valley, Hit the Trail, Portofino, and Happy Town. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p875
six book musicals weren’t for the record: it appears that Happy as Larry, The Liar, Jotham Valley, Hit the Trail, Portofino, and Happy Town went commercially unrecorded. book:the-complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-hardcover-2014-rowman-lit#p5
The musical is distinguished for having one of the most collectible of Broadway programs (Playbill-sized programs, which seem to have been printed by Playbill magazine, were given to the audience). The rare program is distinguished as the first to use an all-color artwork cover. book:the-complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-hardcover-2014-rowman-lit#p127
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