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Jumbo

Opened 1935

233 performances

Musical, Early

Jimmy Durante, who was in the 1935 production. Harry Warnecke

Plotted by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur to give plenty of opportunity for the specialty acts recruited from all over the world, the book had to do with a debt-ridden circus and what the well-meaning but inept publicity man Claudius B. Bowers (Jimmy Durante) does to help save the day.

Music: Richard Rodgers
Lyrics: Lorenz Hart
Book: Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur

Productions1 on Broadway

1935

HippodromeBroadway Original, opened November 16, 1935, directed by John Murray Anderson, George Abbott

233 performances

Songs5 songs

Over and Over Again, The Circus Is on Parade, The Most Beautiful Girl in the World, My Romance, Little Girl Blue

Recordings 1 recording

2001

Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962 film cast) Released July 10, 2001

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