Little Me
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Little Me is a musical written by Neil Simon, with music by Cy Coleman and lyrics by Carolyn Leigh. The original 1962 Broadway production featured Sid Caesar in multiple roles with multiple stage accents, playing all of the heroine's husbands and lovers.
- Opened
- 1962
- Performances
- 257
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Golden Age
Productions4 on Broadway
| 1962 | Lunt-Fontanne Theatre Original. November 17, 1962 · Cy Feuer & Bob Fosse | 257 performances |
| 1964 | Transfer Theatre unknown. | |
| 1982 | Eugene Oneill Theatre Revival. January 21, 1982 · Robert Drivas | 36 performances |
| 1998 | Criterion Center Stage Right Revival. November 12, 1998 · Rob Marshall | 99 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 3 albums held
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
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39 passages naming Little Me, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
In 1982, a revised version of Little Me — with James Coco, Victor Garber and Mary Gordon Murray — had a disappointingly short run on Broadway. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p194
James Coco in the revival of Little Me portrayed an actual homosexual character. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p290
The revue marked another early appearance by Swen Swenson, who in 1962 created one of musical theatre’s most memorable moments with his male strip-tease “I’ve Got Your Number” from Little Me . book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p110
Let It Ride! (George Gobel), Little Me (Sid Caesar), and 110 in the Shade (Robert Horton). book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p829
Sid Caesar in Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh's marvelous musical, Little Me (1962), which should have run longer but was hampered by a newspaper strike; book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p57
Simon's musical Little Me, starring James Coco and Victor Garber, did not succeed in 1982 and the hit musical The Best Little Whorehouse Ln Texas returned from its tour and played at this theatre for a month. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p229
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