Make Mine Manhattan
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Partly because of the increasing importance of books in book musicals and partly because of the increasing influence of television, 1948 was the last year in which traditional revues found large and receptive audiences. Adhering to its titular request, Make Mine Manhattan took a mostly satirical but always lighthearted look at the city’s most prominent borough as it covered such matters as the forthcoming establishme…
- Opened
- 1948
- Performances
- 429
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Golden Age
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1948 | Broadhurst Theatre Original. January 15, 1948 · Hassard Short, Max Liebman | 429 performances |
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Recordings 1 album held
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7 passages naming Make Mine Manhattan, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Bond, Sheila Make Mine Manhattan, 137 book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p353
As “Noises in the Street,” “Street Noises” (lyric by David Gregory, Arnold B. Horwitt, and Peter Barry, music by Richard Lewine) found its way into the 1948 revue Make Mine Manhattan book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p494
“Make Mine Manhattan” was one of the musicals mentioned in the list. book:a-pictorial-history-of-the-american-theatre-1860-1985-blum#p321
Caesar, who had not done a Broadway show since Make Mine Manhattan in 1948 (the same show in which Fosse and Niles had toured), had spent his television years improvising within a story framework and now feared he would be unable to harness his volcanic comic instincts and stay within the parameters of the script—imper… book:big-deal-bob-fosse-and-dance-in-the-american-musical-kevin-winkler-oxford-univer#p119
Nesbitt thought Make Mine Manhattan would reach Britain. It didn’t. book:west-end-broadway-the-golden-age-of-the-american-musical-in-london-adrian-wright#p74
She appeared in nightclubs as a dance team partner with then husband Bob Fosse, before making her Broadway debut in 1945 in Girl from Nantucket, followed by Dance Me a Song, Call Me Mister, Make Mine Manhattan, La Plum de Ma Tante, Carnival, Flora the Red Menace, Sweet Charity, George M, No No Nannette, Irene, Ballroom… book:theatre-world-1987-88-season-v-44-willis#p231
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