Oh Captain!
Shows · Oh Captain!
Jay Livingston and Ray Evans’s score was one of the era’s best, a slam-bang fandango of twenty-five separate old-fashioned song numbers, a wild potpourri of comic frolics, ballads, and dances. The songs cleverly delineate the characters, propel the plot forward, and provide a flavorsome and atmospheric background to the English and French locales. Livingston and Evans created three “Life Does a Man a Favor” songs tha…
- Opened
- 1958
- Performances
- 192
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Golden Age
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1958 | Alvin Theatre Original. February 4, 1958 · Jose Ferrer | 192 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 1 album held
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
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Even such also-rans as Shinbone Alley (1957), Oh Captain! (1958), and First Impressions (1959) book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p4
r recordings of the score: The Ferrers—Rosemary Clooney and Jose Ferrer Sing Selections from the Broadway Musical Comedy “Oh Captain!” (MGM LP # E-3687); Stan Freeman and His Quartet Play “Oh Captain!” (Columbia LP # CL-1126); and Dancing with “Oh Captain!” played by the Bob Prince Quintet (Harmony HL-70970). book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p683
Tony Award Nominations : Best Musical (Oh Captain! ) book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p684
Similarly, when Dorothy Lamour succeeded Abbe Lane in Oh Captain! and Ann B. Davis replaced Carol Burnett in Once Upon a Mattress, those musicals quickly disappeared. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p828
The plot of Between the Devil brings to mind the story of the 1958 musical Oh Captain! in which a “veddy proper” Englishman (played by Tony Randall) shuttles back and forth from England to France with a proper wife at home (Jacquelyn McKeever) and a voluptuous mistress in Paree (Abbe Lane). book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p499
For his sins in the current musical, Valentine got dunked in the pool; in Hit the Trail, he got the gate from Irra Petina when she realized he was a scoundrel; and in Oh Captain! he dallied with the married Jacquelyn McKeever in the tango “We’re Not Children.” book:the-complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-hardcover-2014-rowman-lit#p276
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