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Shows · Panama Hattie

Panama Hattie

Opened 1940

501 performances

Musical, Early

Panama Hattie
Ince Publishing Company, Inc., no photographer credited

According to Ethel Merman, Hattie Maloney in Panama Hattie was an expansion of the Katie who went to Haiti in DuBarry Was a Lady. The show was the first in which Miss Merman received solo star billing and it had the longest run of the five musicals in which she was spotlighted singing the songs of Cole Porter.

Music
Cole Porter
Lyrics
Cole Porter
Book
Herbert Fields & B. G. DeSylva

Productions1 on Broadway

1940
46th Street TheatreBroadway Original, opened October 30, 1940, directed by Edgar MacGregor
501 performances

Songs6 songs

My Mother Would Love You, I’ve Still Got My Health, Fresh as a Daisy, Let’s Be Buddies, Make It Another Old-Fashioned, Please, I’m Throwing a Ball Tonight

Recordings 1 recording

1998
Blood and Sand / Panama Hattie / At War With the Army
Blood and Sand / Panama Hattie / At War With the Army Great Movie Themes CD 60047, released 1998
United Kingdom

Licensing 2 entries

US Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available
UK Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available

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