Panama Hattie
Shows · Panama Hattie
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.
- Opened
- 1940
- Performances
- 501
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Early
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1940 | 46th Street Theatre Original. October 30, 1940 · Edgar MacGregor | 501 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 1 album held
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
Read from the licensor's own pages and catalogues. Rights move, and an empty row means we have not confirmed a publisher, not that the show cannot be licensed.
39 passages naming Panama Hattie, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Panama Hattie was the last of the three-in-a-row hits produced by B.G. DeSylva. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p115
Alton, Robert Anything Goes By Jupiter DuBarry Was a Lady Hooray for What! Leave It to Me! Life Begins at 8:40 Me and Juliet Panama Hattie Show Is On, The Too Many Girls Ziegfeld Follies book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p387
Bremer, Lucille Panama Hattie, 111 book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p353
The situation was somewhat similar to Herbert Fields and Buddy G. DeSylva’s book for Cole Porter’s 1940 musical Panama Hattie, in which the title character is romantically involved with a divorced man and has to win over his reluctant daughter. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p373
Herbert, Porter, De Sylva, and Merman were reteamed for Panama Hattie (10/30/40; 501 performances), a formula musical that nevertheless gave Merman an attractive vehicle. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p189
De Sylva convinced Merman and Porter to reteam for Panama Hattie (10/30/40; 501 performances), her first solo starring role. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p369
Something wrong here? Correct a field or report the problem. Every change is recorded in public under the contributor licence.