Paris

Productions3 on Broadway

1869	Waverley Theatre Original. April 28, 1869 · predates this show	12 performances
1870	Woods Museum And Metropolitan Revival. November 14, 1870 · James Barnes · predates this show	49 performances
1928	Music Box Theatre Revival. October 8, 1928 · W.H. Gilmore	195 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 2 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.

Recordings 1 album held

Licensing not confirmed

Rights

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41 passages naming Paris, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.

The action takes place in and around Paris in 1906. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p622

The smash hit from the show was “April in Paris.” book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p496

while Ben Franklin in Paris was a personal triumph, it was only a modest success. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p223

Although his first success, Paris, would not arrive for another twelve years, Porte book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p70

When the following year Rodgers and Hart were preoccupied with A Connecticut Yankee, Porter was easily persuaded to leave Europe and bring Paris to New York. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p71

“Let’s Misbehave” (Reno/Sir Evelyn) (written for Paris but replaced before the New York opening by “Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall in Love”) book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p585