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Pipe Dream

Opened 1955

246 performances

Musical, Golden Age

Pipe Dream
Souvenir Program for Pipe Dream, here

Pipe Dream is the seventh musical by the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II; it premiered on Broadway on November 30, 1955. The work is based on John Steinbeck's novel Sweet Thursday—Steinbeck wrote the novel, a sequel to Cannery Row, in the hope of having it adapted into a musical.

Music
Richard Rodgers
Lyrics
Oscar Hammerstein II
Book
Oscar Hammerstein II

Productions1 on Broadway

1955
Shubert TheatreBroadway Original, opened November 30, 1955, directed by Harold Clurman
246 performances

Songs21 songs

All Kinds of People, The Tide Pool, Everybody’s Got a Home but Me, A Lopsided Bus, Bums’ Opera, Fauna’s Song, Babaloo, The Man I Used to Be, Sweet Thursday, Suzy Is a Good Thing, All at Once You Love Her, The Happiest House on the Block, The Party That We’re Gonna Have Tomorrow Night, The Masquerade Ball at the Flophouse, The Party Gets Going, We Are a Gang of Witches, Will You Marry Me?, Thinkin’, How Long?, The Next Time It Happens, girls

Recordings 1 recording

1993
Pipe Dream
Pipe Dream RCA Victor 61481, released March 9, 1993
United States

Licensing 2 entries

US Concord Theatricals R&H Theatricals available
UK Concord Theatricals R&H Theatricals available

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