Say, Darling
Shows · Say, Darling
Say, Darling is a three-act comic play by Abe Burrows and Richard and Marian Bissell about the creation of a Broadway musical. While the play featured nine original songs with lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Jule Styne, all the songs are presented as either rehearsal or audition material.
- Opened
- 1958
- Performances
- 332
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Golden Age
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1958 | ANTA Theatre Original. April 3, 1958 · Abe Burrows | 332 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 3 albums held
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
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29 passages naming Say, Darling, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
In 1958, Richard Bissell’s novel, Say, Darling, which the author had based on his experience with The Pajama Game, was itself turned into a musical by Bissell, his wife Marian, and Abe Burrows. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p156
"After seeing his novel adapted into a successful musical for which he cowrote the script, Richard Bissell was inspired to write Say, Darling , a book about a writer’s observations when his novel is adapted into a musical. This slightly Pirandelloesque approach resulted in the book Say, Darling being adapted into a sem… book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p394
and in 1957 Bissell wrote the novel Say, Darling , which was based on his exper book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p700
During the tryout, the song “In My Little Yellow Dress” was deleted but later reinstated when the musical was revived by the New York City Center Light Opera Company a month after the Broadway closing. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p702
The New York City Center Light Opera Company’s production of Say, Darling opened a month after the musical’s Broadway closing where it had played for a disappointing 332 performances and lost a good portion of its investment. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p758
Say, Darling (4/3/58; 332 performances), a modest hit with a Jule Styne score and book by Richard Bissell, Marion Bissell, and Abe Burrows, followed. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p133
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