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Seven Lively Arts

Opened 1944

183 performances

Revue, Golden Age

Beatrice Lillie, who was in the 1944 production. Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, p. 286

A lavish revue celebrating the seven lively arts — theatre, music, dance, painting, sculpture, cinema, and radio — through a series of sketches, musical numbers, and ballet sequences. Beatrice Lillie delivers comic sketches, Bert Lahr provides broad comedy, and Benny Goodman's orchestra plays jazz while prima ballerina Alicia Markova dances to a ballet composed by Igor Stravinsky.

Music: Cole Porter
Lyrics: Cole Porter

Productions1 on Broadway

1944

Ziegfeld TheatreBroadway Original, opened December 7, 1944, directed by Hassard Short, Philip Loeb

183 performances

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