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Shinbone Alley

Opened 1957

49 performances

Musical, Golden Age

Original Broadway Cast LP: "Shangri-La And Shinbone Alley", 1957, Shrink, EXC Image 1 of 4
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Shinbone Alley is a musical with a book by Joe Darion and Mel Brooks, lyrics by Darion, and music by George Kleinsinger. Based on the album Archy and Mehitabel: A Back-Alley Opera, which in turn was based on archy and mehitabel, a series of New York Tribune columns by Don Marquis, it focuses on poetic cockroach Archy, alley cat Mehitabel, and her relationships with theatrical cat Tyrone T.

Music
George Kleinsinger
Lyrics
Joe Darion
Book
Joe Darion and Mel Brooks

Productions1 on Broadway

1957
Broadway TheatreBroadway Original, opened April 13, 1957, directed by Production supervised by Sawyer Falk
49 performances

Songs23 songs

What Do We Care?, Toujours gai, Queer Little Insect, Big Bill, True Romance, The Lightning Bug Song, I Gotta Be, Dog and Cat Ballet, Flotsam and Jetsam, Come to Mee-ow, Suicide Song, Shinbone Alley, The Moth Song, A Woman Wouldn’t Be a Woman, The Lullaby, What the Hell, Pretty Kitty, Way Down Blues, The Lady Bug Song, Vacant Lot Ballet, Be a Pussycat, Quiet Street, Toujours Gai

Recordings 1 recording

2004
Shinbone Alley (1957 Studio Cast) Legend 6009/10, released November 16, 2004

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