Silk Stockings
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Imperial Theatre Annie Get Your Gun Billy Elliot: The Musical Call Me Madam Carnival Chess Destry Rides Again Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Dreamgirls Fiddler on the Roof Flying Colors Jamaica Jerome Robbins’ Broadway Jubilee Leave It to Me! Louisiana Purchase Miss Liberty Most Happy Fella, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The New Moon, The Oh, Kay! Oliver! On Your Toes One Touch of Venus Pippin Rose-Marie Silk Stockings Song o…
- Opened
- 1955
- Performances
- 478
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Golden Age
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1955 | Imperial Theatre Original. February 24, 1955 · Cy Feuer | 478 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 3 albums held
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
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36 passages naming Silk Stockings, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
There have been musicals about the cold war (e.g. Leave It to Me!, Silk Stockings ), but Chess was the first to treat the conflict seriously, using an international chess match as a metaphor. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p273
It settled into a profitable run of almost 500 performances and was later made into a successful MGM film musical. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p449
Cole Porter's last musical, Silk Stockings (1955), an adaptation of Garbo's famous film Ninotchka, was a hit with Don Ameche, Hildegarde Neff, and Gretchen Wyler. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p180
Then, Cole Porter’s last Broadway show, Silk Stockings (2/24/55; 477 performances), opened at the Imperial with Don Ameche and Hildegarde Neff in the leads. “All of You” was the hit in the score. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p279
Porter’s last show, Silk Stockings (2/24/55; 478 performances), was based on the film Ninotchka. Hildegarde Neff had the Greta Garbo part, with support from Don Ameche and Gretchen Wyler. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p439
The list of musicals he directed and choreographed is remarkable, and even a partial list of musicals he doctored is impressive: Funny Girl, Silk Stockings, Wonderful Town, Wish You Were Here, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and Cabaret, for starters. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p130
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