Skyscraper
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"The New Musical Comedy" music by James Van Heusen lyrics by eee Cahn book by Peter Stone based on the 1945 comedy ae Girl by Elmer Re directed by Cy Feuer choreographed by Michael Kidd produced by Cy Feuer and Ernest H. Martin starring Julie Harris, Peter L. Marshall, and Charles Nelson Reilly | (replacing Victor Spinetti) with Nancy Cushman, Dick O’Neill, Donald Burr, Rex Everhart, and Lesley Stewart opened Novembe…
- Opened
- 1965
- Performances
- 248
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Revolution
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1965 | Lunt-Fontanne Original. November 13, 1965 · Cy Feuer | 248 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 2 albums held
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
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7 passages naming Skyscraper, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
SKYSCRAPER! [November 13, 1965] and WALKING HAPPY? [November 26, 1966] (both with music by Jimmy Van Heusen). book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p266
Skyscraper was more successful but less happy backstage (its lyricist Sammy Cahn found it ‘a devastating experience’). book:west-end-broadway-the-golden-age-of-the-american-musical-adrian-wright-boydell-b#p242
More successful but less happy backstage (its lyricist Sammy Cahn found it ‘a devastating experience’) was Skyscraper (248). book:west-end-broadway-the-golden-age-of-the-american-musical-in-london-adrian-wright#p287
Rosalind Russell in Wonderful Town (1953), Tony Randall in Oh Captain! (1958), Lucille Ball in Wildcat (1960), Julie Harris in Skyscraper (1965), and Katharine Hepburn in Coco (1969) demonstrate that the musical’s cultural prestige now attracted even Hollywood folk or, in Harris’ case, “real” actors. book:anything-goes-a-history-of-american-musical-theatre-ethan-mordden#p213
These are the people who know that Charles Nelson Reilly replaced Victor Spinetti in Skyscraper, that Pacific Overtures played its two out-of-town tryouts in Boston and Washington, and that RCA Victor would have recorded Foxy in 1964 if the damned thing had run longer. book:broadway-musicals-the-biggest-hit-and-the-biggest-flop-of-filichia-peter-new-yor#p234
Near the theatre was the Gaiety Delicatessen (made famous in the musical Skyscraper). They advertised an “INTERMISHNOSH.” book:show-and-tell-the-new-book-of-broadway-anecdotes-ken-bloom-bloom-ken-oxford-univ#p160
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