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Street Scene

Opened 1947

148 performances

Musical, Golden Age

Sam Levene, who was in the 1929 production. unknown (RKO Pictures)

Street Scene is a 1929 American play by Elmer Rice. It opened January 10, 1929, at the Playhouse Theatre in New York City.

Music: Kurt Weill
Lyrics: Langston Hughes
Book: Elmer Rice

Productions2 on Broadway

1929

Playhouse TheatreBroadway Original, opened January 10, 1929

601 performances

1947

Adelphi TheatreBroadway Revival, opened January 9, 1947, directed by Charles Friedman

148 performances

Songs8 songs

Somehow I Never Could Believe, Ice Cream, Wrapped in a Ribbon and Tied in a Bow, Wouldn’t You Like to Be a Broadway?, What Good Would the Moon Be?, Moon-Faced, Starry-Eyed, Remember That I Care, We’ll Go Away Together

Recordings 7 recordings

Street Scene Jay Records CDJAY21232

Street Scene Columbia Masterworks OL 4139

United States

1947

Street Scene Columbia Masterworks MM 683, released June 1947

United States

1988

Street Scene (1947 original Broadway cast) CBS Records Masterworks MK 44668, released August 23, 1988

United States

1991

Street Scene London Records 433371, released 1991

United States

1996

Street Scene (1989 English National Opera cast) Jay Records CDJAY21232, released October 29, 1996

United Kingdom

2009

Street Scene Naxos Musicals 8.120885, released July 28, 2009

Germany

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