Shows · The Band Wagon
The Band Wagon
Opened 1931
260 performances
Musical, Early
Put together by the same creative team that had been responsible for Three’s a Crowd, The Band Wagon may well have been the most sophisticated, imaginative, and musically distinguished revue ever mounted on Broadway. To assure that the production would have the same homogeneity of style as a book musical, there were no interpolations in the score and only two writers were credited for the sketches.
- Music
- Arthur Schwartz
- Lyrics
- Howard Dietz
Productions1 on Broadway
Songs8 songs
Sweet Music, High and Low, Hoops, Confession, New Sun in the Sky, I Love Louisa, Dancing in the Dark, White Heat
Recordings 4 recordings
it better be good, it better be worth the money” with the result that any attempt to upgrade the intelligence of the musical seems doomed to failure; to wit, Stephen Sondheim, who appears to be a prophet with sporadic profit in his own country.
Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 5They weren’t.” He reported that the opening night audience “applauded the show as if they were seeing a combination of such superior diversions as the first Charlot’s Revue, the Scandals of 1926 and The Band Wagon. They weren’t.”
The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 239Something wrong here? Correct a field or report the problem. Every change is recorded in public under the contributor licence.