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The Boy Friend

Opened 1954

485 performances

Musical, Golden Age

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The Boy Friend is a musical by Sandy Wilson. Its original 1953 London production ran for 2,078 performances, briefly making it the third-longest running musical in West End or Broadway history until they were all surpassed by Salad Days.

Music
Sandy Wilson

Productions3 on Broadway

1932
Morosco TheatreBroadway Original, opened June 7, 1932
15 performances
1954
Royale TheatreBroadway Revival, opened September 30, 1954, directed by Vida Hope
485 performances
1970
Ambassador TheatreBroadway Revival, opened April 14, 1970, directed by Gus Schirmer
111 performances

Songs14 songs

Perfect Young Ladies, The Boy Friend, Won’t You Charleston with Me?, Fancy Forgetting, I Could Be Happy with You, Sur la plage, On the Beach, A Room in Bloomsbury, The ‘You-Don’t-Want-to-Play-with-Me’ Blues, Safety in Numbers, The Riviera, It’s Never Too Late to Fall in Love, Carnival Tango, Poor Little Pierrette

Recordings 3 recordings

1989
The Boy Friend
The Boy Friend RCA Victor 60056-2-RG, released 1989
United States
2005
The Boy Friend Decca Broadway, released June 28, 2005
United States

Licensing 2 entries

UK Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals available
US Music Theatre International Sandy Wilson's The Boy Friend matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor Another house is also on record for this work.

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