The Day Before Spring
Shows · The Day Before Spring
At their tenth college reunion, Katherine Townsend reconnects with her former lover Peter. As memories of their passionate youthful romance resurface through dream ballets, Katherine must decide between the stability of her marriage and the rekindled fire of her first love.
- Opened
- 1945
- Performances
- 165
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Golden Age
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1945 | National Theatre Original. November 22, 1945 · Edward Padula, John C. Wilson | 167 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 1 album held
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International The Day Before Spring matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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4 passages naming The Day Before Spring, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
The team persevered and created Brigadoon after a modest effort, The Day Before Spring, which closed out of town. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p46
Spring was not a success, but a $250,000 film sale to MGM Studios stabi- lized the team. book:musical-a-grand-tour-the-rise-glory-and-fall-of-an-flinn-denny-martin-new-york-l#p360
On their way to Brigadoon’s lucky opening night in 1947 at the Ziegfeld Theatre, Lerner and Loewe had already written two shows together, neither of which clicked: What’s Up, a 1943 wartime musical directed by George Balanchine, and the promising The Day Before Spring, a 1948 venture that did not survive split notices. book:broadway-musicals-a-hundred-year-history-lewis-david-h-2002-2012-mcfarland-compa#p93
With composer Frederick Lowe he formed one of the legendary partnerships of the American musical theatre, beginning with their collaboration on The Day Before Spring. book:theatre-world-1986-87-season-v-43-willis-john#p233
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