Shows · Wish You Were Here
Wish You Were Here
Opened 1952
598 performances
Musical, Golden Age
It was known as the musical with the swimming pool, but Wish You Were Here had other things going for it, including a cast of ingratiating actors, a warm and witty score by Harold Rome, and a director, Joshua Logan, who wouldn’t stop making improvements even after the Broadway opening (among them were new dances choreographed by Jerome Robbins). The musical, which Arthur Kober and Logan adapted from Kober’s 1937 play, Having Wonderful Time, is set in Camp Karefree, an adult summer camp “where friendships are formed to last a whole lifetime through,” and is concerned with middle-class New Yorkers trying to make the most of a two-week vacation in the Catskills. Mainly it’s about Teddy Stern (Patricia Marand), a secretary from Brooklyn, who finds true love — after a series of misunderstandings — with Chick Miller (Jack Cassidy), a law student working as a waiter by day and a dancing partner by night.
- Music
- Harold Rome
- Lyrics
- Harold Rome
- Book
- Arthur Kober & Joshua Logan
Productions1 on Broadway
Songs19 songs
Social Director, Goodbye Love, Could Be, Tripping the Light Fantastic, Where Did the Night Go?, Summer Afternoon, Don José of Far Rockaway, Wish You Were Here, Flattery, Camp Karefree, Goodbye, Love, Shopping Around, Mix and Mingle, Certain Individuals, They Won’t Know Me, Don Jose (of Far Rockaway), Everybody Love Everybody, Relax, swimming pool musical,
Recordings 1 recording
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Wish You Were Here matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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