JULE STYNE

High Button Shoes (1947)• Sammy Cahn and June Styne • Opened on Broadway the New Century

Theater on October 9th, 1947 • Closed in the Broadway Theatre July 2, 1949

after 2 years and 727 performances

• Starred Nannette Fabray and Phil Silvers

• “He Tried to Make a Dollar”• “Can't You Just See Yourself in Love with Me?”• “There's Nothing Like a Model T”• “Next to Texas, I Love You” • “Bird Watcher's Song”

Gentleman Prefer Blondes

• Opened on December 8th, 1949 at the Ziegfield Theater

• Record breaking presales: $600,000

• Starred a, then unknown, Carol Channing.

• Ran 740 performances

• Closed September 15th, 1951

Carol Channing

LeoRobin

Jule Styne

JeromeRobbins

•  July 19, 1951 at the Mark Hellinger Theater where it ran for 276 performances. 

• Bert Lahr and Dolores Gray

TWO ON THE AISLE

Jule Styne

Stephen Sondheim

ArthurLaurents

• Ethel Merman originated the role of Rose• Jack Klugman as Herbie• Sandra Church as Louise• Opened May 21st, 1959 at The Broadway Theatre

• Choreographed by Jerome Robbins• 8 Tony Nominations, zero wins• Closed March 25th, 1961 after 702 performances and

2 previews• Upon closing, there were two national tours. The

second of which featured a young Bernadette Peters as various ensemble parts

“The best damn musical I’ve seen in years!”

Walter Kerr, The New York Herald Tribune, 1959

• “Some People”• “You’ll Never Get Away from Me”• “Let Me Entertain You”• “Everything’s Coming Up Roses”• “If Momma Was Married”