The musical's original 1963 Broadway run won several Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Book.

Unlike the original movie, the musical did not contain any actual sex or nudity, which caused some disappointment among people, as false hype had been made and the musical's producers did nothing to dismiss it.

The musical's original 1954 London production ran for 2, 078 performances, making it briefly the third-longest running musical in West End or Broadway history ( after Chu Chin Chow and Oklahoma!

At a later point, Twentieth Century Fox reversed its original decision and granted the musical's creators full rights to All About Eves script ; however, by that time, the show was so far along in its development that major changes could not be made to the book.

Merman had first sung " There's No Business Like Show Business " in the original Broadway production of Annie Get Your Gun in 1946 and would go on to sing it again in the 1967 television broadcast of the musical's Lincoln Center revival production.

In 1956 Coote created the role of Colonel Pickering in the original Broadway production of My Fair Lady ( 1956 – 1962 ), which he reprised in the musical's 1976 – 77 Broadway revival.

Although major revivals of the musical have been rare in recent decades, as the musical's treatment of bigotry against blacks in the American South has become dated, in 2004 the Irish Repertory Theatre staged a well-received off-Broadway production starring Melissa Errico, Johnathan Freeman, and Malcolm Gets.

Douglas Carter Beane wrote a new book for the musical's first Broadway production, " aiming for a Broadway opening in 2013 ".

On opening night at the outdoor Madison Square Garden Roof Theatre, millionaire playboy Harry K. Thaw shot and killed architect Stanford White: the otherwise undistinguished musical's run continued for some 60 performances largely on the publicity from this incident.

The illustration on which the musical's emblem is based.

In 1969, he co-starred on Broadway as Horace Vandergelder in the long-running musical Hello, Dolly !, reuniting him onstage with Diller, who played the musical's zany title character.

The film based on the musical and play was directed by the musical's director, Peter Coe.

The New York Times reported on the musical's Boston opening ( in September 1935 ), writing about Hart's book that it combines " satire, sentiment and humor in good proportion.

The musical's theme of psychoanalysis is said to be based on Hart's own experiences with psychoanalyst Gregory Zilboorg.

Lea Salonga will star as Grizabella in the musical's Philippine run on July 24-August 22, 2010.

The musical's Original Cast Album, on the RCA / Victor label, was nominated for a Grammy Award.

Her big breakthrough occurred in 1995 when she created the title role in Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus ' Kristina från Duvemåla, which she played on and off for nearly four years ( during the musical's entire run ).

Carnival! s equivalent of " Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo ", the signature song from the musical's parent film Lili, " Love Makes the World Go ' Round " is played on a concertina at the play's opening and is later sung by the characters Lili and Paul Berthalet, with the latter being concealed while his puppets apparently sing.

The resulting recordings included material cut at various stages of the musical's development.

His portrayal of Javert earned him his first Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role, a role which he would later reprise near the end of the musical's run at the Imperial Theater in 2003.

Perhaps the key to the musical's approach, as conceived by the director Richard Maltby Jr., is its willingness to let Waller speak simply and eloquently for himself, through his art but without show-biz embroidery.

The dream ballet, in which dancers Marc Platt, Katherine Sergava, and George Church doubled for the leading actors, successfully integrated dance into the musical's plot.

Such was the musical's success that for some years these donations were exceeding 500 Pounds a day.

The musical's enduring popularity lies in its light-hearted innocence and apparent simplicity, in sharp contrast to the many " hard-nosed " American musicals of the era, and its bright score including the songs " We Said We Wouldn't Look Back ", " I Sit in the Sun ", and " We're Looking for a Piano ".

The musical's director must choose only one Cheetah for the role and the girls are forced to make a decision.

" At the musical's core is the struggle between youth and old age, innocence and corruption, love and ambition, and poverty and wealth, as Angel tries to decide if she would be better served by her feelings for Orphan or Rich's willingness to fulfill her every dream.

Before the musical each year, students scramble to raise money by soliciting local companies for ads to be placed in the musical's program.

In the center is the house of Senex, who lives there with wife Domina, son Hero, and several slaves, including head slave Hysterium and the musical's main character Pseudolus.

; Overture / Work Song: In the musical's first song, Valjean is called from a chain gang of prisoners to be released.

Brooks Atkinson of The New York Times praised the musical's integration, stating, " For once, the modest label " musical play " has a precise meaning.

This second Jolson screen smash demonstrated the movie musical's ability to turn a song into a national hit: inside of nine months, the Jolson number " Sonny Boy " had racked up 2 million record and 1. 25 million sheet music sales.

Moreno would die tragically only ten days before the musical's Paris première.

The musical's emblem is a picture of the waif Cosette sweeping the Thénardiers ' Inn, usually shown cropped to a head-and-shoulders portrait with the French national flag superimposed.

The musical's inspiration was reportedly a photograph, inadvertently found by Schönberg in a magazine.

The producers and Fields then asked Irving Berlin to write the musical's score ; Fields agreed to step down as lyricist, knowing that Berlin preferred to write both music and lyrics to his songs.

Red Riding Hood's cape is also one of the musical's four quest items that are emblematic of fairy tales.

Critics praised the musical's faithfulness to Damon Runyon's style and characterizations.

After the musical's 25th anniversary concert, producer Cameron Mackintosh announced that the film had resumed development.

Lucia Victor, Gower Champion's assistant and a director of several revivals, including Hello Dolly !, was hired as director, but resigned shortly thereafter, due to " artistic differences " with the musical's star, Angela Lansbury, and the authors, according to The New York Times.

The musical's songs " Tomorrow " and " It's the Hard-Knock Life " are among its most popular musical numbers.

In 1966, Bobby Darin, Louis Armstrong, and Herb Alpert all charted in the United States and Canada with their cover records of the musical's title song.

On the new musical's opening night, Kate puts together evidence of the affair from a few subtle clues, and leaves Dexter without further ado.

The musical's main character is a man who has what may be terminal brain cancer.