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High Button Shoes
Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 2w, 5m
Music by Jule Styne
Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
Book by Stephen Longstreet
A rollicking homage to the silent-movie era, High Button Shoes unravels the comic entanglements of two con artists and an upstanding family in Atlantic City in 1913.
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Cast Size
2w, 5m -
Duration
More than 120 minutes (2 hours) -
Subgenre
Farce, Romantic Comedy -
Target Audience
Appropriate for All Audiences
Accolades
- Winner! 1948 Tony Award for Best Choreography (Jerome Robbins)
Winner! 1948 Theater World Award (Mark Dawson)
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Details
Summary
Based on Stephen Longstreet’s 1946 novel The Sisters Liked Them Handsome, High Button Shoes is a wacky tribute to Mack Sennett’s brand of screwball comedy. The score, which hilariously incorporates themes by Franz Liszt and Jacques Offenbach, features a string of delightful Jule Styne/Sammy Cahn numbers, including “Papa, Won’t You Dance With Me?,” “I Still Get Jealous” and “On A Sunday By The Sea” (a.k.a. “The Bathing Beauty Ballet”).
History
High Button Shoes opened on Broadway at the New Century Theatre on 9 October 1947, starring Phil Silvers and Nanette Fabray. The show later moved to the Shubert Theatre and the Broadway Theatre, playing a total of 727 performances.
Cast Attributes
Keywords
- Time Period 1910s/WWI
- SettingNew Brunswick and Atlantic City, New Jersey. 1913.
- Features Period Costumes
- Duration More than 120 minutes (2 hours)
Music
Music Samples
- Musical Style Classic Broadway
- Dance Requirements Difficult
- Vocal DemandsDifficult
- Orchestra Size Large
- Chorus Size Large
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