A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green is a musical

Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...

 revue

Revue

A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance and sketches. The revue has its roots in 19th century American popular entertainment and melodrama but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from 1916 to 1932...

 with a book and lyrics by Betty Comden

Betty Comden

Betty Comden was one-half of the musical-comedy duo Comden and Green, who provided lyrics, libretti, and screenplays to some of the most beloved and successful Hollywood musicals and Broadway shows of the mid-20th century...

 and Adolph Green

Adolph Green

Adolph Green was an American lyricist and playwright who, with long-time collaborator Betty Comden, penned the screenplays and songs for some of the most beloved movie musicals, particularly as part of Arthur Freed's production unit at MGM, during the genre's heyday...

 and music by Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim...

, Jule Styne

Jule Styne

Jule Styne was a British-born American songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway musicals, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows.-Early life:...

, André Previn

André Previn

André George Previn, KBE is an American pianist, conductor, and composer. He is considered one of the most versatile musicians in the world, and is the winner of four Academy Awards for his film work and ten Grammy Awards for his recordings. -Early Life:Previn was born in...

, Saul Chaplin

Saul Chaplin

Saul Chaplin was an American composer and musical director.He was born Saul Kaplan in Brooklyn, New York.He had worked on stage, screen and television since the days of Tin Pan Alley...

, and Roger Edens

Roger Edens

Roger Edens was a Hollywood composer, arranger and associate producer, and is considered one of the major creative figures in Arthur Freed's musical film production unit at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer during the "golden era of Hollywood".-Early career and work with Judy Garland:Edens was born in...

.

The performance was composed of material written by Comden and Green for stage shows, films, and their former comedy troupe The Revuers.

Produced by the Theatre Guild

Theatre Guild

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, the original Broadway

Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

 production opened on December 23, 1958 at the John Golden Theatre

John Golden Theatre

The John Golden Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 252 West 45th Street in midtown-Manhattan. Designed in a Moorish style along with the adjacent Royale Theatre by architect Herbert J. Krapp for Irwin Chanin, it opened as the Theatre Masque on February 24 1927 with the play Puppets of Passion...

, where it ran for 82 performances. It won the Obie Award

Obie Award

The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards given by The Village Voice newspaper to theatre artists and groups in New York City...

 for Best Musical http://www.villagevoice.com/obies/index.php?page=search&year=1958-59&category=Music&keyword=&obies-search=search. An original cast recording was released by Angel Records

Angel Records

Angel Records is a record label belonging to EMI. It was formed in 1953 and specialised in classical music, but included an occasional operetta or Broadway score...

 http://www.castalbumdb.com/rec.cfm?RNumber=906.

After four previews, a revival opened on February 10, 1977 at the Morosco Theatre

Morosco Theatre

The Morosco Theatre was a legitimate theatre located at 217 West 45th Street in the heart of the theater district in midtown-Manhattan, New York, United States....

, where it remained for six weeks before transferring to the Little Theatre

Helen Hayes Theatre

Helen Hayes Theatre with 597 seats is the smallest Broadway theatre and is located at 240 West 44th Street in midtown-Manhattan....

 to complete its 92-performance run. The duo then took the show on tour; a revival cast album recorded live at the Arena Theatre in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

was released by DRG http://www.castalbumdb.com/rec.cfm?RNumber=907.

Songs and sketches

• I Said Good Morning
• Movie Ads
• The Reader's Digest
• The Screenwriters
• The Banshee Sisters
• Baroness Bazooka
• New York, New York
• Lonely Town
• Lucky to be Me
• Some Other Time
• I Get Carried Away
• The French Lesson
• If You Hadn't, But You Did
• Catch Our Act at the Met
• One Hundred Easy Ways to Lose a Man
• Ohio
• Wrong Note Rag
• A Quiet Girl
• Oh My Mysterious Lady
• Captain Hook's Waltz
• Never Never Land
• Inspiration
• Just in Time
• The Party's Over
• Capital Gains
• Make Someone Happy
• The Lost Word
• Simplified Language

External links

• Internet Broadway Database listing