''A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green'' is a

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revue A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatre, theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance, and sketch comedy, sketches. The revue has its roots in 19th century popular entertainment and melodrama but grew into a substantial cultural pre ...

with a book and lyrics by

Betty Comden Betty Comden (May 3, 1917 – November 23, 2006) was an American lyricist, playwright, and screenwriter who contributed to numerous Hollywood musicals and Broadway shows of the mid-20th century. Her writing partnership with Adolph Green spann ...

and

Adolph Green Adolph Green (December 2, 1914 – October 23, 2002) was an American lyricist and playwright who, with long-time collaborator Betty Comden, penned the screenplays and songs for musicals on Broadway (theatre), Broadway and in Cinema of the Unite ...

and music by

Leonard Bernstein Leonard Bernstein ( ; born Louis Bernstein; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Considered to be one of the most important conductors of his time, he was th ...

Jule Styne Jule Styne ( ; born Julius Kerwin Stein; December 31, 1905 – September 20, 1994) was an English-American songwriter and composer widely known for a series of Broadway theatre, Broadway musical theatre, musicals, including several famous frequ ...

André Previn André George Previn (; born Andreas Ludwig Priwin; April 6, 1929 – February 28, 2019) was a German-American pianist, composer, and conductor. His career had three major genres: Hollywood films, jazz, and classical music. In each he achieved ...

Saul Chaplin Saul Chaplin (February 19, 1912 – November 15, 1997) 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. In film, he won ...

, and

Roger Edens Roger Edens (November 9, 1905 – July 13, 1970) 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 "gold ...

. The performance was composed of material written by Comden and Green for stage shows, films, and their former comedy troupe The Revuers. Comden and Green originally performed the revue ''A Party''

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at the Cherry Lane Theatre for 5 performances in November 1958.Dietz, Dan. "1224. A Party by Betty Comden and Adolph Green", ''Off Broadway Musicals, 1910–2007: Casts, Credits, Songs, Critical Reception and Performance Data of More Than 1,800 Shows'', McFarland, 2012, , p. 345 The revue was then produced on

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by the

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, opening on December 23, 1958, at the

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, where it closed on May 23, 1959, after 82 performances. It won the

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for Best Musical An

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was released by Capitol Records (LP# SWAO-1197). After four previews, a revival opened on Broadway on February 10, 1977, at the

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, where it remained for six weeks before transferring to the Little Theatre to complete its 92-performance run on April 30, 1977. This production included material written since the original 1958 show, including ''Do Re Mi'' and ''Subways Are For Sleeping''. The duo then took the show on tour, starting in Washington, DC. A revival cast album was recorded live at the Arena Theatre in

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was released by DRG.Ruhlmann, William
" 'A Party with Betty Comden & Adolph Green' [1977 Broadway Cast]"
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Discography

*''A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green'' (

Capitol Records Capitol Records, LLC (known legally as Capitol Records, Inc. until 2007), and simply known as Capitol, is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint. It was founded as the first West Coast-base ...

, 1959) *''A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green'' (DRG Records S2L-5177, 1977)

Songs and sketches

*"I Said Good Morning" *"Movie Ads" *"The Reader's Digest" *"The Screenwriters" *"The Banshee Sisters" *"Baroness Bazooka" *"

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" *" 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" *"

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" *"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"

References

External links

Internt Broadway database
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