Pal Joey (musical)
1940 Rodgers & Hart musical, atypically featuring an antihero as its protagonist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Pal Joey is a 1940 musical with a book by John O'Hara and music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. The musical is based on a character and situations O'Hara created in a series of short stories published in The New Yorker, which he later published in novel form. The title character, Joey Evans, is a manipulative small-time nightclub performer whose ambitions lead him into an affair with the wealthy, middle-aged and married Vera Simpson. It includes two songs that have become standards: "I Could Write a Book" and "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered".
Pal Joey | |
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Music | Richard Rodgers |
Lyrics | Lorenz Hart |
Book | John O'Hara |
Basis | John O'Hara's novel Pal Joey |
Productions | 1940 Broadway 1952 Broadway revival 1954 West End 1963 Broadway[1] 1976 Broadway revival 1980 West End revival 2008 Broadway revival |
The original 1940 Broadway production was directed by George Abbott and starred Vivienne Segal and Gene Kelly. Though it received mixed reviews, the show ran for 10 months, the third-longest run of any Rodgers and Hart musical. There have been several revivals since, including a 2008–09 Broadway run, and a 1957 film adaptation starring Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth and Kim Novak.