Jumbo (musical)
Jumbo is a Musical - Circus - Revue , an extravaganza with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart . The book is by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur . Jimmy Durante was seen in one of the leading roles . The premiere took place on November 16, 1935 at the Hippodrome Theater in New York .
background
The Broadway producer Billy Rose took Rodgers and Hart for his circus-musical project from Hollywood to New York. He rented New York's largest theater, the Hippodrome Theater, and had it rebuilt so that it looked like a big top inside. The production devoured the then record sum of $ 340,000. It was also so costly to run that the show, while successful, had to close after 233 performances.
This was the first musical that George Abbott (in collaboration with John Murray Anderson ) staged.
action
A story similar to Romeo and Juliet serves as a bracket for music, dance, acrobatics, animal training and variety shows :
The offspring of two rival circus entrepreneurial families, Matt Jr. and Mickey, are not allowed to get together because the heads of the two families Matthew Mulligan and John A. Considine have been falling out for ages. Considine, Mickey's father, has other worries: His circus is on the verge of ruin, among other things due to his alcohol problem. To avert this, Considines “Press Agent” Claudius B. Bowers advises against insurance fraud .
In the end, the lovers manage to reconcile their fathers.
Well-known music numbers
- Over and over again
- The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
- Little Girl Blue
- My romance
- There's a Small Hotel - was during the tryouts taken out and later in the musical On Your Toes used
filming
The 1962 film adaptation under the title Billy Rose's Jumbo (Eng. Spiel mit mir ) by Charles Walters with Doris Day and Jimmy Durante is based on the musical.
literature
- Richard Rodgers: Musical Stages: An Autobiography , Da Capo Press (April 2002), ISBN 0306811340 , ISBN 978-0306811340
Individual evidence
- ↑ Musicals101.com - History of The Musical Stage, The 1930s: Part, Rodgers & Hart, Jumbo , accessed November 20, 2007
- ↑ TheaterMania.com Peter Filichia's Diary Jumbo and More , Oct 28, 2002 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 20, 2007
Web links
- Jumbo in the Internet Broadway Database (IBDB)
- Jumbo www.lorenzhart.org (English)
- TIME Magazine Review of 25 November 1935 launch of Jumbo (English)