Panama hattie
Panama Hattie is a musical comedy with the music and lyrics by Cole Porter and a book by Herbert Fields and BG DeSylva . DeSylva produced the play, which premiered on October 30, 1940 at the 46th Street Theater in New York . With 501 performances, the musical was a great success. It was one of five Broadway musicals ( Anything Goes , Red, Hot and Blue , Du Barry Was a Lady , Something for the Boys ) that Cole Porter composed and Ethel Merman wrote inplayed the main role. Betty Hutton played another role . Shirley Temple was originally intended for the role of eight-year-old Geraldine , before this role was then given to Joan Carroll .
It premiered in London's West End on November 4, 1943 at the Piccadilly Theater and ran for 308 performances.
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Hattie Maloney is a cheeky but good-hearted nightclub owner in the Panama Canal Zone whose clientele, especially sailors, are not necessarily all interested in shipping. When she falls in love with Nick Bullett, an officer who also wants to marry her, she is given the chance of social advancement. That turns out to be difficult, however; Hattie has to win the sympathy of Nick's eight-year-old daughter Geraldine from his first marriage and overcome the resistance of the higher class, symbolized by Nick's superior Whitney Randolph. The former succeeds through its simple and unbendable character, the latter through the prevention of a bomb attack on the Canal Authority, in which Randolph's daughter, Kitty-Belle, is involved.
Well-known music numbers
- I've Still Got My Health
- Let's be buddies
- Make It Another Old-Fashioned, Please
filming
The film adaptation from 1942 under the title Panama Hattie by Norman Z. McLeod is based on the musical.
literature
- The Play: Panama Hattie . In: The New York Times , October 31, 1940 premiere review
- Porter on Panama . In: TIME Magazine , October 28, 1940 (English); Review after the Boston tryouts
Web links
- Panama Hattie on the Internet Broadway Database (IBDb)
- Panama hattie . The Stephen Sondheim Reference Guide