Fanny (musical)

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For the movie see Fanny (1961 film).

Fanny
Original cast recording
Music Harold Rome
Lyrics Harold Rome
Book S. N. Behrman
Joshua Logan
Based upon Marcel Pagnol's plays Marius, Fanny and Cėsar
Productions 1954 Broadway

Fanny is a 1954 Broadway musical with book by S. N. Behrman and Joshua Logan, and music and lyrics by Harold Rome.

Contents

Plot

A tale of love, secrets, and passion based on Marcel Pagnol's trilogy of plays entitled Marius, Fanny and Cesar, it is set in and around the old port of Marseilles. The plot focuses on a young woman whose childhood love, Marius, leaves her for the sea. After his departure, she discovers she is pregnant and, under pressure from her mother, she marries Panisse, an older man whose delight at having an heir prompts him to keep the boy's illegitimacy a secret. Complications arise when the sailor returns from abroad and neither Fanny nor her son Cesario can hide their attraction to him.

Productions

The Broadway production, directed by Logan and choreographed by Helen Tamiris, opened on November 4, 1954, at the Majestic Theatre, where it ran for more than two years before transferring to the Belasco, for a total run of 888 performances. The original cast included Florence Henderson, Ezio Pinza, Mohammed El-Bakkar, and Walter Slezak, who won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical.

The show played in the West End at the Drury Lane Theatre in 1956. The cast included Robert Morley, Kevin Scott, and Janet Pavek.[1]

The Paper Mill Playhouse (Milburn, New Jersey) produced Fanny in 1990, with direction by Robert Johanson, the cast featured George S. Irving (Panisse), Jose Ferrer (Cesar), and Teri Bibb (Fanny).[2]

Dramatic film

The musical was made into the dramatic film Fanny, without songs, in 1961; Rome's stage score was heard in the soundtrack underscoring. Joshua Logan again directed the production, which starred Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Charles Boyer, and Horst Buchholz, in that order of billing.

Song list

Act I
  • Never Too Late for Love
  • Cold Cream Jar Song
  • Octopus Song
  • Restless Heart
  • Why Be Afraid to Dance?
  • Never Too Late for Love (Reprise)
  • Shika, Shika
  • Welcome Home
  • I Like You
  • I Have to Tell You
  • Fanny
  • The Lovers
  • The Sailing
  • Oysters, Cockles and Mussels
  • Panisse and Son
  • Wedding Dance
Act II
  • Birthday Song
  • To My Wife
  • The Thought Of You
  • Love is a Very Light Thing
  • Other Hands, Other Hearts
  • Fanny (Reprise)
  • Be Kind to Your Parents
  • Welcome Home (Reprise)

Recording

The original Broadway cast album was released on CD by RCA Victor (9026-68074-2).[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ Green, Stanley. Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre (1980), Da Capo Press, ISBN 0306801132, p. 118
  2. ^ Holden, Stephen."Review/Theater;50's 'Fanny' Is Revived With All Due Sentiment",The New York Times, April 13, 1990
  3. ^ Harris, Kenn."Review: Fanny: A New Musical (1954 Original Broadway Cast)",musicalheaven.com

External links


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Harold Rome musicals

Pins and Needles · Sing Out the News · Let Freedom Sing · Call Me Mister · Bless You All · Wish You Were Here · Fanny · Destry Rides Again · I Can Get It for You Wholesale · Harold Rome's Gallery · The Zulu and the Zayda · Scarlett (Gone with the Wind)
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