Destry Rides Again?

[renthead92]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 12:31pm

Hi, I was just watching "The Producers" (which is an awesome movie by the way) and during "It's Bad Luck To say Good Luck on Opening Night" I was looking at the posters in the back, and I knew all of them except for "Destry Rides Again." Can anybody tell me what it's about? Thanks in advance.

[timote316]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 12:33pm

I'm not exactly sure, but there was a western back in the 30s by that title.
Destry Rides Again (1939)

Posted: 5/29/06 at 12:38pm

Destry Rides Again was a Broadway musical in the late 50s with a score by Harold Rome. It starred Andy Griffith and Dolores Gray. It was based on the film Destry which starred Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart. I saw Destry Rides Again and thought the score and the choreography were excellent, not to mention the performances of Griffith and Gray.

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 12:40pm

"Destry Rides Again" is a musical version of the classic James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich movie. It starred Andy Griffith and fabulous Delores Gray, had a score by the vastly underappreciated Harold Rome featuring the gorgeous songs "Anyone Would Love You" and "I Say Hello", was produced by David Merrick in the late '50's.

[renthead92]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 12:54pm

OK, thank you so much. It sounds like fun. Is there a recording of it?

[IssaMe]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 2:24pm

Decca Original cast album available from various Amazon dealers at around $22.00 and up...and WELL WORTH IT. Also still around in some stores.

There's the London 1982 revival as well (also on Amazon). Also old LPs by various studio casts--- but those are long gone.

Stick with the Broadway original cast --- they were brilliant.

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 2:29pm

The first thing I thought when I saw this thread was, I saw that poster on The Producers.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 2:37pm

This is another show that needs a revival badly

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 2:39pm

I thought that was an excellent attention to detail: all teh poseters you see in teh Schubert Alley shots were shows that were playing in 1959!

DESTRY was one of those flops that ran a year yet failed to pay back. The score by Harold Rome lacks everything but noise. The dances by Micahel KIdd were supposedly phenomenal, but you can't see those on a CD. I belive the disc is now out-of-print.

[renthead92]

Posted: 5/30/06 at 7:23am

Thank You everybody!

[Katurian2]

Posted: 5/30/06 at 8:26am

lol- Yes, and for its opening night, they decked out the streets in full western decorations- sawdust and horse troughs and harnesses everywhere. Talk about a theme party.

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 5/30/06 at 6:43pm

I think that the "Are You Ready, Gyp Watson?" was performed on the Bell Telephone Hour and is available on Delores Gray DVD that VAI is releasing.

[Flahooley]

Posted: 5/30/06 at 8:21pm

I've never been a fan of the score. Though Griffith is GREAT!!!

[Jon]

Posted: 5/30/06 at 9:31pm

It would be an ideal show for ENCORES.

[IssaMe]

Posted: 5/31/06 at 7:36am

CD of the 1982 London revival still in the stores - the original Broadway cast CD is occasionally around but much harder to find -and is still best bought on Amazon for $22...not that much more than the somewhat inferior London revival CD which sells for $18 or $19 in stores.