Some great footage from MY ONE AND ONLY

[morosco]

Some great footage from MY ONE AND ONLY#1

Posted: 10/15/17 at 12:23am

What a great show that was! 

My One and Only

[Smaxie]

Some great footage from MY ONE AND ONLY#2

Posted: 10/15/17 at 8:56am

I loved that show. Thank you for posting, Morosco.

Given its tortured tryout in Boston, where all hell broke loose, the salvaging of it for the Broadway production was really one of the great turnaround success stories of recent history. It's my favorite of the "new" Gershwin musical comedies, as it has the anarchic, loose-limbed spirit of those original 1920s Gershwin musicals, like Lady, Be Good! and Oh, Kay! and the like. 

For those who don't know the story of My One and Only's Boston tryout and complete overhaul, here is a NY Times account of what happened. It helps when you can have the likes of Mike Nichols, Peter Stone and Michael Bennett come to the rescue, but even so... There was also a superb NY Magazine story about the show's journey, but I haven't been able to locate it. So this version will have to do. 

How My One and Only came to Broadway

 

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

Updated On: 10/15/17 at 08:56 AM