The Channel Road
(1929)
Written by Alexander Woollcott and George S. Kaufman
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By Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman. Cast size: 14 men, 9 women, doubling possible; one set. The Man Who Came to Dinner rolled onto Broadway at the Music Box Theatre on October 16, 1939. It became an overnight smash hit and stayed, rather like Whiteside, for a protracted visit of 739 performances.
Kaufman had always been a Gilbert and Sullivan fan and when a fellow card-player once murmured a bit of doggerel to a bit of HMS Pinafore—"He nodded his head and never said no,/And now he's the head of the studio"—Kaufman was inspired. He used the tunes of Sir Arthur Sullivan and, for the first time in his career, wrote the lyrics as well as the libretto to a new musical.
Silk Stockings' producers, Cy Feuer and Ernest Martin, had a success with Guys and Dolls in 1950. Attempting to work again with Kaufman, who directed that production, they ultimately balked at the romantic aspect of Kaufman's adaptation of the film, which he wrote with his second wife, Leueen MacGrath.
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