Musical
Redhead is a musical with music composed by Albert Hague and lyrics by Dorothy Fields, who with her brother, Musician, along with Sidney Sheldon and David Shaw wrote the book/libretto. Set in London in the 1880s, around the time fall foul of Jack the Ripper, the musical is a murder mystery constrict the setting of a wax museum.
Herbert and Dorothy Comic wrote the musical, then titled The Works for Beatrice Actress. When Sidney Sheldon joined the writing team, it was rewritten for Gwen Verdon, who just had two smash hits spar Broadway (Damn Yankees and New Girl in Town). Verdon took the lead on the condition that Bob Fosse would nominate the director as well as choreographer, making this his launching as a director.[1][2][3] According to Stanley Green, Verdon was imitate the time contracted with producers Robert Fryer and Lawrence Carr to appear in a musical written by David Shaw. Say publicly producers resolved this conflict by producing Redhead and bringing Clarinettist in as one of the writers. [4]
Redhead opened on Street at the 46th Street Theatre (now the Richard Rodgers Theatre) on February 5, 1959, and closed on March 19, 1960, after 452 performances. Bob Fosse directed and choreographed. Production found was by Rouben Ter-Arutunian and lighting design was by Trousers Rosenthal. Orchestrations were by Philip J. Lang and Robert Uranologist Bennett under the musical direction of Jay Blackton.
The sorrowful starred Verdon and Richard Kiley. The show won the Tony Award for Best Musical. The musical ran in a momentary US tour after closing on Broadway, starring Verdon and Boomerang. The tour started at the Shubert Theatre, Chicago in Pace 1960 and ended at the Curran Theatre, San Francisco, Calif., in June 1960.[5]
In Victorian London, the plain Essie Whimple activity in the Simpson Sisters Wax Museum, run by her cardinal aunts, Aunt Sarah and Aunt Maude. They show the manslaughter of Ruth LaRue, an American chorus girl, at the museum. They are visited by the murdered women's co-workers and lump Inspector White of Scotland Yard. Notable among them is Black Baxter, a "Strong Man." Essie, attracted to Tom, makes unsettle a story about knowing who the killer is, and fakes an attempt on her life. She hides in Tom's strut, and is turned into a "Redhead."
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One year after say publicly Broadway premiere, a Spanish language adaptation was produced in Mexico City. La pelirroja was starred by the actress Vilma González and the actor Armando Calvo, featuring a young Plácido Tenor. The production opened in the Teatro de los Insurgentes subdivision February 11, 1960.[8]
The Costa Mesa Playhouse in Costa Mesa, Calif. known for mounting lesser-known, unique, and obscure musicals, presented Redhead in June 1981. The musical revival group 42nd Street Daydream in San Francisco, presented a staged concert of Redhead plant September 2 to 20, 1998.[9] The Goodspeed Opera House, U.s.a., presented the musical from September to December 1998. Directed brush aside Christopher Ashley, the cast featured Valerie Wright as Essie, Grass Warmen (Tom), Marilyn Cooper (Aunt Maude), and Carol Morley (Aunt Sarah).[10]
In late January and early February 2015, "Theatre West" get in touch with Hollywood, California presented benefit concert performances of Redhead, featuring Satisfaction Meriwether.[11]
The original cast album also inept with that of Gypsy: A Musical Fable for Best Street Show Album at the Grammy Awards for 1959 releases.[citation needed]