Carnival in Flanders is a musical with a book by Preston Sturges, lyrics by Johnny Burke, and music by Jimmy Van Heusen. The Fantasticks was the longest-running musical in history. ... Preston Sturges (August 29, 1898 – August 6, 1959), originally Edmund Preston Biden, was a celebrated screenwriter and director born in Chicago. ... Johnny Burke was a songwriter who died in 1930 Johnny Burke (October 3, 1908 - February 25, 1964) was an American lyric writer. ... James Van Heusen (January 26, 1913 - February 7, 1990), often credited as Jimmy Van Heusen, was an American composer. ...

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Harold Arlen was approached to write the score, but the task ultimately fell to Van Heusen and Burke. Bing Crosby was providing much of the financing for the production and had great faith in the songwriting team, who had written several of his hits, despite the fact their previous theatrical collaboration, Nellie Bly (1946), had been a critical and commercial flop. George Oppenheimer, one of the book's original co-writers, withdrew from the project during pre-Broadway tryouts in Philadelphia, and Dorothy Fields joined her brother Herbert to help with rewrites. Eventually all their work was discarded by Sturges, who replaced Bretaigne Windust as director and completely reworked the book before the show reached California for a series of stagings by light opera companies prior to the New York City opening. Choreographer Jack Cole was replaced by Helen Tamiris, and several cast changes were made before the troubled production finally limped to Broadway. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Harry Lillis Bing Crosby (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death in 1977. ... Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... Nickname: City of Brotherly Love, Philly, the Cradle of Liberty, the City That Loves You Back, the Quaker City, The Birthplace of America Motto: Philadelphia maneto - Let brotherly love continue Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States State Pennsylvania County Philadelphia Founded October 27, 1682 Incorporated October 25, 1701 Mayor... Dorothy Fields was immortalised on a USPS postage stamp. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... Choreography (also known as dance composition) is the art of making structures in which movement occurs, the term composition may also refer to the navigation or connection of these movement structures. ... Jack Cole (1911 - 1974) is an American choreographer known as the father of theatrical jazz dance. ... Helen Tamiris (1905 -1996) choreographer, modern dancer, and teacher (also known as Helen Becker) originally trained in free movement (Irene Lewisohn) and ballet (Michel Fokine) Tamiris studied briefly with Isadora Duncan but disliked its emphasis on personal expression and lyrical movement. ...

It opened on September 8, 1953 at the New Century Theatre, where it ran for only six performances. The cast included John Raitt, Dolores Gray, and Roy Roberts. Critics were enchanted by Oliver Smith's sets and Lucinda Ballard's costumes, inspired by Breughel paintings, and Gray's lively performance, but universally panned every other aspect of the production. If remembered at all, it is primarily as the source of the Van Heusen-Burke standard "Here's That Rainy Day." September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years). ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... John Emmett Raitt (January 19, 1917, Santa Ana, California, USA - February 20, 2005, Pacific Palisades, California) was a star of the musical theater stage. ... Dolores Gray (born 7th June 1924, Chicago) was a well-known Broadway star in the 1940s-1950s. ... For other Roy Roberts with the same name, see Roy Roberts (disambiguation). ... Costume designer Lucinda Ballard (1906 - 1993) spent most of her career working in the theatre. ... Brueghel or Bruegel was the name of several Flemish painters from the same family line: Pieter Brueghel the Elder (c. ...

Gray won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. It remains the shortest-lived Tony-honored performance ever. What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ...

Song list

Act I

• Ring the Bell
• The Very Necessary You
• It's a Fine Old Institution
• I'm One of Your Admirers
• The Plundering of the Town
• The Stronger Sex
• The Sudden Thrill
• It's an Old Spanish Custom
• A Seventeen Gun Salute

Act II

• You're Dead!
• Here's That Rainy Day
• Take the Word of a Gentleman
• A Moment of Your Love
• How Far Can a Lady Go?

Reference

Not Since Carrie: Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops by Ken Mandelbaum, published by St. Martin's Press, October 1991, pages 169-71 Ken Mandelbaum is an American columnist, critic, and author whose primary field of expertise is theatre. ... Headquartered in the legendary Flatiron Building in New York City, St. ...

External link

Internet Broadway Database listing