Word: mamas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Good Night Ladies, starved in short order. Most of the smash hits were mere entertainment, but entertainment with some freshness and taste. There were no electrifying experiments during the season, but a good many successes - the Pulitzer-Prizewinning Harvey, the Critics' Circle Prize-winning Glass Menagerie, I Remember Mama, Anna Lucasta, Dark of the Moon - had more than a touch of novelty...
Sitting pretty on Broadway was Play wright John van Druten, with two smash hits (The Voice of the Turtle, I Remember Mama}. Sitting prettier were Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, with two smash musicals (Oklahoma!, Carousel)-and the producers' haul from Mama. On a seesaw were Broadway's two gaudiest impresarios: Mike Todd aground, his pockets heavy from Up in Central Park] Billy Rose aloft, his pockets light from The Seven Lively Arts. Still spry, Life With Father beat the record of Abie's Irish Rose (2,327 performances), had only Tobacco Road...
...Remember Mama. Nostalgic turn-of-the-century saga of a picturesque Norwegian-American clan (TIME...
Beyond being Hammerstein's biggest plum, Oklahoma! may have started his greatest partnership. He and Composer Rodgers have a second smash in Carousel; as Broadway producers, they are cleaning up on John van Druten's I Remember Mama; under the title of Williamson Music Inc. (both their fathers were named William), they are highly successful music publishers; Hollywood is excited over the forthcoming cinemusical they have made of State Fair; and they have plans afoot for another Broadway show...
...Other votes: two for Harvey; one each for A Bell for Adano and / Remember Mama. One critic voted that no award be made...