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| Hellzapoppin' |
The
Broadway Musical
"A Screamlined Review"
Forty-sixth
Street Theater , September 22, 1938. |
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Hellzapoppin'
was originally a very successful Broadway musical. Olsen and Johnson
combined many skits, gags and sketches they had used in Vaudeville
shows around the country.
- THE HIT OF THE SHOW was the Un-programmed
(not listed in the musicals program) stunts and pranks,
with some being extremely insulting. However no one was offended
as they had "stooges" in the audience ready to take
the insults. Stunts such as fifty pounds of ice raffled off was
dumped into a "stooges" lap.
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The audience was led to believe that spiders were on the ceiling,
then "Rice" would be thrown at them. In the opening
scene, Hitler
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would be seen speaking with a "Yiddish accent. The critics
reported the show as "Ordinary" but the public saw it
differently and loved it.
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After the show closed Olsen and Johnson opened another show called
" Son's o' Fun" which was very similar to Hellzapoppin'.
By the way, Pins and Needles and Hellzapoppin' were the only shows
that passed the 500 performance record in that decade. The Movie
Hellzapoppin' came later.
1,404
Performances
(was one of Broadway's longest running musicals)
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Place |
Creation
Date |
Staged
By |
Produced
By |
| 46th
Street Theatre |
9/22/1938 |
Edward
Duryea Dowling |
Chic
Johnson |
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Ole
Olsen |
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By |
Music
By |
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Chic Johnson |
Sammy
Fain |
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| Ole
Olsen |
Additional
Words/Music By |
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Annette
Mills |
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Charles
Tobias |
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Don
George |
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Paul
Mann |
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Sam
Lewis |
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Stephen
Weiss |
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Teddy
Hall |
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Posters, Lobby Cards etc. |
Sheet Music Covers |
Principal
Music Titles |
| Hellzapoppin'1 (Movie) |
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Blow
a Balloon Up to the Moon |
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2
(Movie) |
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Boomps-a-Daisy" (Swing Song) |
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Fuddle-Dee-Duddle |
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It's
Time To Say Aloha |
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We
Won't Let It Happen Here |
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When
McGregor Sings Off Key |
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When
You Look In Your Looking Glass |
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Political |
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Ray
Kinney and the Aloha Maids |
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and Beverly Crane |
Reed,
Dean and Reed |
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Johnson |
Shirley
Wayne |
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Barto, (Comedians) |
The
Charioteers |
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Mann, (Comedians) |
The
Radio Rogues, (Musicians) |
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| Hal
Sherman |
Walter
Nilsson |
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Olsen |
Whitey's
Steppers, (Swing Dancers) |
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