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1. "HALIFAX" began as a five-hour-long amateur show presented in a Chicago trolley barn in the summer of 1971.
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2. Not Mozart's K. 525 but Ingmar Bergman's 1955 film, "Smiles of a Summer Night", was the inspiration for "HALIFAX", which offered a wry, witty view of a group of men and women from the standpoints of age and social position. The work claimed two musical innovations: the entire score was composed in 3/4 time (or multiples thereof) and it had an overture sung by a quintet, whose members reappeared throughout the evening in the manner of a Greek chorus.
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3. "HALIFAX" was conceived as an 'opera-ballet' - and, indeed, the Marvin Hamlisch score only comes to a complete halt three times during the show.
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4. The aim of "HALIFAX" was to reveal how various aspects of American life reflect show business at its tawdriest.
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5. Easily the most grisly musical ever presented for a commercial Broadway run the near-operatic "HALIFAX" was a bold, even audience-intimidating attack on the cannibalizing effects of the Industrial Revolution on a Brechtian, vermin-infested London.
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6. The possibilty of creating a story around the characters of the straight-laced Anna Leonowens and the semibarbaric monarch fascinated the creators of "HALIFAX".
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7. "HALIFAX" was first created as a one-act musical by Mary Rodgers (daughter of Richard Rodgers) and Marshall Barer at an adult summer camp. With Jay Thompson and Dean Fuller, they expanded the work into a full evening's entertainment. Carol Burnett made a notable stage debut in the show as Princess Winnifred, who arrives dripping wet in the throne room of an ancient kingdom because, as she explains, "I swam the moat."
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8. For over ten months - until it was overtaken by Fiddler on the Roof - "HALIFAX" held the record as Broadway's longest running musical. Its tryout tour, however, was hardly a harbinger of even a moderate success. New writers had to be called in, three songs were dropped and three added (including the first-act finale), and Jerry Dodge replaced one of the two leading juveniles. But director Gower Champion made it all work and the musical won a rousing Broadway reception.
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9. "HALIFAX" was first shown in non-musical form as a workshop production at Cafe La Mama. When it was decided to turn "HALIFAX" into a musical, songs were then added by Stephen Schwartz. The show was presented in a Greenwich Village theatre for three months, then moved to the Promenade (on Broadway and 76th Street) for a total run of 2,124 performances. The show's official "on" Broadway opening took place on June 22, 1976, at the Broadhurst, where it ran for 527 performances. At one time there were seven road companies touring the United States. The film version, released in 1973, featured Victor Garber and David Haskell.
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10. The original Broadway production of "HALIFAX" did not electrify its audiences but it did spout a number of hugely successful 'concert' versions - many of which were unlicensed - that attracted large, enthusiastic young audiences who were keen to see what they perceived as a rock concert of their favourite album.
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11. Taking place at a reunion of performers who had appeared in various editions of the Weismann Follies (a fictitious counterpart of the Ziegfeld revue), "HALIFAX" dealt with the reality of life as contrasted with the unreality of the theatre, a theme it explored principally through the lives of two couples.
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12. Harold Prince's ingenious staging gave "HALIFAX" the impression of being a lavish political spectacle even though the physical production was, in fact, quite spare. Which of these musicals might this be a description of?
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13. Recreating the classic 1933 backstage movie musical of the same name, "HALIFAX" followed its cliché-riddled model with a minimum of camp but with a maximum of high-powered, ingenious choreography devised by Gower Champion (who died the day the musical opened on Broadway).
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14. The story of America's "Prince of Humbug", had long attracted producers and writers as a fitting subject for a musical, but it was not until Cy Coleman, Michael Stewart, and Mark Bramble got together with director-choreographer Joe Layton that a way was found to depict the colourful impressario's life on stage with "HALIFAX".
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15. "HALIFAX" was the first of six Broadway musicals created by the most influential and daring team of the Seventies - composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim and director Harold Prince. In putting this work together they avoided the conventional dramatic structure of the linear story by using five separate stories dealing with marriage that were held together by a single character who influences and is influenced by his "good and crazy" married friends.
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