
Carefree Heart (1957 closed in tryout)
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The short-lived 1957 musical comedy 'Carefree Heart' represents an incredibly fascinating collaboration featuring music and lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest—the legendary team behind Kismet—and a book co-written by comedy icon Abe Burrows that infamously closed during its out-of-town tryout at Philadelphia's Forrest Theatre. Freely adapting Molière's classic farce The Doctor in Spite of Himself, the plot spins a frantic web of romantic deceptions and farcical medical mix-ups. Directed by Burrows and starring Jack Carter and Susan Johnson, the production stands as a premier Holy Grail artifact for stage historians.

