Red, Hot and Blue (1936, Ethel Merman, Jimmy Durante, Bob Hope, Cole Porter score) - repro

Cole Porter, Howard Lindsay, and Russel Crouse’s 'Red, Hot and Blue!' completed a celebrated original Broadway premiere run at the Alvin Theatre in 1936, running for an astonishing 183 performances. The breathless, jazz-infused musical comedy farce centers on a high-stakes national lottery swindle and corporate deceptions engineered to locate a long-lost woman who was branded with a waffle iron during her childhood youth. Directed under precise blueprints, the historic original production achieved permanent stardom by pairing vocal titan Ethel Merman, comedic icon Jimmy Durante, and a young Bob Hope.