
Shinbone Alley (1957, repro)
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George Kleinsinger, Joe Darion, and Mel Brooks’s 'Shinbone Alley' arrived at the Broadway Theatre in 1957, running for an accomplished 49 performances, remaining a prized Holy Grail artifact for serious lyric stage scholars tracking the initial career libretto book milestones managed by comedic giant Mel Brooks. Based on Don Marquis’s celebrated newspaper profiles, the jazz-pop musical fantasy tracks Archy, a poetic cockroach youth, and Mehitabel, an independent alley cat, starring Eddie Albert.

