Jumbo (Musical)

Jumbo is a musical circus revue, an extravaganza with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart. The book is by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. In one of the main roles Jimmy Durante was seen. The premiere took place on 16 November 1935 at the Hippodrome Theatre in New York.

Background

The Broadway producer Billy Rose took Rodgers and Hart back for his circus - musical project from Hollywood to New York. He rented the largest New York theater, the Hippodrome Theatre, and had it rebuilt so that it looked like a circus tent inside. The production devouring a then-record sum of $ 340,000. The operation was so expensive that the show, although she was successful, after 233 performances had to close.

This was the first musical that George Abbott directed (in collaboration with John Murray Anderson).

Action

As a staple for music, dance, acrobatics, animal training and variety is a story similar to Romeo and Juliet:

The offspring of two rival circus entrepreneur families, Matt Jr. and Mickey should not come together, because the two heads of family, Matthew Mulligan and John A. Considine are at loggerheads since ancient times. Considine, Mickey's father, but has other worries: Partly due to his drinking problem is his circus about to go under. To avert this, Considine's "press agent " advises Claudius B. Bowers for insurance fraud.

At the end succeeds the lovers to reconcile the fathers.

Well-known musical numbers

• Over and Over Again
• The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
• Little Girl Blue
• My Romance
• There 's a Small Hotel - was taken out during the tryouts and later used in the musical On Your Toes

Filming

The film adaptation from 1962 under the title of Billy Rose's Jumbo ( German game with me) by Charles Walters with Doris Day and Jimmy Durante is based on the musical.