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Free Sheet Music by 42nd Street, 98 Degrees, 3 Doors Down, 50 Cent
42nd Street
42nd Street is a mus
ical with a book by Michael Stewart & Mark Bramble, words by Al Dubin, & music by Harry Warren. The 1980 Broadway production won the Tony Award for Best Musical & became a long-running hit, & the show was produced in London in 1984 (winning the Olivier Award for Best Musical) & its 2001 Broadway revival also won the Tony for Best Revival. The show is often revived.
Based on the novel by Bradford Ropes & the later 1933 film adaptation, it focuses on the efforts of famed dictatorial Great White Way director Julian Marsh to mount a successful stage production of a musical extravaganza at the height of the Great Depression.
The fact that prior to this the only film musical adapted for the stage had been the 1974 flop Gigi did not deter producer David Merrick from taking a bet with a $3 million production. He felt audiences one time again were prepared to embrace the nostalgia craze started by the successful revivals of No, No Nanette, Irene, & his own Lovely Eddie several years earlier, & augmented the familiar songs from the film's soundtrack with a liberal dose of popular tunes from the Dubin-Warren catalogue. Taking his cue from Hollywood's Busby Berkeley, famed for his elaborate musical numbers, director/choreographer Gower Champion filled the stage with spectacular dance routines, beginning with forty pairs of feet tap-dancing away as the curtain slowly rose for the first act as they did at that time.
Sheet Music
42nd Street
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