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I Married an Angel

 
American Theater Guide: I Married an Angel
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I Married an Angel (1938), a musical comedy by Richard Rodgers (book, music), Lorenz Hart (book, lyrics). [ Shubert Theatre, 338 perf.] Willie Palaffi (Dennis King), a banker and ladies' man, breaks off his engagement to Anna (Audrey Christie) and swears he will marry only an angel. When a real angel (Vera Zorina) promptly flies into his life, he marries her. But her angelic honesty causes no end of problems for him until his sister, Countess Palaffi (Vivienne Segal), teaches the angel the ways of a cynical world. The Countess also bribes cab drivers to delay Willie's creditors until a way is found to save her brother's bank. Notable songs: I Married an Angel; Spring Is Here; At the Roxy Music Hall; A Twinkle in Your Eye. Basing it on a Hungarian play, Rodgers and Hart had originally worked on it with Moss Hart as a musical film. The film was scrapped, so the work was rewritten for the stage. In the Journal‐American, John Anderson characterized the Dwight Deere Wiman production as “a winged wonder‐work from the musical heavens of Rodgers and Hart.”

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Album Review: I Married an Angel
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I Married an Angel

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  • Artist: Various Artists
  • Rating: StarStarStar
  • Release Date: July 14, 1995
  • Type: Cast (Broadway, television or movie)
  • Genre: Soundtrack

Review

Rodgers & Hart's 1938 Broadway musical I Married an Angel, based on the Hungarian play Angyalt Vettem Feleségül by János Vaszary, was a fantasy about a count who, well, marries an angel -- a real angel, with wings and everything -- and the troubles that result. (For one thing, she insists on telling the absolute truth at all times, which causes lots of problems.) The show was a success, running 338 performances (a very healthy run in 1938-1939), but it came along five years before Oklahoma! began the trend for recording original cast albums, so the production was represented at the time only by a single released on the Liberty Music Shop label of "How to Win Friends and Influence People" and "At the Roxy Music Hall," sung by Audrey Christie of the cast. The present album is a compilation attempting to reconstruct the score by using the Christie single, plus a two-piano medley performed by Walter & Bowers and a version of "Spring Is Here" by Eve Symington, both also issued by Liberty Music Shop (though these performers did not appear in the stage production), along with some performances drawn from a 1950s radio production of the show featuring Gordon MacRae and Lucille Norman. The sound quality is less than optimum, as the material seems to have been mastered from old records or tapes. But for show music fans, the important thing is that there is an album approximating the score of a long-lost Rodgers & Hart show and featuring some wonderful, little-heard songs of theirs. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track TitleComposersPerformersTime
I Married an Angel/Medley Richard Rodgers (5:02)
I Married an Angel/Did You Ever Get Stung? Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart (2:44)
I Married an Angel/I Married an Angel Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart Gordon MacRae (2:20)
I Married an Angel/I'll Tell the Man in the Street Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart Gordon MacRae, Lucille Norman (1:27)
I Married an Angel/How to Win Friends and Influence People Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart Audrey Christie (2:12)
I Married an Angel/Finale Act One Richard Rodgers (2:43)
I Married an Angel/Spring Is Here Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart (2:57)
I Married an Angel/Angel Without Wings Richard Rodgers Lucille Norman (2:30)
I Married an Angel/A Twinkle in Your Eye Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart (2:44)
I Married an Angel/At the Roxy Music Hall Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart Audrey Christie (2:46)
I Married an Angel/Finale: I'll Tell the Man in the Street/Did You ... Richard Rodgers Gordon MacRae, Lucille Norman, Ensemble (3:50)

Credits

Gordon MacRae (Vocals), Gordon MacRae (Performer), Lorenz Hart (Lyricist), David Jones (?), Michael Mann (Dancer), John Marshall (Dancer), Mort Stevens (?), Walter (Piano), Arthur Kent (?), Vera Zorina (?), Althea Edler (?), Alma Wertley (Dancer), Audrey Christie (Vocals), Audrey Christie (Performer), Barbara Towne (?), Milton Barnett (Dancer), Virginia Williams (Dancer), Charles Walters (?), Lucille Norman (Vocals), Lucille Norman (Performer), Vivienne Segal (?), Dennis King (?), May Block (Dancer)
Wikipedia: I Married an Angel
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I Married An Angel
Original 1938 Poster
Music Richard Rodgers
Lyrics Lorenz Hart
Book Rodgers and Hart
Basis Hungarian play by Johann Vaszary
Productions 1938 Broadway
1942 Film

I Married An Angel is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart and book by Rodgers and Hart. It is based on a Hungarian play by Johann Vaszary. Rodgers and Hart wrote a number of songs for an unproduced film musical based on the same play in 1933.

Contents

1938 Broadway production

The show opened at the Shubert Theatre on May 11, 1938 and ran for 338 performances. It was directed by Joshua Logan. The cast was as follows:

Songs

  • "Angel Without Wings" (1938)
  • "Animated Objects" (1933)
  • "At the Roxy Music Hall" (1938)
  • "Did You Ever Get Stung?" (1938)
  • "Face the Facts" (1938)
  • "How to Win Friends and Influence People" (1938)
  • "I Married an Angel" (1938)
  • "I'll Tell the Man in the Street" (1938)
  • "I'm Ruined" (1938)
  • "Love Is Queen, Love Is King" (1933)
  • "Men from Milwaukee" (1938)
  • "The Modiste" (1938)
  • "Othello" (1938)
  • "Snow Ballet" (1938) (music by Richard Rodgers)
  • "Spring is Here" (1938)
  • "Tell Me I Know How to Love" (1933)
  • "A Twinkle in Your Eye" (1938)
  • "Wedding Scene" (1938)
  • "Why Have You Eyes?" (1933)
  • "Women Are Women" (1938)

1942 MGM film

Video cover for the 1942 film

The film version was directed by W. S. Van Dyke. It starred Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. It featured several additional songs not written by Rodgers and Hart.

External links

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The Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy Musicals

Naughty Marietta (1935) • Rose Marie (1936) • Maytime (1937) • The Girl of the Golden West (1938) • Sweethearts (1938) • New Moon (1940) • Bitter Sweet (1940) • I Married an Angel (1942)
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Rodgers and Hart musicals

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