musical DuBarry Was a Lady

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DuBarry Was a Lady is a 1939 Broadway musical comedy with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, known for its zany plot involving a nightclub hat-check man who dreams he is King Louis XV and for introducing several classic Porter songs.

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instanceOf Broadway musical
musical comedy
basedOn characters of Louis XV and Madame du Barry
broadwayClosingDate 1941-12-12
broadwayOpeningDate 1939-12-06
broadwayOriginalOrchestraConductor Al Goodman
broadwayTheatre Chanin’s 46th Street Theatre
surface form: 46th Street Theatre
composer Cole Porter
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
filmAdaptationStudio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
filmAdaptationYear 1943
firstPerformanceDate 1939-12-06
genre Broadway musical
musical comedy
hasAdaptation DuBarry Was a Lady
surface form: Du Barry Was a Lady (1943 film)
knownFor introducing several classic Cole Porter songs
zany plot involving a nightclub hat-check man who dreams he is King Louis XV
language English
lyricist Cole Porter
lyricsBy Cole Porter
musicBy Cole Porter
musicGenre show tunes
notableSong Do I Love You?
Friendship
Katie Went to Haiti
Well, Did You Evah!
orchestrationBy Robert Russell Bennett
Ted Royal
originalBroadwayChoreographer Robert Alton
originalBroadwayDirector Vincente Minnelli
originalBroadwayProducer B. F. Keith
surface form: B. F. Keith – Albee Theatre Circuit
originalBroadwayStar Bert Lahr
Betty Grable
Ethel Merman
originalLanguage English
placeOfPremiere Chanin’s 46th Street Theatre
surface form: 46th Street Theatre

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plotSummary A nightclub hat-check man dreams he is King Louis XV at the French court with his friends in transformed roles.
premiereYear 1939
setting New York nightclub
Court of Louis XV of France
surface form: court of Louis XV
subjectMatter Louis XV of France
surface form: King Louis XV

Madame du Barry
time travel dream
totalBroadwayPerformances 408

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Well, Did You Evah! firstPerformanceContext musical DuBarry Was a Lady