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The first act is based on Mark Twain's The Diary of Adam and Eve; the second act is based on Frank R. The Apple Tree tickets Stockton's The Lady or the Tiger? (and has the same ambiguous ending). The third act, based on Jules The Apple Tree tickets Feiffer's Passionella, arguably has the most entertaining songs, notably “Oh, to Be a Movie Star.”
The musical opened on October 18, 1966, at the Shubert Theatre in New York, and ran for 463 performances, The Apple Tree tickets closing on November 25, 1967. It was produced by Stuart Ostrow, directed by Mike Nichols, and starred The Apple Tree tickets Barbara Harris, Alan Alda, and Larry Blyden. Harris won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical.
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The Roundabout Theatre Company, one of New York’s largest not-for-profit theatre companies, mounted a The Apple Tree tickets revival in December 2006 with Kristin Chenoweth, Brian D'Arcy James in Alda's roles and Marc Kudisch in The Apple Tree tickets Blyden's. The consensus of reviews was that the playlets themselves are all creaky with age, the music The Apple Tree tickets interesting but not inspired, and Chenoweth's performance a marvel and the evening's only important The Apple Tree tickets attraction (but a huge one).
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