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33: 380:, where it ran for 25 performances and 31 previews. The musical was the last for Booth, over 70 years old at the time of the premiere, but she garnered unanimous critical raves from the critics. 429: 414: 383:
Raymond Bordner wrote: "Miss Booth is simply marvelous all the way, and it is a real treat to see her again on Broadway". Richard Watts, in the
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nuns, headed by a determined, dauntless Mother Superior, who manage to get an
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community in which they live, despite not having money to pay him.
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itinerant handyman/jack-of-all-trades named Homer Smith to build a
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Not Since Carrie: Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops
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I'd Sure Like To Give It A Shot - Homer & Chorus
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Jule Styne
Sammy Cahn
Book
Leonard Spigelgass
William Edmund Barrett
Lilies of the Field
Broadway
stage musical
Leonard Spigelgass
Sammy Cahn
Jule Styne
1962 novel
Lilies of the Field
German
African American
chapel
New Mexico
Ethel Merman
Joshua Logan
Shirley Booth
Sammy Davis Jr.
Al Freeman Jr.
Shirley Booth
Al Freeman Jr.
Titos Vandis
Taina Elg
Patti Karr
Broadway
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

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