BELLS ARE RINGING
Date: 1956
Theater: Sam Schubert
Performances: 924
Lyrics: Comden/Green
Book: Comden/Green
Music: Styne, Jule
Other Contributors:
MUSICAL NUMBERS:
Bells are Ringing, Better than a Dream, Do It Yourself, Drop That Name, Hello Mazurka, Hello, Hello There!, I Met a Girl, I'm Goin' Back., INDEPENDENT (ON MY OWN) SONG, Is it a Crime?, It's a Perfect Relationship, It's a Simple Little System , JUST IN TIME , Long Before I Knew You, The Midas Touch, Mu-Cha-Cha, NAME DROPPING GAVOTTE, OOGIE WOOGIE SHOOGIE, OPENING, The Party's Over, Salzburg, SANTA'S LULLABY, You've Got to Do It.
Quick Summary: Ella, a meddlesome switchboard operator for Susanswerphone falls in love with a client, Jeff Moss. She has never met him, and similarly keeps her identity concealed from him, pretending to be a motherly old lady.
Some Cast Highlights: Judy Holliday, Sydney Chaplin, Jean Stapleton, Eddie Lawrence.
Awards: Tony Awards: Actress- Musical (Judy Holliday). Featured Actor (Sydney Chaplin) Tony Nominations: Best Musical. Choreographer (Robbins/Fosse).
Were there revivals? The revival of Bells Are Ringing opens on Broadway on April 12, 2001 (previews begin March 13, 2001). Purchase tickets online at
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Is there an album available? Yes -Original Broadway cast: Columbia, 1958. Film Cast: Capitol Records, 1960.
Is there a video available? Yes -Video made of Goodspeed Opera House Production. 1990, (BRTC). Video of MGM film, 1991.
Was there a TV broadcast? No.
RIGHTS
First Class Rights: Authors.
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Foreign: Chappell was the agent for amateur stage rights in Great Britain, Ireland and Australia between 1963 and 1984.
Music Publishing: Stratford Music Corp. c/o Warner Chappell Music, Inc by agreement in 1956.
Libretto Publishing: Applause Books, 1997
MERCHANDISE
Bells Are Ringing
Comden, Green, Styne
1956 Original Broadway Cast
Sony/Columbia
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