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High Button Shoes is a 1947 musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Sammy Cahn and book by George Abbott and Stephen Longstreet. It was based on the semi-autobiographical 1946 novel The Sisters Liked Them Handsome by Stephen Longstreet. The story concerns the comic entanglements of the Longstreet family with two con men in ...
High Button Shoes was Jule Styne’s first Broadway hit and won Jerome Robbins his first Tony Award for choreography years before West Side Story and Gypsy (another Styne-Robbins collaboration). Follow the hysterical misadventures of two charismatic conmen as they proceed to bamboozle the Longstreet family—inciting a chase from New ...
Bonus tracks include Jack Everly's 1992 RCA recordings of the overtures to HIGH BUTTON SHOES and HAZEL FLAGG. The BLONDES tracks are the original versions heard in the 78 RPM and LP releases, not the alternate takes heard on the Sony CD edition. The songs from SHOES are restored to their proper theatrical order. 1.
When fast-talking conman Harrison Floy sets his sights on the quiet Longstreet family of suburban New Jersey, he sets in motion a series of comic misadventures, including dubious auto sales, bogus land schemes, and illegal football wagering.
Asst. to the Choreographer: Gluck Sandor; Assistant to the Director: Robert Griffith; General Press Representative: Karl Bernstein; Casting: Howard Hoyt. High Button Shoes (Original, Musical, Comedy, Broadway) opened in New York City Oct 9, 1947 and played through Jul 2, 1949.
In 1947, Styne wrote his first score for a Broadway musical, High Button Shoes, with Cahn, and over the next several decades wrote the scores for many Broadway shows, most notably Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Peter Pan (additional music), Bells Are Ringing, Gypsy, Do Re Mi, Funny Girl, Lorelei, Sugar (with a story based on the movie ...
This was Jule Styne’s first Broadway show and the collaboration with lyricist Sammy Cahn proved to be successful. High Button Shoes ran for 727 performances and produced hit songs “I Still Get Jealous” and “Papa, Won’t You Dance With Me”.
