Fiorello!
Music by Jerry Bock and Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
Directed by George Abbott and Choreography by Peter Gennaro
The show opened in November of 1959 and ran for 795 performances.
Tony awards
Best Musical
Best featured actor, Tom Bosley
Best direction, George Abbott
Why
am I sharing this delightful and trenchant tune? It came to mind
because my Toronto Riding is holding a by-election tomorrow. There are
five vacant Provincial Parliament seats in Ontario and it is, once
again, my duty to play my part in the game by voting. However, I must
acknowledge my debt to the witty writers of Broadway and Hollywood who
help to remind me not to take this sort of thing too seriously.
Brian Donlevy, William Demarest
Skeeter (William Demarest): "If it wasn't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics. Men without ambition. Jellyfish.
- The Great McGinty, 1940
Written and directed by Preston Sturges
William B. Davidson, Mae West
Tira (Mae West): What do you do for a living?
Ernest Brown (William B. Davison): Oh, uh, sort of a politician.
Tira: I don't like work either.
- I'm No Angel, 1933
Written by Mae West, directed by Wesley Ruggles
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