Hazel Flagg

Infobox Musical
name= Hazel Flagg
subtitle=


caption= Original Cast Recording
music= Jule Styne
lyrics= Bob Hilliard
book= Ben Hecht
basis= Film "Nothing Sacred"
productions= 1953 Broadway
awards=

"Hazel Flagg" is a musical with a book by Ben Hecht, lyrics by Bob Hilliard, and music by Jule Styne. The musical is based on the 1937 screwball comedy film "Nothing Sacred". Ben Hecht was the primary writer of the film's screenplay.

The Broadway production, directed by David Alexander, with musical staging by Robert Alton, opened on February 11, 1953 at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, where it ran for 190 performances. The cast included Helen Gallagher (Hazel), John Howard (Wallace Cook), Thomas Mitchell, Benay Venuta, Ross Martin, Jonathan Harris, and Sheree North.

Paramount Pictures, which owned the rights to the source material for "Nothing Sacred", also acquired the rights to produce a film version of "Hazel Flagg". To date, the only result of this is the non-musical film "Living It Up" (1954), with Wallace Cook played by Dean Martin and Hazel Flagg re-written as a male played by Jerry Lewis. The one hit song from "Hazel Flagg", "Every Street's a Boulevard", was performed in this movie by Martin and Lewis.

Plot synopsis

Wallace Cook, a writer for "Everywhere Magazine", suggests that his editor should run an article about small-town girl Hazel Flagg, purportedly dying from exposure to radium. Cook invites her to New York City for an interview. After accepting, she discovers that she was misdiagnosed but, anxious to visit the big city, decides not to reveal the truth and becomes a media darling embraced by a public deeply moved by her sad story.

ong list

;Act I
* A Little More Heart -- Laura Carew, Wallace Cook and Magazine Staff
* The World Is Beautiful Today -- Hazel Flagg
* I'm Glad I'm Leaving -- Hazel Flagg
* The Ruthland Bounce -- Vermont Villager, Man on the Street, Dancer and Villagers
* Hello Hazel --Laura Carew and New Yorkers
* Paris Gown (ballet)-- Hazel Flagg, Maximilian Lavian, Dancers, Models and Attendants
* The World Is Beautiful Today -- Wallace Cook and Editors
* Every Street's a Boulevard in Old New York -- Mayor of New York
* How Do You Speak to an Angel -- Wallace Cook
* Autograph Chant -- Autograph Hunters
* I Feel Like I'm Gonna Live Forever -- Hazel Flagg
* You're Gonna Dance With Me, Willie -- Hazel Flagg, Willie and Company;Act II
* Who Is the Bravest? -- University Glee Club
* Dream Parade (ballet)-- Hazel Flagg and Company
* Salome -- Dancing Girls, Salome, Cowboy Singer and Cowboy Dancers
* Everybody Loves To Take a Bow -- Laura Carew, Mayor of New York and Men
* Laura De Maupassant -- Hazel Flagg
* Autograph Chant (Reprise) -- Autograph Hunters
* I Feel Like I'm Gonna Live Forever (Reprise) -- Company

Awards

*Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical (Mitchell)
*Tony Award for Best Costume Design
*Theatre World Award (North)

External links

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* [http://www.playbill.com/features/article/87023.html playbill article, ON THE RECORD, CD review, June 27, 2004]
* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,936391,00.html?promoid=googlep Time magazine review, February 23, 1953]