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The 1940 musical comedy featured a book by John O'Hara, lyrics by Lorenz Hart and music by Richard Rodgers. It included two songs that have become standards: I Could Write a Book and Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (see Great American Songbook). Directed by George Abbott, the opening-night cast included Gene Kelly, Vivienne Segal, Van Johnson, and June Havoc.
The play was a greater success when revived in 1952; it has also had revivals in 1963, 1976, and 1995.
The libretto's story is more coherent and sequential than the novel's. Joey Evans, as an unsympathetic anti-hero, is a striking departure from the usual musical-comedy formula. He casts off his girlfriend Linda, romances an older wealthy woman, Vera Simpson, gets her to set him up in business with his own nightclub. Vera thus becomes vulnerable to a blackmail attempt which is thwarted by Linda. Vera winds up throwing Joey out.
A loosely adapted film version starring Frank Sinatra and Rita Hayworth was released in 1957.
1957 filmsMusical filmsMusicals
Source: [wikipedia: pal joey]
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