''Comedy in Music'' is an original
Broadway
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Theatre
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comedy by
Victor Borge
Børge Rosenbaum (3 January 1909 – 23 December 2000), known professionally as Victor Borge ( ), was a Danish-American comedian, conductor, and pianist who achieved great popularity in radio and television in the North America and Europe. His ...
, with no additional cast involved, performed as a one-man show.
Production
''Comedy in Music'' opened at the
John Golden Theatre
The John Golden Theatre, formerly the Theatre Masque and Masque Theater, is a Broadway theater at 252 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Opened in 1927, the Golden Theatre was de ...
in New York City on October 2, 1953. It became the longest running one-man show in the history of theater with 849 performances by the time it closed on January 21, 1956, a feat which placed it in the ''
Guinness Book of World Records
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''.
Recordings
*''Comedy in Music, Vol. 1'' (1954, Columbia Records CL-6292, 10
'' LP)
*''Comedy in Music, Vol. 2'' (1954, Columbia Records CL-6293, 10
'' LP)
*''Comedy in Music'' (1954, Columbia Records CL-554, LP)
*''Comedy in Music'' (1972, CBS S 53140, LP)
*''Comedy in Music'' (1999, Collectables Records 6032, CD)
*''Comedy in Music'' (2009, SHO-227, CD)
References
External links
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1953 plays
Broadway plays