Seventeen (musical)

Seventeen
Music Walter Kent
Lyrics Kim Gannon
Setting Indianapolis, 1907
Basis Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William by Booth Tarkington
Premiere 1951: United States

Seventeen is a 1951 American musical that debuted in the United States starring Kenneth Nelson.[1][2][3]

Overview

Set in Indianapolis in 1907, Seventeen is based on Booth Tarkington’s Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William, a series of sketches first published in 1914 in Metropolitan Magazine, before being collected into a book two years later.[2] Adapted as a stage play, then as a silent film, it became a 1926 musical under the title Hello, Lola.[2]

In an adaptation by New Yorker writer Sally Benson, and music by Walter Kent and lyrics by Kim Gannon, Seventeen opened at the Broadhurst Theatre[1] on Broadway on June 21, 1951.[2] The show detailed the puppy-love romance between 17-year-old Willie Baxter and the flirtatious Lola Pratt, portrayed by Kenneth Nelson and Ann Crowley.[2] It ran for 182 performances.[2]

References

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