Three Wishes for Jamie (musical) - original 1952 Playbill program

 

The March 1952 Playbill magazine and theatre program for Three Wishes for Jamie. 

Three Wishes for Jamie is a musical with a book by Charles O'Neal and Abe Burrows and music and lyrics by Ralph Blane. Based on O'Neal's 1949 novel The Three Wishes of Jamie McRuin, the fantasy focuses on the title character, a young Irishman who, when offered three wishes by the Queen of the Fairies, chooses travel, a bride, and a son who can speak Gaelic. The granting of the first brings him to Atlanta, Georgia, where the second is fulfilled in the form of Maeve Harrigan. But the third will prove to be more difficult to enjoy when it is discovered his new wife is unable to conceive and the couple adopts a mute boy. After tryouts in New Haven, Boston, and Philadelphia, the Broadway production opened on March 21, 1952 at the Mark Hellinger Theatre. The opening had been delayed for two weeks to give Burrows "more time in which to improve the musical", and so added a tryout in Philadelphia. It transferred to the Plymouth Theatre for the final week of its 92 performance run.

Playbill is an American monthly magazine for theatregoers. Most copies of Playbill are printed for particular productions and distributed at the door as the show's program. The magazine is now used at nearly every Broadway theatre, as well as many Off-Broadway productions.

 

Paperback, period ads, b/w ill., 32pp.

 

Condition: Good used - fraying to spine of covers, good binding and pages. 

ISBN: N/A

 

Published:  NY: American Theater Press, 1952

 

Weight: 100gms

 

Size: 22 x 15 cms.

 

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