"I Could Have Danced All Night"
date: label: publishing date
content: 1956
name: label: publisher
content: Chappell & Co. Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This sheet music is for the song “I Could Have Danced All Night,” with music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. It was published by Chappell and Co., Inc. in New York, New York in 1956.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>“I Could Have Danced All Night” was featured in the musical, <i>My Fair Lady</i>, with music by Frederick Loewe and book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. <i>My Fair Lady</i> was based on the 1913 play <i>Pygmalion</i> by George Bernard Shaw. <i>My Fair Lady</i> had its pre-Broadway at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut. The show opened on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on March 15, 1956 and subsequently moved to the Broadhurst Theatre and The Broadway Theatre for a record-breaking run of 2,717 performances after closing on September 29, 1962. This production of <i>My Fair Lady</i> received several Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Direction of a Musical for Moss Hart, and Best Leading Actor and Actress for Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews, in 1957.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Sheet Music
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0403.07
label: accession number
content: 1985.0403
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0403.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sheet music
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 9 in; 30.48 cm x 22.86 cm