Dream Girl (play)

At its core is Georgina Allerton, a young woman whose efforts to run a bookstore are undermined severely by her tendency to drift off into Walter Mitty-like flights of fancy on a regular basis. The play's time span covers a single day of her life, during which several successive extravagant and often comic daydreams are portrayed.

Dream Girl is a play by Elmer Rice.

The Broadway production, directed by the playwright, opened on December 14, 1945 at the Coronet Theatre, where it closed exactly one year later following a run of 348 performances.[1] The cast included Betty Field and Wendell Corey.

A travelling production starring Lucille Ball toured for 22 weeks in 1947.

A 1948 screen version, directed by Mitchell Leisen, starred Betty Hutton, Macdonald Carey, Peggy Wood, and Walter Abel.[2] In 1965, it was adapted for the Broadway musical stage under the title Skyscraper.[3]

In 1955 a televised version adapted by S. Mark Smith was presented in the Hallmark Hall of Fame series. It starred Vivian Blaine.[4]

References
  1. Cantu, Maya (2015). American Cinderellas on the Broadway Musical Stage: Imagining the Working Girl from Irene to Gypsy p. 149. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-1375-3453-8.
  2. "Dream Girl". Variety. December 31, 1947. Retrieved August 23, 2018.
  3. Bordman, Gerald; Norton, Richard (2010). American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle p. 711. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-1997-2970-8.
  4. "' DREAM GIRL' ROLE FOR VIVIAN BLAINE; Actress Will Be Starred on 90-Minute 'Spectacular' for N.B.C.-TV on Dec. 11". The New York Times. October 17, 1955. Retrieved August 23, 2018.


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