Hazel Flagg

• Original Broadway Production (1953)
  New York, NY
• State Fair Musicals Production (1954)
  Dallas, TX

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Original score

• A Little More Heart
• The World Is Beautiful Today
• The Rutland Bounce
• I'm Glad I'm Leaving
  • aka Glad She's Leavin' [reprise]
• Hello, Hazel
  • aka Hello Hazel [no note]
• Paris Gown
• Every Street's a Boulevard in Old New York
• How Do You Speak to an Angel?
• Autograph Chant
• I Feel Like I'm Gonna Live Forever
• You're Gonna Dance with Me, Willie
• Who Is the Bravest?
• Dream Parade
• Salome
• Everybody Loves to Take a Bow
• Laura De Maupassant

Cut prior to opening

• Money Burns a Hole in My Pocket
• Think How Many People Never Find Love

Added to re-opened version

• My Wild Imagination
• Make the People Cry
• Something in the Wind
• Champagne and Wedding Cake
• That's What I Like

Based on the 1937 film Nothing Sacred, directed by William A. Wellman, from a screenplay by Ben Hecht, Some sources state that there were uncredited revisions by Dorothy Parker, Robert Carson, Budd Schulberg, and Ring Lardner, Jr. The film was freely adapted from a short story by James Street (aka James H. Street), originally titled "Letter to the Editor," published in Hearst’s International combined with Cosmopolitan, later republished in the magazine twice with the film's title.

The time is the 1930s. In a Vermont town, Hazel Flagg has been painting radium dials in a watchworks factory. She is told by Dr. Downer that she has only three weeks to live. In New York, a genius magazine editor who is looking to boost the magazine's circulation thinks it would be a good stunt to bring Hazel down and give her a big fling in the big city for the last days of her life. All of New York goes mad for Hazel.

It develops that Dr. Downer's diagnosis was wrong and Hazel is as healthy as a horse. Hazel and one of the magazine's associate editors fall in love.

(Adapted from the synopsis in Theatre '53, edited by John Chapman, published by Random House.)

The 1954 film version, titled Living It Up included "Every Street's a Boulevard in Old New York", "How Do You Speak to an Angel?", "You're Gonna Dance with Me, Willie" (retitled "You're Gonna Dance with Me, Baby") and "Money Burns a Hole in My Pocket" from the original score.

• Nothing Sacred (source material)