Two musicals opened in November 1959 that were surprisingly successful. One was on Broadway while the other was staged Off-Broadway. The first, Fiorello!, was a musical about New York City mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, who had left office just 14 years earlier and died in 1947. The show's book was by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott (drawn from Life with Fi…
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