High Button Shoes | |
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Music | Jule Styne |
Lyrics | Sammy Cahn |
Book | Stephen Longstreet George Abbott |
Basis | Novel by Stephen Longstreet The Sisters Liked Them Handsome |
Productions | 1947 Broadway 1948 West End 1956 Television 1982 Goodspeed Opera House 2007 Goodspeed Opera House |
High Button Shoes is a 1947 musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Sammy Cahn and book by George Abbott and Stephen Longstreet. It was based on the semi-autobiographical 1946 novel The Sisters Liked Them Handsome by Stephen Longstreet. The story concerns the comic entanglements of the Longstreet family with two con men in Atlantic City.
The musical opened on Broadway in 1947 (running for 727 performances), and in London's West End in 1948, and has had several regional revivals as well as being televised in 1956.