Make A Wish (Arkiv version)

A great cast, led by Nanette Fabray, Stephen Douglass, Helen Gallagher and Harold Lang, was the main attraction in Make a Wish, a better than average musical loosely based on Ferenc Molnar’s The Good Fairy, with a book by Preston Sturges (and Abe Burrows, who went uncredited), and music and lyrics by Hugh Martin. The story of a French orphan, on a visit to the French capital, who gets lost in Paris and discovers love with a young artist, in spite of a middle-aged millionaire’s advances, it opened at the Winter Garden on April 18, 1951. In a subplot to the main story, Helen Gallagher and Harold Lang brought Gower Champion’s imaginative choreography to dazzling heights, but even they couldn’t save the show from lasting only a mere 102 performances.

First LP release: May 25, 1951