Musical Theater
- At The Drop Of A Hat London revue Starring Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, opened at the New Lindsey Theatre on December 31 and transferred to the Fortune Theatre on January 24, 1957 for a total run of 808 performances
- Bells Are Ringing Broadway production opened at the Shubert Theatre on November 29 and ran for 924 performances
- Candide (Leonard Bernstein) – Broadway production opened at the Martin Beck Theatre on December 1 and ran for 73 performances
- Fanny London production opened at the Drury Lane Theatre on November 15 and ran for 347 performances
- Grab Me a Gondola London production opened at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith on November 27 and ran for 673 performances
- Happy Hunting Broadway production opened at the Majestic Theatre on December 6 and ran for 412 performances
- Irma La Douce Paris production opened at the Théâtre Gramont on November 12
- Li'l Abner (Gene De Paul and Johnny Mercer) – Broadway production opened at the St. James Theatre on November 15 and ran for 693 performances
- The Most Happy Fella Broadway production opened at the Imperial Theatre on May 3 and ran for 676 performances
- Mr. Wonderful Broadway production opened at the Broadway Theatre on March 22 and ran for 383 performances
- My Fair Lady (Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe) – Broadway production opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on March 15 and ran for 2717 performances
- Plain and Fancy London production opened at the Drury Lane Theatre on January 25 and ran for 217 performances
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“Then, bringing me the joy we feel when wee see a work by our favorite painter which differs from any other that we know, or if we are led before a painting of which we have until then only seen a pencil sketch, if a musical piece heard only on the piano appears before us clothed in the colors of the orchestra, my grandfather called me the [hawthorn] hedge at Tansonville, saying, “You who are so fond of hawthorns, look at this pink thorn, isn’t it lovely?””
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality. Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.”
—Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956)