Sweet Charity
| Sweet Charity | |
|---|---|
Original Broadway cast recording cover (1966) | |
| Music | Cy Coleman |
| Lyrics | Dorothy Fields |
| Book | Neil Simon |
| Basis | Nights of Cabiria by Federico Fellini Ennio Flaiano Tullio Pinelli Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| Productions | 1966 Broadway 1967 West End 1986 Broadway revival 2005 Broadway revival 2006 US tour 2009 West End revival |
| Awards | 1986 Tony Award for Best Revival |
Sweet Charity is a musical with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields, and book by Neil Simon, based on the screenplay for the 1957 Italian film Nights of Cabiria. It was directed and choreographed for Broadway by Bob Fosse starring his wife and muse Gwen Verdon as a dancer-for-hire at a Times Square dance hall, alongside John McMartin.
The musical premiered on Broadway in 1966, where it was nominated for nine Tony Awards, winning the Tony Award for Best Choreography. The production also ran in the West End and has run several revivals and international productions. It was adapted for the screen in 1969, directed and choreographed by Fosse in his feature-film directorial debut. Shirley MacLaine starred as the title character, and McMartin reprised his Broadway role as Oscar Lindquist.