Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (musical)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a musical with music by Frank Churchill and Jay Blackton, lyrics by Larry Morey and Joe Cook, and book by Joe Cook. Adapted from Walt Disney Productions' 1937 animated musical film of the same name – which in turn had been based on the classic 1812 German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm – about a princess banished from her kingdom by her vain stepmother, and she comes to live with seven dwarfs in their woodland home. First produced in 1969, the show carries much of the film's score over, by Churchill and Morey, along with four new songs by Blackton and Cook. It ran a total of 106 performances. Productions The stage adaptation was originally created at The Muny in St. Louis in 1969 and was repeated there in 1972. A production opened at the Radio City Music Hall on October 18, 1979, and closed a month later, after 38 performances, in order for Radio City to put on the Radio City Christmas Spectacular (went up November 25, 1979, to and closed after 91 performances on January 6, 1980). Snow White went on a brief tour with stops in Chicago and Washington,