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''First Impressions'' is a Broadway musical with music and lyrics by George Weiss, Bo Goldman, and Glenn Paxton, and book by Abe Burrows, who also directed the musical. It is based on Helen Jerome's 1935 stage adaptation of Jane Austen's novel ''Pride and Prejudice''. ==Background== Abe Burrows, who had previously written the books for the successful musicals ''Guys and Dolls'', ''Can-Can'', and ''Say, Darling'', wrote the book for a new musical adaptation of Jane Austen's ''Pride and Prejudice''.〔Mandelbaum, 262〕 The score was credited to three authors: George Weiss, Robert Goldman, and Glenn Paxton, though composer Jule Styne, who produced the show under the auspices of the "Jule Styne Organization", was said to have augmented the score.〔 The score mixes early-19th-century "period" music with standard Broadway idioms of the 1950s. The musical was originally titled ''A Perfect Evening'', but before rehearsals began, the show's creators changed it to ''First Impressions'', Austen's original, pre-publication title for ''Pride and Prejudice.''〔 The musical concentrates more than the novel does on Mrs. Bennet's perspective and on her tireless attempts to marry off her five marriageable daughters despite the family's lack of money. The emphasis on Mrs. Bennet is the result of having cast a star (Hermione Gingold) in what was meant by Austen to be a secondary role. According to Granger, the musical was beset by a series of disasters, the most notable all involving the frequently dangerous sets. Granger said several dancers were injured during rehearsals and the tryout in New Haven. Moreover, reports Granger, Gingold and Bergen disliked each other, and Mitchell felt ill-used.〔Granger 123-130〕 Stuart Hodes, Mitchell's understudy and one of the injured dancers, says that Granger's account was exaggerated.〔Hodes, Stuart. ("Who's Next in the Barrel?" )〕 Hodes also notes that Lucas's several replacements as choreographer included an uncredited Herbert Ross.〔 Fifteen-year-old Lauri Peters, who played Kitty Bennet, left a good enough first impression on Richard Rodgers that he invited her to audition for his next show, ''The Sound of Music''. Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II cast her in the role of Liesl, the eldest daughter, in the 1959 original Broadway production of the ''The Sound of Music''. Peters shared a Tony Award nomination for the role, and stayed with the show for two years. When Jane Austen wrote her first novel, a novel about the Bennet family of Longbourne, she called it First Impressions, but she couldn’t find a publisher. However, once Sense & Sensibility, Austen’s second novel, became a popular success, T. Egerton of Whitehall, the publisher of Sense & Sensibility, agreed to release First Impressions with a new name: Pride & Prejudice. In this early instance of successful branding, a novel called First Impressions went nowhere, but given a new title, Pride & Prejudice quickly became one of the great classics of Western literature. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「First Impressions (musical)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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