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Carmen Jones
Carmen Jones
is a 1943
Broadway
musical
with music by
Georges Bizet
(orchestrated for Broadway by
Robert Russell Bennett
) and lyrics and book by
Oscar Hammerstein II
which was performed at
The Broadway Theatre
. Conceptually, it is Bizet's opera
Carmen
updated to a
World War II
-era
African-American
setting. (Bizet's opera was, in turn, based on the
1846 novella
by
Prosper Mérimée
.) The Broadway musical was produced by
Billy Rose
, using an all-black cast, and directed by
Hassard Short
.
Robert Shaw
prepared the choral portions of the show.
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