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Baker Street is a musical with a book by Jerome Coopersmith and music and lyrics by Marian Grudeff...

Baker Street is a musical with a book by Jerome Coopersmith and music and lyrics by Marian Grudeff and Raymond Jessel. Loosely based on the Sherlock Holmes story A Scandal in Bohemia by Arthur Conan Doyle, it is set in and around London in 1897, the year in which England celebrated the Diamond Jubilee of the reign of Queen Victoria (an event marked by an elaborate royal procession depicted by Bil Baird's marionettes). The musical veers from Conan Doyle's work in that Irene Adler becomes an associate of Holmes rather than his opponent, thus allowing an element of romance between the two. After six previews, the Broadway production, directed by Hal Prince, opened on February 16, 1965 at the The Broadway Theatre, where it ran for nine months. It then transferred to the Martin Beck Theatre (now the Al Hirschfeld Theatre), but closed after only eleven days, for a total of 311 performances. The opening night cast included Fritz Weaver, Peter Sallis, Martin Gabel, Inga Swenson, Virginia Vestoff, and, in small supporting roles, Tommy Tune and Christopher Walken in their Broadway debuts. Producer Alexander H. Cohen felt the show was such an event that he announced, prior to the opening, men