| Billion Dollar Baby | |
|---|---|
| Music | Morton Gould |
| Lyrics | Betty Comden Adolph Green |
| Book | Betty Comden Adolph Green |
| Productions | 1945 Broadway |
Billion Dollar Baby is a musical with the book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and the score by Morton Gould. Comden and Green were fresh from their success with On the Town, and the production team was something of an On the Town reunion: once again, George Abbott directed and Jerome Robbins choreographed.
The musical is set on Staten Island and in Atlantic City during the late 1920s. It follows the adventures of an ambitious young woman, Maribelle Jones, in her quest for wealth during the Prohibition era.