Seventeen is a 1951 American musical that debuted in the United States starring Kenneth Nelson.
[1][2][3] Set in Indianapolis in 1907, Seventeen is based on Booth Tarkington’s Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William, a series of sketches first published in 1914 in Metropolitan Magazine, before being collected into a book two years later.
[2] Adapted as a 1916 silent film, then a 1917 stage play,[4] it became a 1926 musical under the title Hello, Lola.
[2] In an adaptation by The New Yorker writer Sally Benson, and music by Walter Kent and lyrics by Kim Gannon, Seventeen opened at the Broadhurst Theatre[1] on Broadway June 21, 1951.
[2] The show detailed the puppy-love romance between 17-year-old Willie Baxter and the flirtatious Lola Pratt, portrayed by Kenneth Nelson and Ann Crowley.