Material Girl song reached the top-ten in Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Netherlands, Spain and the Eurochart Hot 100 Singles, while reaching the top 40 of Germany, Italy and Switzerland. In New Zealand and Japan, the song reached the top-five. The music video was inspired by Madonna's admiration of Marilyn Monroe and mimicked the latter's performance of the song "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" from the 1953 film "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes". It also featured actor Keith Carradine, who played Madonna's love interest. The video was the first to showcase Madonna's acting ability, as it combined the dance routines of "Diamonds Are a Girl's
The Boy Friend (musical) The Boy Friend (musical) The Boy Friend (sometimes misspelled The Boyfriend) is a musical by Sandy Wilson. The musical's original 1954 London production ran for 2,078 performances, making it briefly the third-longest running musical in West End or Broadway history (after "Chu Chin Chow" and "Oklahoma!") until these were all surpassed by "Salad Days". This musical marked Julie Andrews' American stage debut. Set in the carefree world of the French Riviera in the Roaring Twenties, "The Boy Friend" is a comic pastiche of 1920s shows (in particular early Rodgers and Hart musicals such as "The Girl Friend"). Its relatively small