Playbill News runs a regular “Today in Theatre History” column.  The entry for June 21 includes this item:

1951 Audience members are taken back to Indianapolis circa 1907 as Seventeen opens at Broadway’s Broadhurst Theatre. Based on the novel by Booth Tarkington, the new musical features a book by Sally Benson. Singing the Walter Kent- Kim Gannon score are leads Anne Crowley and Kenneth Nelson. The show will run 23 weeks.

The book, of course, was published in 1916, and was made into a film distributed by Paramount in November of that year.  The film was remade in 1940.  The first dramatization was staged in 1917 in Indianapolis, and was published in 1924.  The first Broadway appearance was as the musical Hello, Lola! in 1926.