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Harry Tierney

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Composer 1890–1965

Harry Austin Tierney (May 21, 1890 – March 22, 1965) was an American composer of musical theatre, best known for long-running hits such as Irene (1919), Broadway's longest-running show of the era (620 performances), Kid Boots (1923) and Rio Rita (1927), one of the first musicals to be turned into a talking picture (and later remade starring Abbott and Costello).

Also credited on1 work

Irene

These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.

In the literature6 passages

  • Songs: “My Baby’s Arms” (Harry Tierney-Joseph McCarthy); “Tulip Time” (David Stamper-Gene Buck); “Mandy”; “A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody”; “You’d Be Surprised”; “You Cannot Make Your Shimmy Shake on Tea” Berlin-Rennold Wolf)ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Then, too, Irene ’s score, by Harry Tierney and Joseph McCarthy, was even better integrated than most Princess scores. Tierney was no Kern, true. Still, his and McCarthy’s intentions toward the plot were honorable, from the gleefully scampering “We’re Getting Away With It” to the gently ragging “The Last Part of Every Party.” And the hit…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt
  • The score by Harry Tierney and Joseph McCarthy wasn't much to cheer about, though Cantor had fun with the interpolated hit "Dinah." Instead, the main fun in Kid Boots was its comedy set pieces. Cantor gives a nonsensical golf lesson early the show, and in one scene he undergoes a near-murderous massage in the club spa.ebooks/Viagas, Robert/I'm the Greatest Star_ Broadway's Top Musical Legends from 1900 to Today - Robert Viagas.txt
  • 192L Kid Boots (1923). Book: William Anthony McGuire and Otto Harbach; lyrics: Joseph McCarthy; music: Harry Tierney. Musical comedy that takes place in Florida at the fashionable Everglades Golf Club, where Kid Boots plies his trades of golf caddie, golf pro, bootlegger,theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt
  • IRENE Book, Hugh Wheeler, Joseph Stem; From an Adaptation by Harry Rigby; Based on onginal play by James Montgomery; Music, Harry Tierney; Lyncs, Joseph McCarthy; Additional Lyrics and Music, Charles Gaynor, Otis Clemei.ts; Director, Gower Champion; Musical Numbers Staged by Peter Gennaro; Production and Costumes Designer, Raoul Pene duBo…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1972-73 Season, v. 29 (Willis).txt
  • IRENE Book, Hugh Wheeler, Joseph Stein; From an adaptation by Harry Rigby; Based on original play by James Montgomery; Music, Harry Tierney; Lyrics, Joseph McCarthy; Additional Lyrics and Music, Charles Gaynor, Jack Lloyd, Wally Harper, Otis Clements; Director, Gower Champion; Musical Numbers Staged by Peter Gennaro; Production and Costum…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1973 74 Season, v. 30 (Willis).txt

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