Also credited on2 works
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In the literature8 passages
- The musical’s initial production underwent a difficult break-in period on the road. When it first opened in Detroit in April 1924, the reviews were encouraging but the attendance wasn’t. Producer H.H. Frazee then took drastic steps. He ordered composer Vincent Youmans and lyricist Irving Caesar (who had replaced Otto Harbach for most of t…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
- Songs: “Join the Navy”; “Harbor of My Heart”; “Lucky Bird”; “Looloo”; “Why, Oh Why?”; “Sometimes I’m Happy” (lyric: Irving Caesar); Hallelujah”ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
- W RITERS : M. H. Musselman, Allen Rivkin (additional dialogue, Lew Brown), based on a play by Damon Runyon and Irving Caesarebooks/Kellow, Brian/Ethel Merman_ A Life - Brian Kellow.txt
- 1919 – The Capitol Revue Featuring 50 girls with electric lights on their shoes introducing George Gershwin and Irving Caesar’s ‘Swanee’; shoes boffo, no one notices song.ebooks/Steyn, Mark/Broadway Babies Say Goodnight_ Musicals Then and Now - Mark Steyn.txt
- ‘Which comes first? That’s all baloney,’ says Irving Caesar. ‘Baloney! George Gershwin and I wrote “Swanee” in five minutes. Five minutes, I tell you! Now, when everything’s happening that fast, who knows who does what to whom when?’ebooks/Steyn, Mark/Broadway Babies Say Goodnight_ Musicals Then and Now - Mark Steyn.txt
- Vincent Youmans showed what he thought of that lyric by recycling the tune, with new words by Irving Caesar, as ‘Sometimes I’m Happy’.ebooks/Steyn, Mark/Broadway Babies Say Goodnight_ Musicals Then and Now - Mark Steyn.txt
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- What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
- Any staging. This name appears in no production cast list we hold — 1,877 of 7,139 people are in that position, most of them writers, composers and designers rather than performers.
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