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Blue Eyes

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Blue Eyes is a musical composed by Jerome Kern, with a book and lyrics by Guy Bolton and Graham John. Orchestrations were by Robert Russell Bennett, and the original producer was Lee Ephraim.

Opened
1921
Performances
44
Type
Musical
Era
Early
Music: Z. Leon Errol, Ray PerkinsLyrics: LeRoy Clemens, Ray PerkinsBook: LeRoy Clemens, Leon Errol

Productions1 on Broadway

1921 Casino Theatre Original. February 21, 1921 · Leon Errol 44 performances

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In the literature5 passages

Blue Eyes (2/21/21; 48 performances) starred Fields and Delyle Alda. They repeated their teaming with the Fields production Snapshots of 1921 (6/2/21; 44 performances) that same year. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p187

'Weeping Willow Tree’—see BLUE EYES book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p79

“Blue Eyes”—revised version of “All Lanes Must Reach A Turning” from DEAR SIR [September 23, 1924] book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p85

All Lanes Must Reach a Turning—see BLUE EYES [April 27, 1928] Weeping Willow Tree—see BLUE EYES book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p55

'The song originally appeared in a failed Kern musical from 1928 called Blue Eyes where it was titled ‘Do I Do Wrong?’ book:dominic-mchugh-the-oxford-handbook-of-musical-theatre-screen-adaptations-2019-ox#p68

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