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Garrick Gaieties

Shows · Garrick Gaieties

The Garrick Gaieties was an impudent, high-spirited modestly mounted revue created by and featuring young members of the Theatre Guild company to help raise money for tapestries at the Guild’s new Guild Theatre on West 52nd Street. The entertainment, however, served equally as a showcase for the talents of the songwriting team of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, whose score incluted their first hit, “Manhattan.” This…

Opened
1925
Performances
211
Type
Revue
Era
Early
Music: Richard RodgersLyrics: Lorenz Hart

Productions3 on Broadway

1925 Garrick Theatre Original. June 8, 1925 · Philip Loeb 211 performances
1926 Guild Theatre Revival. May 10, 1926 174 performances
1930 Guild Theatre Revival. June 4, 1930 · Philip Loeb 158 performances

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In the literature14 passages

Brent, Romney Garrick Gaieties, The, 46 Little Show, The, 67 book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p353

He began his career as a choreographer for the original Garrick Gaieties. During the production of that historic revue, he met Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, and together they wrote seven Broadway musicals, including their first, Dearest Enemy, and A Connecticut Yankee. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p21

others, by the accident of having been born too late, begin with songs from the early Garrick Gaieties. book:encyclopedia-of-theatre-music-a-comprehensive-listing-of-lewine-richard-simon-al#p11

**Manhattan—for initial publication see GARRICK GAIETIES [Ist] [May 17, 1925] book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p116

Duke and Harburg also wrote additional songs (unpublished) for the post-Broadway tour of this final GARRICK GAIETIES. book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p189

“Manhattan” (Garrick Gaieties [First Edition], 1925; lyric by Lorenz Hart, music by Richard Rodgers) book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p39

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