Productions2 on Broadway
| 1927 | 46th Street Theatre Original. September 6, 1927 · Edgar MacGregor | 551 performances |
| 1974 | St James Theatre Revival. December 23, 1974 · Donald Saddler | 16 performances |
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Licensing 3 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| US | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
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In the literature10 passages
After collaborating on musical comedies about football (Good News!)and boxing (Hold Everything!), DeSylva, Brown and Henderson followed up with Follow Thru, which was about golf. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p91
GOOD NEWS! was a mindless football musical in the LEAVE IT TO JANE [Kern: August 28, 1917] tradition; “The Best Things In Life Are Free” and “The Varsity Drag” were hits in the DeSylva, Brown, and Henderson tradition. book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p567
Consider the fate of the four musical comedies of the 1920s to receive over five hundred performances, Sally (1920), Shuffle Along (1921), Sunny (1925) and Good News! (1927). book:cambridge-companion-to-the-musical-cambridge-companions-to-music-the-the-cambrid#p155
The fourth hit musical comedy of the 1920s, Good News! (lyrics by DeSylva and Brown, music by Henderson), alone managed to have a future on the wicked stage, albeit radically transformed. Thus the 1974 revival altered the setting, plot and book, raided other DeSylva book:cambridge-companion-to-the-musical-cambridge-companions-to-music-the-the-cambrid#p156
Good News! provides a useful starting point to introduce another lasting legacy of 1920s and 30s musical comedies: films. book:cambridge-companion-to-the-musical-cambridge-companions-to-music-the-the-cambrid#p157
Imagine, say, Alfred Drake in Good News! , Barbara Cook in Leave It To Me! This new kind of musical star might take a showy role or blend into an ensemble, as Cook did in Bock and Harnick’s She Loves Me (1963), albeit as the show’s pivotal character. book:anything-goes-a-history-of-american-musical-theatre-ethan-mordden#p275
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