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Hit the Deck

Hit The Deck!

Shows · Hit The Deck!

Vincent Youmans’ Hit the Deck! was second only to No, No, Nanette as the most popular of the composer’s 12 Broadway musicals. Based on the 1922 play Shore Leave, the show was about a Newport, Rhode Island, coffee-shop owner known as Looloo (Louise Groody, the previous Nanette), who is so totally smitten with sailor Bilge Smith (Charles King) that she follows him all the way to China and even spends her inheritance to…

Opened
1927
Performances
352
Type
Musical
Era
Early
Music: Vincent YoumansLyrics: Clifford Grey & Leo RobinBook: Herbert Fields

Productions1 on Broadway

1927 Belasco Theatre Original. April 25, 1927 · Alexander Leftwich 352 performances

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Licensing 1 entry

UK Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals available

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In the literature3 passages

The plot of Follow the Fleet (1936), like that of The Gay Divorcée, is also loosely derived from a Broadway show, Hit the Deck! from 1927, with music by Vincent Youmans. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p199

The plot of Follow the Fleet (1936), like that of The Gay Divorcée , is also loosely derived from a Broadway show, Hit the Deck! from 1927, with music by Vincent Youmans (also the principal composer of the first of the Fred and Ginger films, Flying Down to Rio ). With The Gay Divorcée , at least one song was composed b… book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-to-sondheim-and-lloyd-web#p199

Youmans enjoyed little more than a decade of stage work, including two huge hits, Wildflower (1923) and Hit the Deck! (1927). book:anything-goes-a-history-of-american-musical-theatre-ethan-mordden#p137

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