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Oh, Kay! (1994 studio recording)

Oh, Kay!

Shows · Oh, Kay!

The action takes place at the home of Jimmy Winter (Oscar Shaw) in the imaginary town of Beachampton, Long Island. Jimmy is about to wed when he discovers that he has fallen in love with Kay Denham, who is posing as a cook in his house to be near the hooch that her brother, a titled English bootlegger, has stashed in Jimmy’s cellar.

Opened
1926
Performances
256
Type
Musical
Era
Early
Music: George GershwinLyrics: Ira GershwinBook: Guy Bolton & P. G. Wodehouse

Productions4 on Broadway

1926 Imperial Theatre Original. November 8, 1926 · John Harwood 256 performances
1927 Transfer Theatre not recorded.
1928 Century Theatre Revival. January 2, 1928 · Harry Howell 16 performances
1990 Richard Rodgers Theatre Revival. November 1, 1990 · Dan Siretta 77 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.

Licensing 2 entries

US Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available
UK Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available

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In the literature31 passages

David Merrick returned to Broadway in 1990 with a revival of the Gershwins's musical Oh, Kay!, but it ran for only 77 performances. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p203

Gertrude Lawrence didn’t make her entrance in Oh, Kay! until forty minutes into the first act. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p240

Gershwin shows that, in revival, have been transformed into barely recognizable but highly accessible and commercially successful adaptations (My One and Only [1983], Oh, Kay! [199 book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p41

The conclusion of the Wedding Dream (including the Mendelssohn Endelssohn and Lohengrin and Bear It material) is borrowed from another wedding song, “Bride and Groom,” in the act I finale of Ira’s collaboration with his brother George, Oh, Kay! (1926), starring Lawrence as Lady Kay. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p653

Oh, Kay!, with a score by George and Ira Gershwin (including \"Someone to Watch over Me\") and starring Gertrude Lawrence, opens at the Imperial Theater. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p19

a 1978 Donald Saddler/Buster Davis/Raoul Péne du Bois mounting of the Gershwins’ Oh, Kay!, which shuttered on the road, and the 1975 Buster Davis/Raoul Péne du Bois fiasco Doctor Jazz, starring Bobby Van as the good doctor himself. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p675

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