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Stop! Look! Listen!

Shows · Stop! Look! Listen!

A lighthearted musical comedy about a young man who inherits a fortune on the condition that he marry within a year. His search for a bride leads him through a series of romantic misadventures and comic encounters with showgirls, society matrons, and rival suitors.

Opened
1915
Performances
105
Type
Musical
Era
Early
Music: Irving BerlinLyrics: Irving BerlinBook: Harry B. Smith

Productions1 on Broadway

1915 Original Theatre not recorded. · R. H. Burnside 105 performances

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In the literature15 passages

Watch Your Step and Stop! Look! Listen! , after all, had been filled with revue numbers, and even The Cocoanuts (1925), a spoof of Florida land-grabbing with the Marx Brothers, had a story but not a story score. book:anything-goes-a-history-of-american-musical-theatre-ethan-mordden#p161

Her Broadway debut had been a few sea¬ons earlier at the Winter Garden, but Stop! Look! Listen! pushed her into the top brackets. book:revue-a-nostalgic-reprise-of-the-great-broadway-period-baral-robert-author-1st-e#p30

Stop! Look! Listen! appeared in 1915 with two hit songs, “I Love a Piano” and “The Girl on the Magazine.” book:irving-berlin-s-american-musical-theater-broadway-legacies-jeffrey-magee#p13

the titles of Berlin’s first shows captured the telegraphic cadence of commands in the recently constructed subway line. Passengers stepping off the trains had already been exhorted to “Watch Your Step” and “Stop! Look! Listen!” for their safety. book:irving-berlin-s-american-musical-theater-broadway-legacies-jeffrey-magee#p66

Dillingham adopted the same formula for Stop! Look! Listen!, casting a celebrity in a starring role, which is chiefly a magnified version of herself—a point brought home in the program that, like the one for Watch Your Step, identified the heroine by her real name, Gaby Deslys. book:irving-berlin-s-american-musical-theater-broadway-legacies-jeffrey-magee#p69

In fact, by the time she appeared in Stop! Look! Listen!, Deslys had been as much a topic of shows as an actress in them. book:irving-berlin-s-american-musical-theater-broadway-legacies-jeffrey-magee#p70

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