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Take A Chance

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Shows · Take A Chance

Retitled Take a Chance — to indicate something of the risks involved — the show was now an old-fashioned book musical concerned with a romance between the leading man and leading lady (Whiting and June Knight) who are appearing in a revue about American history called Humpty Dumpty.

Opened
1932
Performances
243
Type
Musical
Era
Early
Music: Richard A. Whiting, Nacio Herb Brown, Vincent YoumansLyrics: B. G. DeSylvaBook: B. G. DeSylva, Laurence Schwab, Sid Silvers

Productions1 on Broadway

1932 Apollo Theatre Original. November 26, 1932 · Edgar MacGregor 243 performances

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In the literature11 passages

The first Gems of the Town premiered with the film Take a Chance. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p541

Youmans’s last Broadway show was Take a Chance (11/26/32: 243 performances). He was asked to come in to bolster the score by Richard Whiting. Nacio Herb Brown, and B. G. De Sylva. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p598

TAKE A CHANCE was transformed into a fair-sized hit, though Youmans’s contributions (except the revivalist Rise “n Shine) were overshadowed by HUMPTY DUMPTY leftover Eadie Was a Lady. book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p112

Note that the music for “The Bowery” (aka “Blue Bowery”) was heard as “My Lover” (with a new lyric by B. G. “Buddy” DeSylva) for Take a Chance, where it was performed during the tryout before being cut prior to New York (“My Lover” is available on at least three collections of Youmans’s music; book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p103

As Humpty Dumpty, Take a Chance underwent a tumultuous tryout and was all but written off as one of the season’s first failures. But rewriting, recasting, and the last-minute addition of Vincent Youmans to the creative team resulted in a hit that became the season’s third-longest-running musical. book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p252

Take a Chance was the last new Broadway musical to feature music by Youmans. book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p253

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