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| 1926 | Vanderbilt Theatre Original. March 17, 1926 · John Harwood | 301 performances |
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In the literature18 passages
“A Star’s First Night” (sketch by Robert MacGunigle; as “The Girl Friend,” the sketch had originally been seen in the 1932 revue Walk a Little Faster ) (The Star: Xenia Bank; The Maid: Florence Bray; The Star’s Friend: Beatrice Lillie) book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p275
Herbert Fields wrote the libretto to his father’s production of Rodgers and Hart’s The Girl Friend (3/17/ 26; 301 performances), a typical 1920s musical. The title tune was a big hit. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p187
Early musicals included The Girl Friend (1926), A Connecticut Yankee (1927), On Your Toes (1936), Babes in Arms (1937), The Boys from Syracuse (1938), and Pal Joey (1940). Rodgers joined with Oscar Hammerstein II in 1943 for Oklahoma!, which the new team followed up with such works as Carousel (1945), South Pacific (19… book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p1104
including the sketch “The Girl Friend,” in which she appeared as an unwelcome friend who barges into a leading lady’s dressing room and proceeds to give her unwanted and unhelpful advice) but felt that Clark and McCullough should have been allowed to use their old material because here their sketches were lacking book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p260
During the national tour of At Home Abroad, Lillie’s famous dressing room sketch “The Girl Friend” by Robert MacGunigle was interpolated. She had earlier performed it in Walk a Little Faster, and as “A Star’s First Night” reprised it for her 1952 revue An Evening with Beatrice Lillie (which featured Reginald Gardiner,… book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p401
According to Mordden, no fewer than fifteen (recte sixteen – he does not include The Girl Friend ) of the twenty-six Broadway musicals exported to London were musical comedies. Sally , The Blue Kitten , Lady , Be Good! , No, No, Nanette , Sunny , Tip-Toes , The Girl Fri book:cambridge-companion-to-the-musical-cambridge-companions-to-music-the-the-cambrid#p477
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