Productions2 on Broadway
| 1914 | Knickerbocker Theatre Original. August 24, 1914 · J. A. E. Malone | 120 performances |
| 1915 | Knickerbocker Theatre Return-Engagement. August 9, 1915 · J. A. E. Malone | 24 performances |
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They Didn’t Believe Me, premiere in The Girl from Utah (8/24/14; 120 performances), with a lyric by Herbert Reynolds. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p298
Smith’s greatest musical successes—Robin Hood, The Spring Maid, Sweethearts, Watch Your Step, Countess Maritza, The Girl from Utah, and The Rich Mr. Hoggenheimer—were written in collaboration with such composers as Ludwig Englander, Reginald De Koven, Victor Herbert, John Philip Sousa, Robert Hood Bowers, Gus Edwards,… book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p521
Two of these, “How’d You Like to Spoon with Me?” interpolated into The Earl and the Girl (1905), and “They Didn’t Believe Me” from The Girl from Utah (1914), remain among his best known. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p50
His song “They Didn’t Believe Me” from The Girl from Utah (1914) garnered him great fame. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p212
Donald Brian—star of the American MERRY WIDOW [October 21, 1907|—and Julia Sanderson played together in several Kern shows; he was to introduce Kern’s biggest early hit, ““They Didn’t Believe Me,” in THE GIRL FROM UTAH [August 24, 1914]. book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p44
\nWe'll Take Care Of You All (Refugee Song)” (lyric by Harry B. Smith)—criginally used (cut) in THE GIRL FROM UTAH [August 24, 1914] book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p53
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