Tip-Toes

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Gershwin was chosen for this Russian operetta, which opened just two days after TIP-TOES [December 28, 1925]. The result was successful but pedestrian. book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p150

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

Among their songs that went on to become pop standards: “That Certain Feeling,” “Do, Do, Do,” “Someone to Watch Over Me,” “Sweet and Lowdown,” “’S Wonderful,” “How Long Has This Been Going On?,” “Soon,” “Strike Up the Band,” “But Not for Me,” “Embraceable You,” “Bidin’ My Time,” and “I Got Rhythm.” book:the-melody-lingers-on-the-great-songwriters-and-their-movie-hemming-roy-new-york#p72

The Gershwin’s Tip-Toes and The Coconuts (starring the Marx Brothers) were all set in Florida. book:a-history-of-the-american-musical-theatre-no-business-like-nathaniel-hurwitz-tay#p131

A third, the story of a little variety performer known as Tip-Toes and her two acts of ups and downs on the way to wealth, social position, and an American fairy prince, was a vehicle for the delicious dancing soubrette Queenie Smith, but at the other end of the scale there was Oh, Kay! book:the-musical-a-concise-history-second-edition-ga-nzl-kurt-findlay-jamie-2-2022010#p203

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