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| 1914 | New Amsterdam Theatre Original. December 8, 1914 · R. H. Burnside | 175 performances |
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In 1911, at the age of 23, Irving Berlin had the entire country ragtime crazy with “Alexander’s Ragtime Band.” Three years later, he wrote his first Broadway score (out of a total of 21) which was the first to feature ragtime. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p44
There was also a curious interpolation from the Irving Berlin songbook, as the revue included “Office Hours,” which was the opening number from his 1914 Broadway musical Watch Your Step . book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p641
Berlin saw his first full Broadway score presented. The show was Watch Your Step and presented the song “Play a Simple Melody.” book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p88
In songs that ranged throughout his career, most famously “Play a Simple Melody” from Watch Your Step (1914), “You’re Just in Love” from Call Me Madam (1950), and his final hurrah as a composer, “An Old-Fashioned Wedding” from the 1966 revival of Annie Get Your Gun book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p292
A follow-up to WATCH YOUR STEP [December 8, 1914], not quite as successful but with a more satisfying score—including Berlin’s jaunty I Love a Piano. book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p71
Watch Your Step (1914), for example, managed to do this so well that critics were totally confused by the piece at the premiere. One called it "glorified vaudeville," another a "musical extravaganza," while the New York Times, which began by considering it a revue, finally conceded "so many things have been called musi… book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p158
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