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Whoopee

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Eddie Cantor was an eye-popping, bouncing comedian who had appeared in five Ziegfeld Follies before starring in this lavish Ziegfeld book musical. In the story, adapted from the 1923 play The Nervous Wreck, hypochondriac Henry Williams, in California for his health, becomes unwittingly involved with the daughter of a ranch owner whom he helps escape from marryin the local sheriff. After comic adventures that involve…

Opened
1928
Performances
379
Type
Musical
Era
Early
Music: Walter DonaldsonLyrics: Gus KahnBook: William Anthony McGuire

Productions2 on Broadway

1928 New Amsterdam Theatre Original. December 4, 1928 · William Anthony McGuire 379 performances
1979 Anta Playhouse Revival. February 14, 1979 · Frank Corsaro 204 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.

Licensing 2 entries

US Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available
UK Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available

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In the literature22 passages

One of the 1920SS most cherished musicals came to this theatre on December 4, 1928: Whoopee, which proved to be Eddie Cantor's greatest hit. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p30

Charles Repole in a revival of Eddie Cantor's 1920s hit Whoopee (1979), from the Goodspeed Opera House; and Maggie Smith in Tom Stoppard's Night and Day (1979). Derek Jacobi starred in a Russian drama, The Suicide, in 1980, for 60 performances. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p220

His The Nervous Wreck (10/9/23; 271 performances) was an immediate hit with Otto Kruger, Edward Arnold, June Walker, and William Holden in the cast. The play was later adapted into the musical Whoopee. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p244

Another was the Goodspeed Opera Company’s revival of Whoopee! (1979), which starred Charles Repole. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p569

Ziegfeld also produced significant book musicals, including Rio Rita (1927, which opened his Ziegfeld Theater), the history-making Show Boat (1927), Rosalie (1928), The Three Musketeers (1928), Whoopee (1928), and Bitter Sweet (1929). book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p423

Ruth Etting, who attracted notice with ‘“Love Me Or Leave Me” in WHOOPEE [PART 4: December 4, 1928], sang Arlen’s first hit. book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p284

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