Productions1 on Broadway
| 1938 | Winter Garden Theatre Original. September 21, 1938 · Rowland Leigh | 78 performances |
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Licensing 1 entry
| US | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
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In the literature16 passages
Porter’s score produced one evergreen, the controversial “Love for Sale.” Otherwise, the score offered first-rate but generally not well-known numbers that have become favorites with show-music aficionados and saloon singers who specialize in show-tune esoterica. book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p105
Except for “What Will Become of Our England?,” all the songs from the original Broadway production were retained, and four were added to the score: the non-Porter “The Continental” from the film version; two songs from Porter’s 1938 musical You Never Know (“For No Rhyme or Reason” and “From Alpha to Omega”); and “My Lo… book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p255
Complete Lyrics also notes that “My Loulou” wasn’t listed in the program until two days after the New York premiere, but was apparently always part of the score and was heard at the beginning of the scene at the Café Martinique; although “To Get Away” wasn’t listed in the program, it seems to have been part of the “Gay… book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p408
The musical underwent a prolonged and agonizing tryout that included both an overhaul of the script, the constant deletion and addition of songs, and the loss of several cast members. book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p522
Cole Porter bounced back from the debacle You Never Know with the hit Leave It to Me!, a very loose adaptation by Bella and Samuel Spewack of their 1932 comedy Clear All Wires, which played for ninety-three performances at the Times Square Theatre and was later filmed in 1933. book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p539
Revenge with Music (1934; “You and the Night and the Music”); and Cole Porter’s You Never Know (1938; the title song and “What Is That Tune?”). book:the-complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-hardcover-2014-rowman-lit#p411
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