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Introduction: Our changing musical theater -- The American musical theatre. George Abbott -- Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The Pajama Game ; Damn Yankees -- Harold Arlen. Hooray for What? ; Bloomer Girl ; St. Louis Woman ; House of Flowers ; Jamaica -- Irving Berlin. Watch Your Step ; Yip, Yip, Yaphank ; The Ziegfeld Follies, 1919, 1920, 1927 ; The Music Box Revue, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924 ; The Cocoanuts ; Face the Music ; As Thousands Cheer ; Louisiana Purchase ; This Is the Army ; Annie Get Your Gun ; Miss Liberty ; Call Me Madam -- Leonard Bernstein. On the Town ; Wonderful Town ; Candide ; West Side Story -- Marc Blitzstein. The Cradle Will Rock ; Regina -- Guy Bolton -- David Braham. The Mulligan Guard's Ball, and other Harrigan and Hart Burlesques ; Gene Buck -- Abe Burrows -- Ivan Caryll. The Pink Lady ; Oh! Oh! Delphine ; Chin-Chin -- George M. Cohan. Little Johnny Jones ; Forty-five Minutes from Broadway ; George Washington, Jr. ; The Little Millionaire ; Hello Broadway -- Betty Comden and Adolph Green -- J. Fred Coots. Sadly, Irene and Mary ; Artists and models, 1924, 1925 ; A Night in Paris ; Sons O' Guns -- Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay -- Reginald de Koven. Robin Hood ; Rob Roy ; The Highwayman -- De Sylva, Brown and Henderson. George White's Scandals, 1925, 1926, 1928 ; Good News ; Hold Everything ; Follow Through ; Flying High -- Vernon Duke. Walk a Little Faster ; Cabin in the Sky ; Banjo Eyes -- Ludwig Englander. The Passing Show ; The Casino Girl ; Belle of Bohemia ; The Strollers ; The Rich Mr. Hoggenheimer -- Sammy Fain and Irving Kahal. Hellzapoppin' ; Sons O' Fun -- Herbert and Dorothy Fields, Joseph Fields -- Rudolf Friml. The Firefly ; High-Jinks ; Sometime ; Rose Marie ; The Vagabond King ; The Three Musketeers -- George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin. La, La, Lucille ; George White's Scandals, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924 ; Lady Be Good ; Tip Toes ; A Song of the Flame ; Oh Kay! ; Funny Face ; Rosalie ; Show Girl ; Strike Up the Band ; Girl Crazy ; Of Thee I Sing ; Let 'Em Eat Cake ; Porgy and Bess -- Jay Gorney. Sketch Book ; Earl Carroll Vanities, 1930 ; Meet the People -- Oscar Hammerstein II. Carmen Jones -- Otto Harbach -- E. Y. Harburg -- Moss Hart -- Victor Herbert. The Wizard of the Nile ; The Serenade ; The Fortune Teller ; Babes in Toyland ; It Happened in Nordland ; Mlle. Modiste ; The Red Mill ; Naughty Marietta ; Sweethearts -- Louis A. Hirsch. Vera Violetta ; The Passing Show, 1912 ; The Ziegfeld Follies, 1915, 1916, 1918, 1922 ; Going Up ; Mary ; The Greenwich Village Follies, 1922, 1923 -- Karl Hoschna. The Three Twins ; Madame Sherry ; Wall Street Girl -- Raymond Hubbell. The Runaways ; Fantana ; The Ziegfeld Follies, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1917 ; Hip-Hip-Hooray -- George S. Kaufman -- Gustave A. Kerker. Castle in the Air ; The Belle of New York ; A Chinese Honeymoon ; The Social Whirl -- Jerome Kern. The Girl from Utah ; The Princess Theatre Shows ; Nobody Home ; Very Good Eddie ; Oh Boy! ; Oh Lady, Lady! ; Leave It to Jane ; Sally ; Good Morning, Dearie ; Stepping Stones ; Sunny ; Criss Cross ; Show Boat ; Sweet Adeline ; The Cat and the Fiddle ; Music in the Air ; Roberta -- |
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Manuel Klein. The Hippodrome Extravaganzas ; A Society Circus ; Pioneer Days ; The Auto Race ; Sporting Days ; A Trip to Japan ; The International Cup and the Ballet of Niagara ; Around the World ; Under Many Flags ; America ; Wars of the World -- Burton Lane. Hold On to Your Hats ; Laffing Room Only ; Finian's Rainbow -- John La Touche -- Frank Loesser. Where's Charley? ; Guys and Dolls ; The Most Happy Fella -- Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner. Brigadoon ; Paint Your Wagon ; My Fair Lady -- Gustav Leders. King Dodo ; The Prince of Pilsen ; The Sho-Gun ; The Fair Co-Ed -- Jimmy McHugh and Harold Adamson. Blackbirds of 1928 ; Hello Daddy ; As the Girls Go -- Cole Porter. Fifty Million Frenchmen ; The Gay Divorce ; Anything Goes ; Leave It to Me ; Du Barry Was a Lady ; Panama Hattie ; Let's Face It ; Something for the Boys ; Mexican Hayride ; Kiss Me, Kate ; Can-Can ; Silk Stockings -- Richard Rodgers I. Rodgers and Hart. The Garrick Gaieties, 1925, 1926 ; Dearest Enemy ; The Girl Friend ; Peggy-Ann ; A Connecticut Yankee ; Present Arms ; America's Sweetheart ; Jumbo ; On Your Toes ; Babes in Arms ; I'd Rather Be Right ; I Married an Angel ; The Boys from Syracuse ; Pal Joey ; By Jupiter -- Richard Rodgers II. Rodgers and Hammerstein. Oklahoma! ; Carousel ; Allegro ; South Pacific ; The King and I ; Me and Juliet ; Pipe Dream ; Flower Drum Song ; The Sound of Music -- Sigmund Romberg. The Passing Show, 1914, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1923, 1924 ; The Blue Paradise ; Robinson Crusoe, Jr. ; Maytime ; Sinbad ; Blossom Time ; Bombo ; The Student Prince ; The Desert Song ; The New Moon ; May Wine ; Up in Central Park ; The Girl in Pink Tights -- Harold Rome. Pins and Needles ; Call Me Mister ; Wish You Were Here ; Fanny ; Destry Rides Again -- Harry Ruby. Helen of Troy, New York ; The Ramblers ; Five O'Clock Girl ; Good Boy ; Animal Crackers -- Morrie Ryskind -- Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz. The Little Show, 1929, 1930 ; Three's a Crowd ; The Band Wagon ; Inside U.S.A. ; A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ; By the Beautiful Sea -- Jean Schwartz and William Jerome. Piff, Paff, Pouf ; The Passing Show, 1913, 1921 ; Artists and Models, 1923 -- A. Baldwin Sloane. The Wizard of Oz ; The Summer Widowers ; The Hen Pecks ; Ladies First ; The Greenwich Village Follies, 1919, 1920 -- Harry B. Smith -- Dave Stamper. Take the Air ; The Lovely Lady -- John Stromberg. The Art of Maryland, and other Weber and Fields burlesques -- Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn. High Button Shoes ; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ; Two on the Aisle ; Bells are Ringing ; Gypsy -- Harry Tierney. Irene ; Up She Goes ; Kid Boots ; Rio Rita -- Kurt Weill. Johnny Johnson ; Knickerbocker Holiday ; Lady in the Dark ; One Touch of Venus ; Street Scene ; Love Life ; Lost in the Stars -- Richard A. Whiting. Scandals, 1919 ; Take a Chance -- P. G. Wodehouse -- Robert Wright and George Forrest. Song of Norway ; Kismet -- Vincent Youmans. Two Little Girls in Blue ; Wildflower ; No, No, Nanette ; Hit the Deck ; Rainbow -- Appendixes. Some other outstanding musical productions: 1866-1958 ; A chronology of the American musical theater ; Some outstanding songs of the American musical theater (and the productions in which they were introduced). |
