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Cole Porter

COLE PORTER

  (1891 - 1964)
Nationality:    USA
email:    n/a     Website:    Click here

Literary Agent:    Cole Porter Trust, Room 13130, 1285 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10019. Telephone: 212 373 2325

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         Aladdin         And the Villian Still Pursued Her         Anything Goes         Around the World         Ben Bagley's the Decline And Fall Of the Entire World As Seen Through the Eyes Of Cole Porter         Black And White Ball, The         Can-Can         Cora         Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen Through the Eyes of Cole Porter         Du Barry Was A Lady         Ever Yours         Fifty Million Frenchmen         Gay Divorce         Greek To You         Greenwich Village Follies of 1924         Happy New Year         Hitchy-Koo Of 1919         Hitchy-Koo Of 1922         Jubilee         Kaleidoscope, The         Kiss Me Kate         Leave It To Me         Let's Do It         Let's Face It!         Love, Linda         Mexican Hayride         Mr Shakespeare & Mr Porter         New Yorkers, The         Nymph Errant         Out Of This World         Panama Hattie         Paranoia or Chester of the Yale Dramatic Association         Paris         Pot Of Gold         Red Hot and Cole         Red, Hot And Blue!         Revue des Ambassadeurs, La         Roman Holiday         See America First         Seven Lively Arts         Silk Stockings         Something For the Boys         Star Dust         Wake Up And Dream         You Never Know
Aladdin

Aladdin
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Notes:
Music And lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Peter Coke; Addition material by Dennis Goodwin. Originally made As A television programme broadcast in 1958

1st Produced:
Coliseum, London     17 Dec 1959

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
Original cast recording: DRG (15027 1960

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Genre:
2act Pantomime

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large cast

Further Reference:
Wearing - the London Stage 59.277

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And the Villian Still Pursued Her

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Music And lyrics by Cole Porter; book by T Gaillard Thomas II

1st Produced:
New Haven Lawn Club     24 Apr 1912

Organisations:
Yale University Dramatic Association

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Anything Goes

Anything Goes
Billy Crocker falls in love with a young girl he shares a taxi with. His boss is going to England aboard the S.S. American and Billy goes to see him off. He spots the young girl going aboard - she is heiress Hope Harcourt travelling with her mother and fiance. Billy determines to get on board and is aided by two members of Snake Eyes Johnson's gang who have disguised themselves as a clergyman and a missionary worker. Snake Eyes has not turned up so they give his passport and ticket to Billy. On board Billy professes his love for Hope and she for him but says that she must marry her fiance for financial reasons. the ship's captain receives a wire to alert him to the fact that a wanted gangster is on board

Notes:
Music by Cole Porter; Lyrics by Cole Porter; Book by Guy Bolton And P. G. Wodehouse; Book revised by Howard Lindsay And Russell Crouse

1st Produced:
Alvin Theater, New York     21 Nov 1934

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
Original cast recording: Smithsonian (R-007) 1934

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Around the World

Around the World
adaptation of Around the World in Eighty Days.

Notes:
Music by Cole Porter; Lyrics by Cole Porter; Incidental score by Cole Porter; Book Adapted by Orson Welles; Based on the novel by Jules Verne

1st Produced:
Adelphi Theatre, NY     1946

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large cast

Further Reference:
-

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Ben Bagley's the Decline And Fall Of the Entire World As Seen Through the Eyes Of Cole Porter

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written by Cole Porter, Bud Mccreery And Ben Bagley

1st Produced:
Dallas Theater Center, TX, USA >>>     1966-1967 Season

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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-

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Black And White Ball, The

Synopsis:
In 1960's New York, Leah enters a dilapidated but elegant ballroom, searching for answers to a mystery that has haunted her since childhood. Who murdered Jay St John, a celebrated author and her beloved step-father, twenty years ago in this very room? And can she clear the cloud of suspicion over her mother's head? She summons the ghost of Jay to help her remember. . .

Notes:
Written by Warner Brown with music by Cole Porter. World premiere, commissioned by the Cole Porter estate

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Organisations:
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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  doubling

Further Reference:
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Can-Can

Can-Can
1893 Paris La Mome Pistache owns a dance hall in Montmartre which is in danger of being closed down by a self righteous judge who is scandalised by the new dance that is being performed there - the can-can. He sends the police to arrest the dancers - but the policemen like the dancers and do not testify. So the judge decides to go himself and collect evidence. He meets La Mome and they fall in love but he still goes ahead and collects his evidence and has La Mome and her dancing girls arrested

Notes:
Music by Cole Porter; Lyrics by Cole Porter; Book by Abe Burrows

1st Produced:
Shubert Theatre,     07 May 1953

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Tams-Witmark, 757 Third Ave., New York, NY,    

Music:
Original cast recording: Capitol (92064) 1953

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Cora

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Music And lyrics by Cole Porter; book by T Gaillard Thomas II

1st Produced:
Delta Kappa Epislon Fraternity House, Yale University     28 Nov 1911

Organisations:
Phi Opera Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen Through the Eyes of Cole Porter

Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen Through the Eyes of Cole Porter
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Notes:
by Bud McCreery; Music And lyrics by Cole Porter

1st Produced:
Square East Theater, New York     33/1965

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
Original cast recording: Painted Smiles (124) 1965

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Du Barry Was A Lady

Du Barry Was A Lady
Louis Blore a washroom attendant wins the lottery and quits his job. Louis is in love with nightclub singer May. However, May is in love with Alex but Alex is married to Ann. Louis' replacement suggests that he drug Alex and get him out of the way. Unfortunately Louis drinks the drugged drink and collapses. He believes himself to be back in the court of Louis XV and he is King Louis. May is Madame du Barry and Alex a peasant. When he comes to he realises that May really does love Alex and he uses his winnings to pay for a divorce for Alex. Penniless he luckily gets his old job back

Notes:
Music And lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Herbert Fields; B G DeSylva

1st Produced:
46th Street Theatre, New York     06 Dec 1939

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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-

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Ever Yours

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Music And lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Guy Bolton. Based on the stage play "the Spell" by Lilli Hatvany

1st Produced:
Unproduced     1933

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Fifty Million Frenchmen

Fifty Million Frenchmen
Peter Forbes a young American millionaire is in Paris with two friends Billy and Michael. He bets them that he can live without his money for a month and at the end of the month propose to LouLou Carroll. LouLou is in Paris with her parents and friend Joyce. Peter takes a job as a tour guide - he is not a success but he catches the eye of the wealthy widow Violet Hildegard. Everyone goes to the races. Louis Pernasse owner of the Chateau Madrid night club tells Peter that the race is fixed. Peter borrows money from LouLou to bet on the race. When his horse looses he tears up his ticket. LouLou thinks he has done this so as not to share his winnings and storms off. then there is an announcement that the winner has been disqualified and Peter's horse has been placed first. LouLou's parents have arranged for her to marry a poor man - but one with a title. they hold the engagement party at the Chateau Madrid where Peter is now working as a dance host. Billy and Michael arrive with Joyce and Violet. LouLou says she will not marry the Grand Duke and she overhears a conversation that clears up her mistake about the ticket. She and Peter become engaged and Peter wins his bet as it is the last day of his month

Notes:
Music by Cole Porter; lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Herbert Fields

1st Produced:
Lyric Theatre, New York     27 Nov 1929

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
Studio cast: New World (80417) 1991

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Gay Divorce

Gay Divorce
Guy Holden an American writer travelling in Britain meets and falls madly in love with a young woman called Mimi. She disappears and to take his mind off her his friend, lawyer Teddy Egbert takes him to Brighton for the weekend. Teddy has arranged for a professional co-respondent to be seen with his client so that she can get a divorce from her boring husband, Robert. the client turns out to be Mimi and she thinks Guy is the hired co-respondent. When Mimi's husband arrives he refuses to believe that she has been in a hotel room with another man. But the waiter lets slip that Robert has been staying at the hotel with another woman.

Notes:
Music And lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Dwight Taylor

1st Produced:
Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York     29 Nov 1932

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Greek To You

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Music And lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Russel Crouse; Howard Lindsay

1st Produced:
Unproduced     1937

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Greenwich Village Follies of 1924

Greenwich Village Follies of 1924
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Notes:
Music And lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Arthur Caesar; Irving Caesar; Lew Fields

1st Produced:
Shubert Theatre, New York     16 Sep 1924

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Happy New Year

Synopsis:
the text of "Holiday" with Cole Porter songs inserted

Notes:
Music And lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Philip Barry

1st Produced:
Stratford Festival     1979

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Hitchy-Koo Of 1919

Hitchy-Koo Of 1919
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Notes:
Music And lyrics by Cole Porter; book by George V Hobart

1st Produced:
Liberty Theatre, New York     06 Oct 1919

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Revue

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Hitchy-Koo Of 1922

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Music And lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Harold Atteridge

1st Produced:
Shubert Theatre, Philadelphia     10 Oct 1922

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Revue

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Jubilee

Jubilee
the Royal family of a small European country hear that a revolution is impending so abandon their country to pursue their own interests. the King dallies with party girl Eva Standing. the Queen takes up with a former Olympic swimmer turned Hollywood actor. the Princess with an actor/playwright and the Prince with a singer. When it is discovered that there was no impending revolution the Royal family is forced back to their royal duties. However, they manage to incorporate their new found friends into their royal lives

Notes:
Music And lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Moss Hart

1st Produced:
Imperial Theatre, New York     12 Oct 1935

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Kaleidoscope, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Music And lyrics by Cole Porter

1st Produced:
Hotel Taft, New Haven     34/1913

Organisations:
Yale University Dramatic Association

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Kiss Me Kate

Kiss Me Kate
the cast of a musical version of "the Taming Of the Shrew" celebrate the opening of their show. Leading lady, Lilli and her ex-husband and leading man, Fred, celebrate the first anniversary of their divorce. Lilli receives a wonderful boquet she thinks it is from Fred. But when she reads the card she realises it is from Fred but the boquet was for one of the other actresses, Lois. Lois is in love with one of the actors in the production, Bill. Bill has been gambling - but he has signed Fred's name to IOUs. the night of the performance. Fred and Lilli bicker and two mobsters turn up wanting money from Fred

Notes:
Music And lyrics by Cole Porter; book by BElla Spewack; Sam Spewack. Based on "the Taming Of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare

1st Produced:
New Century Theatre, New York     30 Dec 1948

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
E. Littler, London 1952   

Music:
Original cast recording: Columbia (SK 60536) 1948

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Leave It To Me

Leave It To Me
Alonzo "Stinky" Goodhue has been made US Ambassador to the Soviet Union. He did not want the job but got it because of his social climbing wife. He would much rather be back in Topeka, Kansas. He thinks that if he messes things up he will be recalled - however, every international incident he gets involved in he manages to resolve. Until that is he tries to get the Soviet Union and the US to be friends and he is recalled

Notes:
Music And lyrics by Cole Porter; book by BElla Spewack; Sam Sewack. In A dispute over who should have top billing - Ethel Merman or Jimmy Durante the crossed names was devised for the poster

1st Produced:
Imperial Theatre, New York     09 Nov 1938

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "Great Musicals of the American Stage volume Two" published by Chilton Books 1976   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Let's Do It

Let's Do It
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Notes:
Music by Noel Coward And Cole Porter; lyrics by Noel Coward And Cole Porter; book by Robin Ray; book by Dick Vosburgh

1st Produced:
Festival Theatre, Chichester     1994

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
Original cast recording: Silva Screen (910) 1994

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  chorus

Further Reference:
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Let's Face It!

Synopsis:
Maggie, Cornelia and Nancy are suspicious of the numerous "hunting trips" their husbands go on. So when the husbands leave they invite over three soldier boys for a party. the soldier's girlfriends find out and crash the party. then the husbands turn up

Notes:
Music by Cole Porter; lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Herbert Fields; book by Dorothy Fields

1st Produced:
Imperial Theatre, New York     29 Oct 1941

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Love, Linda

Synopsis:
With music and lyrics by Cole Porter and book by Stevie Holland and Gary William Friedman, Love, Linda stars Stevie Holland as Linda Porter, the Southern beauty who married the legendary songwriter Cole Porter at the dawn of the roaring twenties. Although Cole Porter was gay, their companionship and love lasted through 35 years of marriage and together they lived a spectacular, glamour-filled life. the score for Love, Linda includes such beloved Porter songs as "So in Love," "In the Still of the Night," "Love for Sale," and "Night and Day." Woven through the compelling narrative of Love, Linda, these songs, and lesser-known Porter gems, unite to tell the story of Linda and Cole's unconventional relationship and great love for each other.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
music And lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Stevie Holland And Gary William Friedman

1st Produced:
Triad, NY     28 Oct 2009

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
60 min Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  musicians

Further Reference:
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Mexican Hayride

Mexican Hayride
Montana a lady bullfighter has just won and is about to throw one of the bull's ears to her boyfriend David the American charge d'affaires when she sees her no good brother-in-law Joe in the crowd. In anger she throws it at him. Joe is feted by the crowd. Joe is involved with a lottery scam and goes on the run - putting on many disguises to elude the police - even dressing as a woman. Joe is caught and sent back to the US and Montana and David live happily ever after

Notes:
Music by Cole Porter; lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Herbert Fields; book by Dorothy Fields

1st Produced:
Winter Garden Theatre, New York     28 Jan 1944

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
Original Broadway cast: Decca 1944

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-

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Further Reference:
Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 15 Page 814

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Mr Shakespeare & Mr Porter

Synopsis:
revival of Mr. Shakespeare & Mr. Porter, the critically-acclaimed melding of the timeless plays of William Shakespeare with the music and lyrics of Broadway great Cole Porter. the production features two different evenings of mini-musicals: Volume 1 ("Hamlet," "Macbeth" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream") runs November 13 - 23; Volume 2 ("Measure for Measure," "Richard III" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream")
- press release

Notes:
adapted by Barbara Vann, music And lyrics by Cole Porter

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large cast

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New Yorkers, The

New Yorkers, The
a musical tour of the high and low life of Manhattan, stopping off at a Park Avenue apartment, a speakeasy, a bootleg distillery, and Reuben's Restaurant. A high society lady falls in love with a bootlegger, the club's headliner falls for the society lady's ex-fiance, the club's torch singer looks for love in all the wrong places, and the club's bouncer couldn't be happier!
- http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/the-new-yorkers_20473/

Notes:
Music by Cole Porter; lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Herbert Fields. Based on A story by Peter Arno And E Ray Goetz

1st Produced:
B S Moss's Broadway Theatre, New York     12 Nov 1930

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
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Nymph Errant

Nymph Errant
Evangeline has just graduated from finishing school in Switzerland. One of their teachers tells her she must experiment. On the train to Calais Evangeline realises she has lost her ticket. the French gentlemen in the carriage offers her a spare one he has - his expected companion did not make it in time to the station. He says he is the owner of the Follies de Paris and perhaps instead of going home to Oxford Evangeline should become a cabaret performer. She remembers what she was told - experiment

Notes:
Music And lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Romney Brent. Based on the novel by James Laver

1st Produced:
Adelphi Theatre, London     06 Oct 1933

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Samuel French Inc, New York   

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Studio cast recording: Angel (54079) 1990

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Out Of This World

Out Of This World
the Greek God Jupiter has become enamoured of a mortal woman an American Helen Kenyon and he comes down from Olympia to find and seduce her. Juno his wife is not best pleased she leaves Olympia to find and thwart him. Mercury Finds Helen and leads her to an inn and Jupiter in the disguise of her husband seduces her. Next morning Helen discovers what has been going on and rejects Jupiter's offer of immortality saying all she needs is the love of her husband

Notes:
Music And lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Reginald Lawrence; Dwight Taylor. Based on "Amphitryon" by Plautus

1st Produced:
New Century Theatre, New York     21 Dec 1950

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Original cast recording: Sony (48223)

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Panama Hattie

Panama Hattie
Hattie Maloney, a nightclub singer in Panama City, tries to fit into the elite world of the American colony to which her fiance, a single parent, Nick Bullett, belongs. Her prospective marriage to Nick hinges on the approval of his precocious 8-year-old daughter, Gerry, as well as that of his boss. Gerry has been chaperoned on her trip from the States by Vivian Budd a "gentleman's gentleman" who gets bent to the breaking point by the wiles of Hattie's best friend Florrie. Nick's boss, an Army officer/engineer, Whitney Randolph, and the girls in the Canal "social set" prove even harder to win over than does Gerry. So what's needed are some major heroics and that is supplied when a plot to blow up the canal is foiled. Helping thwart the "enemy" are three less-than-robust soldiers - Woozy, Skat, and Windy (William Nash). Songs include: "I've Still Got My Health," "We Detest a Fiesta," "Make It Another Old-Fashioned, Please," and "Let's Be Buddies."

Notes:
Music by Cole Porter; lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Herbert Fields; book by B G DeSylvia

1st Produced:
46th Street Theatre, New York     30 Oct 1940

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Studio cast( selected songs from) MCA (10521) 1940

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Paranoia or Chester of the Yale Dramatic Association

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Music, lyrics And book by Cole Porter; Thomas Lawrason Riggs

1st Produced:
Hotel Taft, New Haven     24 Apr 1914

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Yale University Dramatic Association

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Paris

Paris
Mrs. Cora Sabbott, an imperious Massachusetts matron, descends on Paris to thwart the 'unsuitable' marriage of her son
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Music And lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Martin Brown

1st Produced:
Music Box Theatre, New York     08 Oct 1928

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Pot Of Gold

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Music And lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Almet F Jenks Jr

1st Produced:
Delta Kappa Epislon Fraternity House, Yale University     26 Nov 1912

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Red Hot and Cole

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Written with Muriel McAuley And Randy Strawderman music And lyrics by Cole Porter

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Red, Hot And Blue!

Red, Hot And Blue!
Wealthy young widow Nails O'Reilly Duquesne embarks on a search for her boyfriend's former girlfriend. Many years ago Bob Hale's then girlfriend sat on a hot waffle iron - so she can be easily identified. So that she is not aware she is being sort Nails pretends she is running a lottery. the Federal Government declare the lottery unconstitutional

Notes:
Book by Howard Lindsay And Russell Crouse; Music by Cole Porter; Lyrics by Cole Porter

1st Produced:
Alvin Theater, New York     29 Oct 1936

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Revue des Ambassadeurs, La

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Music And lyrics by Cole Porter. Also known As "Troisieme Ambassadeurs Show Of 1928"

1st Produced:
Ambassadeurs Cafe, Paris     15/1928

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Roman Holiday

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Princess Ann is on a European tour and she is bored with it. Whilst in Rome she makes her escape meets a photographer and they have twenty four hours of adventures

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Music and lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Paul Blake; Terry Grossman; Kathy Speer. Based on the movie "Roman Holiday" screenplay by John Dighton, Ian McLellan Hunter, Dalton Trumbo

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The Muny, St Louis, Missouri     09 Jul 2001

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See America First

See America First
An East Coast Senator sends his daughter to a finishing school in the West in the hopes that she will find a "real" man. She has been in touch with a Duke that she met at the opera and he follows her disguised as a cowboy

Notes:
Music And lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Thomas Lawrason Riggs

1st Produced:
Maxine Elliott Theatre, New York     28 Mar 1916

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Seven Lively Arts

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Music And lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Ben Hecht; George S Kaufman

1st Produced:
Ziegfeld Theatre, New York     07 Dec 1944

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Silk Stockings

Silk Stockings
Soviet pianist defects whilst in Paris. He is taken up by an American showbiz agent who wants him to compose movie music. Three Soviet agents are sent to bring him back to Moscow - but they are seduced by the charms of Paris and the West. their superior Ninotchka is dispatched to bring all four back

Notes:
Music by Cole Porter; Lyrics by Cole Porter; Book by George S. Kaufman, Leueen MacGrath And Abe Burrows; Suggested by "Ninotchka" by Melchior Lengyel

1st Produced:
Imperial Theatre     24 Feb 1955

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1st Published:
Tams-Witmark, 757 Third Ave., New York, NY, 1955   

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Original cast recording: RCA (1102) 1955

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Something For the Boys

Something For the Boys
A burlesque queen, a defence worker and a carnival barker all inherit a Texan farm. they decide to turn the farm house into a guest house for soldiers wives. the army brass decide that they are running a very different sort of house

Notes:
Music by Cole Porter; lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Herbert Fields; book by Dorothy Fields

1st Produced:
Alvin Theatre, New York     07 Jan 1943

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Original cast: AEI (004) 1943

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Star Dust

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Music And lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Herbert Fields

1st Produced:
Unproduced     1931

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Wake Up And Dream

Wake Up And Dream
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Music And lyrics by Cole Porter; book by John Hastings Turner

1st Produced:
London Pavilion, London     27 Mar 1929

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You Never Know

You Never Know
Master, Baron von Hummer, and his valet, Gaston, switch places and fall in love with mistress, Mme. Von Baltin, and maid, Maria, who have also switched places. Adding spice to this amorous stew is Ida, the Baron's jilted paramour, and 'the outraged husband'. This work was written as a chamber piece but arrived on Broadway in a much larger version. Not only are we restoring the original libretto, we have restored 10 Cole Porter songs that had been cut." Songs: "I Am Gaston"; "By Candlelight"; "Alpha to Omega"; "At Long Last Love"; "What Is that Tune?"; "For No Rhyme or Reason"; "Let's Put It to Music"; "I'm Back in Circulation"; "I'm Going In For Love"; and "What Shall I Do?"

Notes:
Music by Cole Porter; Lyrics by Cole Porter; Book by Rowland Leigh; Based on the play "By Candlelight" by Siegfried Geyer; Adapted from the Viennese operetta "Bei Kerzenleicht" by Robert Katscher And Karl Farkas

1st Produced:
Winter Garden Theater, New York     21 Sep 1938

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Revival cast recording: Fynsworth Alley (302 062 108 2)

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