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JEROME KERN
(1885 - 1945)Nationality: USA
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Blue Eyes Cat and the Fiddle, The Gentlemen Unafraid Leave It To Jane Music In The Air Roberta Sally Show Boat Sitting Pretty Sunny Theodore & Co Three Sisters, The Very Warm For MayBlue Eyes
Once in a blue moon you meet the right one
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Chappell & Co 1930
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Top of PageCat and the Fiddle, The
Romanian opera composer is in America for the premier of his latest opera. An impresario thinks it will be a good idea to put in some songs by a popular jazz composer
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Music by Jerome Kern; lyrics and book by Otto Harbach
1st Produced:
Globe Theatre, New York
15 Oct 1931
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Revival cast recording: Comic Opera Guild
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Top of PageGentlemen Unafraid
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A prequel to "Show Boat" set in the American Civil War
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Music by Jerome Kern; lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II; Otto Herbach. Also known as "Hayfoot, Strawfoot"
1st Produced:
Municipal Theatre, St Louis, MO
03 Jun 1938
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Top of PageLeave It To Jane
Two rival colleges Atwater and Bingham. It is coming up to the time for their yearly football match. Trouble is Atwater do not have much of a team. Stub Talmadge makes a rash bet that Atwater will win. Billy Bingham arrives son of the President of Bingham College. He is a great player the students plot to keep him at Atwater and not go to Bingham. Jane is called in she flirts with Billy gets him to take her to the dance and then to change his name so that her father the President of Atwater will not find out. Billy givers her his fraternity pin
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Music by Jerome Kern; lyrics and book by Guy Bolton; P G Wodehouse. Based on the play: "College Widow" by George Ade
1st Produced:
Longacre Theatre, New York
29 Mar 1917
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Revival cast recording: Comic Opera Guild 2003
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Male: 13 Female: 11 Other: etras
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Top of PageMusic In The Air
Music Teacher Dr Walther Lessing and schoolmaster Karl Reder have written a song. Karl is seeing the Doctor's daughter Sieglinde. They both take the song to Munich to get it published. Karl meets operetta star Frieda and is immediately enamoured. Frieda lives with Bruno Mahler an operetta librettist. When Sieglinde meets him she too is smitten. Frieda moves out of Bruno's apartment so she can spend time with Karl. Bruno takes Sieglinde to the zoo. A bird seller tells her to go home. Bruno makes a pass but Sieglinde repulses him. Frieda finds Karl a disappointment and leaves for Berlin to appear in a movie. Sieglinde is given her part in the operetta "Tingle Tangle" by Bruno. The dress rehearsal is a disaster - Sieglinde is only an amateur. Bruno falls instantly out of love with her. Karl and Sieglinde go back to their village. Frieda secretly returns and takes back her role and is a great success
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Music by Jerome Kern; lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II
1st Produced:
Alvin Theatre, New York
08 Nov 1932
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Revival cast recording: Sepia Recordings 2007
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Top of PageRoberta
All American full back John Kent inherits a dress shop in Paris. The shop is run by his aunt Minnie and she trades under the name "Roberta". Her assistant is Stephanie. When John arrives in Paris he suggests to her that they go into partnership and run the shop. A romance begins to bloom. Then Sophie John's college girlfriend turns up
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Music by Jerome Kerns; lyrics and book by Otto Harbach. Based on the novel: "Gowns By Roberta" by Alice Duer Miller
1st Produced:
New Amsterdam Theatre, New York
18 Nov 1933
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Revival cast recording: Verve
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Top of PageSally
The Alley Inn, Greenwich Village. Mrs Ten Broek brings in a number of waifs to apply to be dishwasher. Sally is given the position and is dubbed "Sally Of The Alley". She meets the waiter Connie who is really Grand Duke Constantin in disguise. Connie's embassy is holding a ball in his honour. Having seen Sally dance he thinks it will be a good idea if she danced at the ball. However a famous French ballerina has been booked for the occasion. When she backs out and as no one in New York has seen her it is decided to pass Sally off as her. The result is that Sally gets a leading role at the "Ziegfeld Follies"
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Music by Jerome Kern; lyrics by Anne Caldwell; Buddy G DeSilva; Clifford Grey; P G Wodehouse; book by Guy Bolton. Based on the unproduced musical: "The Little Thing" by P G Wodehouse
1st Produced:
New Amsterdam Theatre, New York
21 Dec 1920
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Original London cast: Monmouth Evergreen
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Top of PageShow Boat
Spanning the years 1880 to 1927. Magnolia and Gaylord will they ever find love and happiness. Old Man River - he don't say nuthing
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Music by Jerome Kern; Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; Lyrics for "Bill" by P. G. Wodehouse; Music And lyrics for "Goodbye, My Lady Love" by Joseph e. Howard; Music And lyrics for "after the Ball" by Charles K. Harris; Book by Oscar Hammerstein II; Based on "Show Boat" by edna Ferber
1st Produced:
Ziegfield Theatre, New York
27 Dec 1927
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Broadway revival cast: Prism Leisure (PLaTCD 733) 1946
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Top of PageSitting Pretty
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Bill Pennington nephew to wealthy William is in the grounds of the estate with his girlfriend chorus girl Babe. Twin girls Dixie and May climb over the wall from the orphanage to pick flowers. They tell Bill about their lives. Old Pennington calls the family in and tells them that he has disinherited them all and that he is going to adopt a boy and girl and then to get them married and start a new line of Penningtons. He introduces Horace an uncouth youth who he has adopted. Horace is in cahoots with Uncle Joe to rob the Penningtons of their jewellery. Horace meets Dixie and they are attracted - they hope that Mr Pennington will adopt her and they can marry. But Dixie insults him and he refuses to adopt her. Meanwhile Babe hearing that Bill has been disinherited breaks off their engagement. Bill talks to May and realises he loves her he says he is going away to make his fortune and will return for her
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Music by Jerome Kern; lyrics by P G Wodehouse; book by Guy Bolton
1st Produced:
Fulton Theatre, London
08 Apr 1924
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Top of PageSunny
Sunny is being forced into a marriage with Mr Wendell-Wendell to escape she stows away on a boat going to New York. She meets Tom and his sweetheart Marcia. Realising she will be refused entry into the United States Sunny marries Tom's friend Jim. They will go for a quickie divorce once in New York. Jim worries about his girlfriend Weenie back in England. In the meantime Weenie has met Mr Wendell-Wendell
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Music by Jerome Kern; lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II; Otto Herbach
1st Produced:
New Amsterdam Theatre, New York
23 Sep 1925
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Top of PageTheodore & Co
Lord Theodore Wragge comes to the aid of the daughter of the Duke of Shetland - Lady Pansy. A photograph of Pansy with a common adventurer has appeared in the newspapers. Lord Theodore convinces the Duke that the girl in the photograph is a lookalike - the actress Baby Grand. The Duke decides he wants to meet this actress. Pansy has to impersonate her. The Duke arrives at Baby's apartment (one borrowed from a friend for the occasion). However the apartment has also been commandeered by the Minister of Movies for a liaison with a flapper named Sapphire
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Music by Ivor Novello; Jerome Kern; lyrics by Clifford Grey; Adrian Ross; book by George Grossmith; H M Harwood
1st Produced:
Gaiety Theatre, London
19 Sep 1916
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Top of PageThree Sisters, The
at the outbreak of World War One three sisters travel the english countryside with their photographer father. the eldest daughter is engaged to a police constable. the middle daughter to a young man well up in society. the youngest is in love with a gypsy. all three men get called up and sent to the Western Front
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Music by Jerome Kern; lyrics And book by Oscar Hammerstein III. Based on "the Three Sisters" by Anton Chekhov
1st Produced:
Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London
19 Apr 1934
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Top of PageVery Warm For May
Society girl May Graham is on the run from gangsters. She hides out within Avant Garde touring company. The gangster sub plot was dropped when it opened in New
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Music by Jerome Kern; lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II
1st Produced:
Alvin Theatre, New York
17 Nov 1939
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Original cast recording: AEI
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