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Johnny Mercer

JOHNNY MERCER

  (1909 - 1976)
Nationality:    USA
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Johnny Mercer's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Johnny Mercer's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Ac-Cent-Chuate the Positive         Breakfast At Tiffany's         Foxy         Good Companions, The         Li'l Abner         Never Gonna Dance         One For My Baby         Saratoga         Seven Brides for Seven Brothers         St Louis Woman         Top Banana

Ac-Cent-Chuate the Positive

Synopsis:
songbook show dvoted to the works of Harold Arlen

Notes:
book by Mark Rolston; lyrics by Ted Koeler, Yip Harburg, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin And Truman Capote

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Breakfast At Tiffany's

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Notes:
Music and lyrics by Bart Howard; Johnny Mercer; book by Paul Blake; Hunt Holman. Based on the novel "Breakfast At Tiffany's" by Truman Capote

1st Produced:
Muny Theatre, St Louis    19 Jul 2004

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Foxy

Foxy
1898 the Gold Rush in the Yukon. Jim Fox tells his friends that he has found a mother lode. However they jump his claim and get all the gold and money. Jim and con man Doc Mosk join forces to get it back. they let it be known the Jim - Foxy - is dying and has a huge box of gold that he wants to give to an heir. the three claim jumpers start being nice to Foxy and doing everything he wants. Meanwhile the son of one of the claim jumpers, Ben, has arrived from college. Ben stops Celia who in desperation at having nothing wanted to sell herself to the highest bidder

Notes:
Music by Robert Emmett Dolan; lyrics by Johnnie Mercer; book by Ian McLellan Hunter; Ring Lardner Jr

1st Produced:
Ziegfield Theatre, New York    16 Feb 1964

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Music:
Original cast recording: SPM (CO-4636) 1964

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Good Companions, The

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Notes:
Reworked As A musical in 2 Acts based on the novel by J.B. Priestley. Book by Ronald Harwood. Lyrics by Johnny Mercer, Music by Andre Previn Her Majesty's theatre, London -November 7, 1974

1st Produced:
Her Majesty's Theatre, London    07 Nov 1974

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Li'l Abner

Li'l Abner
Dogpatch is threatened and can its citizens save it? And will Daisy Mae ever get Li'l Abner?

Notes:
Norman Panama with Melvin Frank. Music by Gene de Paul. Lyrics by Johnny Mercer. Based on the cartoons of Al Capp.

1st Produced:
St James Theater, New York    15 Nov 1956

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Music:
Original cast recording: Columbia (SMK 87700)

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  19            Female:  11            Other:  chorus

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Never Gonna Dance

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by Jeffrey Hatcher; Music by Jerome Kern; lyrics by Dorothy Fields, Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin, P G Wodehouse, Jimmy McHugh And Edward Laska. Based on the film "Swing Time" RKO Radio.

1st Produced:
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One For My Baby

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Notes:
Music by Harold Arlen; lyrics by Truman Capote; Ira Gershwin; E Y Harburg; Ted Koehler; Johnny Mercer, Billy Rose; book by Fred Barton

1st Produced:
New 42nd Street Studios, New York    2013

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Saratoga

Saratoga
Clio an illegitimate Creole woman plans revenge on the family that exiled her pregnant mother as the son of the house was the father. She joins forces with Clint Maroon whose family was swindled out of land by a railway tycoon. the plan is for Clio to seduce the tycoon and get him to marry her. However, Clint and Clio fall in love

Notes:
Music by Harold Arlen; lyrics by Johnny Mercer; book by Morton Dacosta. Based on the novel "Saratoga Trunk" by Edna Furber

1st Produced:
Winter Garden Theatre, New York    07 Dec 1959

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1st Published:
typescript in PAL, 1959   -

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Synopsis:
Setting: the Pacific Northwest in the 1850s

Notes:
Book by Lawrence Kasha And David Landay; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer; Music by Gene de Paul; New songs by Al Kasha And Joel Hirschhorn; Additional lyrics by Al Kasha And Joel Hirschhorn; Based on the film by MGM; Based on "the Sobbin' Women" by Stephen Vincent Benet

1st Produced:
Alvin Theatre, Broadway, NY    1982

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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St Louis Woman

St Louis Woman
St Louis 1898. Augie a jockey is having a very successful run of wins. He is in love with Della. DElla is trying to end an abusive relationship with bar owner Biglow Brown. At the bar Augie demonstrates the cakewalk and attracts Della's attention. Lilla is also there - she is Brown's ex-lover and is still very much in love with her. DElla and Augie plan to get married. Whilst Augie is away racing Brown visits DElla and beats her up. Lilla has followed him - then Augie returns. Lilla shoots Brown but Brown thinks that Augie did it and with his dying breath curses him. the curse seems to work Augie stops winning races and DElla decides to move away convinced that it is all her fault. When Augie discovers why she is leaving he determines to win the next race and prove the curse wrong

Notes:
Music by Harold Arlen; lyrics by Johnny Mercer (added later); book by Arna Bontemps; Countee Cullen. (Martin Beck theater, New York, Mar. 1946)

1st Produced:
Gilpin Players, Karamu Theatre, Cleveland, Ohio    Nov 1933

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1st Published:
Black theater, ed. by Lindsay Patterson, New York: Dodd, 1971   -

Music:
Original cast recording: Angel (64662) 1946

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  22 BM, 7 BF, extras

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Top Banana

Top Banana
Jerry Biffle is the star of the "Blendo Soap Program" He meets Sally at the launch of his book and puts her in his television show. Jerry has fallen for Sally. As a stunt for the programme he has arranged an elopement between one of the singers on the show, Cliff and a mystery girl. He does not know that Cliff and Sally have fallen in love and that Cliff intends to go through with the stunt - but with Sally

Notes:
Music And lyrics by Johnny Mercer; book by Hy Kraft

1st Produced:
Winter Garden Theatre, New York    01 Nov 1951

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Genre:
Musical

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