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Peggy-Ann

Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
Produced by Lew Fields & Lyle D. Andrews
Directed by Robert Milton
Choreography by Seymour Felix
Book by Herbert Fields, suggested by the musical comedy Tillie's nightmare
Opened December 27, 1926 at the Vanderbilt Theatre and ran for 333 performances.

Synopsis

This show was about Peggy-Ann and the world that she dreamed up. Her conception of New York, faithfully carried out on the stage, was of a place where all traffic on Fifth Avenue knocked off while the policemen went to lunch, and where society ladies munched bananas in fancy dressmakers' shops. On a yacht bearing Peggy-Ann and her loved one out to sea, the crew was suddenly seized by a morality notable amoung sailors, and mutinied because the lovers weren't married. When Peggy-Ann tried to save the situation by getting married, she found herself at the ceremony in her underwear with her mother officiating, using a telephone book as a Bible.

Song List

Where's That Rainbow
A Tree In The Park
Hello!
Howdy to Broadway
A little birdie told me so
Charming, Charming
Finale act 1 (Wedding procession)
We pirates from weehawken
I'm so humble
Havana
Give the little girl a hand
Peggy, Peggy
Come on and tell me
Paris is really divine
Trampin' along
In his arms
Maybe It's Me

Info

Peggy-Ann was a study in the unusual. It violated every musical-comedy tradition, borrowed a few more from other art forms, and then violated them too. There was no opening chorus. In the first 15 minutes there was no singing or dancing at all. The plot was simply one long dream. The eternal musical-comedy love story was kidded. The chorus danced in a sort of planned chaos. The lights misbehaved with a sort of wayward intelligence of their own, the spotlight was never in the right place, and the footlights and borderlights went on and off willfully.

The dancing when it finally arrived, was an abrupt departure from the collection of speedy routines and specialty numbers which is still standard fare in musicals. It was a musical that ended with a whisper and a laugh.

Original Cast included: Helen Ford, Lester Cole, Lulu McConnell, Betty Starbuck & Edith Meiser

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