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thinks that with Billy out of the picture, Jane will be on the market, and he breaks his engagement with Flora. It's not all bad news for Flora, however, as Stub pays off his debt for rent, and she gets an offer from coach McGowan. Happy about the money from his winnings, Stub and Bessie become engaged. Just as Billy prepares to leave, Jane begs his forgiveness for her deception but reveals that she has fallen in love with him. Billy must honor his agreement to take a job with his father, but he asks Jane to wait for him, and all ends happily.
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a/k/a Sir Galahad). Hiram Bolton has discovered the deception and is furious. When he accuses Jane of using her feminine wiles to ensnare his son, she pretends to swoon into Billy's arms, instructing the boys and Stub to get rid of Bolton until after the game. They manhandle him into a taxi, and Billy wins the game with an impressive run. Everyone is overjoyed at Atwater, Stub and Bessie proclaim their love ("The Sun Shines Brighter"), and all the boys describe what sort of girl they have been seeking ("I'm Going to Find a Girl (Someday)").
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friend Hiram Bolton, a chief donor to the rival Bingham College. On Bolton's way out Stub foolishly bets him that Atwater will beat Bingham in the big Thanksgiving Day game. Bessie arrives with news that the all-American halfback, Billy Bolton of Minnesota, is joining the team at Bingham; they realize that he must be Hiram Bolton's son. If he joins Bingham, Atwater's chances are zero. Bessie asks Jane to help lure Billy Bolton to Atwater with promises of academic and athletic success and possible romance.
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hits it off with the waitress daughter of Stub's landlady, Flora ("Cleopatterer"), and he begins to become fashionable. Meanwhile, Jane tricks Billy into giving her his fraternity pin and attending that evening's formal dance at Atwater. It pains Jane to be misleading Billy. She wryly notes that modern women are not so different from the legendary
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Outside the stadium the following Thanksgiving Day, everyone is excited about the big game ("Football Song"). The game is close, and, unfortunately, "Silent" Murphy suffers an injury. Senator Hicks is appalled to find that his son, Bub, has become quite a "sport" at college ("The Days of Chivalry",
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how the team's shows integrated story and music: "Bolton and Wodehouse and Kern are my favorite indoor sport. I like the way they go about a musical comedy. ... I like the way the action slides casually into the songs. ... I like the deft rhyming of the song that is always sung in the last act by two
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Beautiful Jane Witherspoon is much sought after by the college boys and even by Professor Talbot, who has a crush on her, but her philosophy is to "Wait 'Til Tomorrow", but everyone knows that if there is a problem, "Leave It to Jane". Her father, the President of Atwater, gets a visit from his old
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On the first day of the new school term, at "Good Old Atwater" College in Indiana is having difficulty assembling a first-rate football team to pit against its arch-rival school, Bingham. Matty McGowan, the team's coach, is discouraged. "Stub" Talmadge returns from vacation with news of a prospect,
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for the good of the school: it's an emergency after all! ("The Crickets Are Calling"). Jane plans for Billy to enroll at Atwater under an assumed name to fool her father. Hon. Elan Hicks is a southern politician who has secured a place at Atwater for his shy and gawky son, Bub. Nevertheless, Bub
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Billy's father tells his son that Jane has fooled him, and heartbroken Billy decides to leave Atwater. Stub then demands that Bolton pay up on their bet. Bolton is unexpectedly impressed that, after having kidnapped him, Stub would show such initiative and nerve, and so he offers Stub a job. Bub
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represents "the transition from the haphazard musicals of the past to the newer, more methodical modern musical comedy ... remarkably pun-free natural and unforced. Charm was uppermost in the creators' minds ... the audience could relax, have a few laughs, feel slightly superior to the silly
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At the ball that evening, Jane uses all of her seductive powers on Billy, who eventually agrees to stay at Atwater and change his name to Elmer Staples. All are delighted with this outcome ("*Something to Say"), and all assume that Jane will dump Billy after the big game is over.
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ran for a modestly successful 167 performances, directed by Edward Royce and choreographed by David Bennett. Though the critics liked the music and lyrics, as well as the cast generally, they were most impressed by
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on was P. G. Wodehouse, the most observant, literate, and witty lyricist of his day, and the team of Bolton, Wodehouse, and Kern had an influence which can be felt to this day." Bordman, Gerald.
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with an intimate style and modest budgets, that would provide an alternative to the Ziegfeld reviews, elaborate operettas and imported shows. Kern and Bolton's first Princess Theatre musical was
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wrote, "The integration of song and story is periodically announced as a breakthrough in our musical theater. Great opera has always done this, and it is easy to demonstrate such integration in
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revival in 1959. Some of the best-known songs are "A Peach of a Life", "Leave It to Jane", "The Crickets Are Calling", "The Siren’s Song", "Sir Galahad" and "Cleopatterer".
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and others. As Cohan's and Herbert's creative output waned, new creative talent on Broadway included composer
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praised the cast generally, but the paper was most impressed by Georgia O'Ramey in the comedy role of Flora.
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also have: they say things as simply as you would say them in common speech, yet they sing perfectly." In
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I'm Going to Find a Girl (Someday) – Stub, Bub, Ollie Mitchell, Louella, Marion Mooney and Cissie Summers
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undertakings on stage, and smile along with the simple, melodic, lyrically witty but undemanding songs".
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When the Orchestra's Playing Your Favorite Waltz (There it is Again) – Billy and Town Girls
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and ran for more than two years (958 performances), and the cast recorded the show's first
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had a small part. The show is occasionally still staged, including a 1985 production at
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Excerpts from the musical are featured in the 1946 MGM Jerome Kern tribute
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comedians and a comedienne. And oh, how I do like Jerome Kern's music."
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The Days of Chivalry (Sir Galahad) – Stub, Flora and Harold "Bub" Hicks
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Hiram Bolton (benefactor of Bingham College) – Will C. Crimans
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Peter Witherspoon (President of Atwater) – Frederic Graham
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consisted of a mix of elaborate European operettas, like
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plays Jane and sings the title song and "Cleopatterer".
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The Sun Shines Brighter (I'm So Happy) – Bessie and Stub
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Flora Wiggins (a prominent waitress) – Georgia O'Ramey
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On meeting her, the handsome Billy is enchanted; Jane
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Musical by Jerome Kern, Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse
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Broadway Musicals: The 101 Greatest Shows of all Time
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lyrics had and which, I am told, the comic verses of
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A Peach of a Life – Stub Talmadge and Bessie Tanner
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Index


Jerome Kern
Guy Bolton
P. G. Wodehouse
Book
Guy Bolton
P. G. Wodehouse
The College Widow
George Ade
Broadway
Off-Broadway
musical
Jerome Kern
Guy Bolton
P. G. Wodehouse
The College Widow
George Ade
Princess Theatre
Oh, Boy!
Longacre Theatre
Broadway
Off-Broadway
musical theatre
The Merry Widow
musical comedy
The Arcadians
George M. Cohan
operettas
Victor Herbert
ragtime

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