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Broadway Brevities of 1920

Winter Garden Theatre, (9/29/1920 - 12/18/1920)
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Opening: Sep 29, 1920      
Closing: Dec 18, 1920   Total Performances: 105
Produced by George LeMaire
Lyrics by Blair Treynor; Music by Archie Gottler; Sketches by George LeMaire; Additional numbers by Arthur Jackson, George Gershwin, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Irving Caesar and Irving Berlin; Musical Director: Louis Gress; Music orchestrated by Stephen Jones and Will Vodery
Directed by J. C. Huffman; Musical Staging by Jack Mason
Scenic Design by Herbert Ward; Costume Design by Charles Le Maire

Eddie Cantor was one of the performers.
Get a load of the songs in the production.

Music1.gif Broadway Brevities of 1920 (09/29/1920 - 12/18/1920)
music by Archie Gottler; lyrics by Blair Treynor
(Unless otherwise noted)
 
ACT 1
Song List   Sung By
The Usual Opening Chorus   Entire Ensemble
I Love to Dance  
(I'm Going to) Love, Honor, and O'Baby  
That Means Home to Me  
Spanish Love
(music by George Gershwin; lyrics by Irving Caesar)
 
(We've Got) The Stage Door Blues
(music by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby; lyrics by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby)
 
The Moon Shines on the Moonshine
(music by Robert Hood Bowers; lyrics by Francis DeWitt)
 
I Want to Know Where Tosti Went
(music by Chris Smith; lyrics by Chris Smith)
 
I Makes Mine Myself
(music by Robert Hood Bowers; lyrics by Francis DeWitt)
 
Somebody (Else, Not Me) (from ZIEGFELD FOLLIES OF 1919)
(music by James Hanley; lyrics by Ballard MacDonald)
 
Get Up
(music by Robert Hood Bowers; lyrics by Robert Hood Bowers)
 
Wonderful   Girls
Love Me While the Snow Flakes Fall
(music by George Gershwin; lyrics by Arthur Jackson)
 
ACT 2
Song List   Sung By
A Housetop of Our Own  
Won't You Let Me Take a Picture of You?   Kodak Girls
Beautiful Faces Need Beautiful Clothes
(music by Irving Berlin; lyrics by Irving Berlin)
  Girls
I'm a Dancing Fool
(music by George Gershwin; lyrics by Arthur Jackson)
  Girls
Drigo's Polka  
Stolen Sweets  
Lu-Lu
(music by George Gershwin; lyrics by Arthur Jackson)
  Girls
I Wish That I'd Been Born in Borneo
(music by Walter Donaldson; lyrics by Grant Clarke)
 
Palesteena (Lena is the Queen of Palesteena)
(music by Con Conrad and Russell J. Robinson; lyrics by Con Conrad and Russell J. Robinson)
 
Margie
(music by Con Conrad and Russell J. Robinson; lyrics by Benny Davis)

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