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As The Girls Go

Opened 1948

420 performances

Musical, Golden Age

Irene Rich, who was in the 1948 production.
Irene Rich, who was in the 1948 production. film screenshot

A throwback to the days when a great personality could carry a musical to success without any help from the book, As the Girls Go was a gaudy, rowdy, fast-paced song-and-dance show totally dependent on the antics of one of the theatre’s outstanding clowns, Bobby Clark, here making his final Broadway appearance.

Music
Jimmy McHugh
Lyrics
Harold Adamson
Book
William Roos

Productions1 on Broadway

1948
Winter GardenBroadway Original, opened November 13, 1948, directed by Howard Bay
420 performances

Songs5 songs

As the Girls Go, You Say the Nicest Things, Baby, There’s No Getting Away from You, Lucky in the Rain, Father’s Day

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