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Betsy

Opened 1926

39 performances

Musical, Early

Hassard Short, who was in the 1911 production. Ralph Barton

Betsy Burke is a young woman from the Lower East Side of New York whose ambitious family wants her to marry well and rise in society. But Betsy has her own ideas about love and follows her heart instead of her family's plans, pursuing a romance that takes her through a series of comic misadventures in and around the colorful neighborhoods of Manhattan.

Music: Richard Rodgers
Lyrics: Lorenz Hart
Book: Irving Caesar, David Freedman

Productions2 on Broadway

1911

Herald Square TheatreBroadway Original, opened December 11, 1911, directed by Edward Elsner

32 performances

1926

New Amsterdam TheatreBroadway Revival, opened December 28, 1926, directed by William Anthony McGuire

39 performances

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