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Dearest Enemy

Opened 1925

286 performances

Musical, Early

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Dearest Enemy is a musical with a book by Herbert Fields, lyrics by Lorenz Hart, and music by Richard Rodgers. This was the first of eight book musicals written by the songwriting team of Rodgers and Hart and writer Herbert Fields, and the first of more than two dozen Rodgers and Hart Broadway musicals.

Music
Richard Rodgers
Lyrics
Lorenz Hart
Book
Herbert Fields

Productions1 on Broadway

1925
Knickerbocker TheatreBroadway Original, opened September 18, 1925, directed by John Murray Anderson, Charles Sinclair, Harry Ford
286 performances

Songs8 songs

Here in My Arms, I Beg Your Pardon, Cheerio, I’d Like To Hide It, Bye and Bye, Sweet Peter, Old Enough to Love, Here’s a Kiss

Licensing 1 entry

US Concord Theatricals R&H Theatricals available

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