Shows · Hooray For What!

Hooray For What!

Opened 1937

200 performances

Musical, Early

ORIG. DIE CUT SHAPE Broadway Tryout PROGRAM: ED WYNN in HOORAY FOR WHAT! Image 1 of 4 — eBay seller listing photograph

Horticulturist Chuckles Wynn accidentally discovers a gas that not only kills fruit-eating insects but humans as well. Soon every nation has spies trying to steal the formula for warfare purposes. One spy gets a look at the formula reflected in a mirror so it is written down backwards and only produces a laughing gas.

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Music: Harold Arlen
Lyrics: E. Y. Harburg
Book: Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse

Productions1 on Broadway

1937

Winter GardenBroadway Original, opened December 1, 1937, directed by Vincente Minnelli, Howard Lindsay

200 performances

Songs5 songs

God’s Country, I’ve Gone Romantic on You, Moanin’ in the Mornin’, Down With Love, In the Shade of the New Apple Tree

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