Leave It to Jane
Shows · Leave It to Jane
Music: Jerome Kern Lyrics: P. G. Wodehouse Book: Guy Bolton & P. G. Wodehouse Cast: Edith Hallor, Robert Pitkin, Oscar Shaw, Georgia O’Ramey Songs: “Wait Till Tomorrow”; “Just You Watch My Step”; “Leave It to Jane”; “The Crickets Are Calling”; “The Siren’s Song”; “There It Is Again”; “Cleopatterer”; “The Sun Shines Brighter”; “I’m Going to Find a Girl”
- Opened
- 1917
- Performances
- 167
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Early
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1917 | Longacre Theatre Original. August 28, 1917 · Edward Royce | 167 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 1 album held
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
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31 passages naming Leave It to Jane, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
The second offering did, in fact, indicate greater assurance in fulfilling the goals that the Princess management had initially outlined. Very Good Eddie not only adhered to the general plan but also set the style and standard for three subsequent Kern musicals written with Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse — Oh, Boy! , Leave… book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p36
Leave It to Jane takes place at good old Atwater College, where everyone is concerned about the Thanksgiving Day football game with rival Bingham. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p39
Very Good Eddie not only adhered to the general plan but also set the style and standard for three subsequent Kern musicals written with Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse — Oh, Boy!, Leave It to Jane, and Oh, Lady! Lady!!— that formed the seminal quartet known as the Princess Theatre Musicals. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p47
It was the Jerome Kern/P.G. Wodehouse/Guy Bolton winner Leave It to Jane, about a football-crazy college campus. Among the Kern gems were: The Sirens Song, The Crickets Are Calling, Cleopatterer, and the lilting title song. The Longacre had full houses for 167 performances. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p91
One reason was a spate of Off-Broadway revivals including Leave It to Jane, Anything Goes, and Best Foot Forward) book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p262
Victor Herbert’s Naughty Marietta (1910), Jerome Kern’s so-called Princess Theatre Shows (1915–1918) with books and lyrics by P. G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton (especially Very Good Eddie and Leave It to Jane), Harry Tierney and Joseph McCarthy’s Irene (1919), Sigmund Romberg’s The Student Prince in Heidelberg (1924), Vin… book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p29
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