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Shows · Oh, Boy!

Oh, Boy!

Opened 1917

463 performances

Musical, Early

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Music by Jerome Kern, lyrics by P. G. Wodehouse. Published by T.B. Harms & Francis Day & Hunter, New York

For Oh, Boy! , their third Princess Theatre Musical and the third longest running book musical of the 1910’s, Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton were joined by British humorist P. G. Wodehouse, who helped give the characters the flavor of transplanted silly-ass Englishmen.

Music
Jerome Kern
Lyrics
P. G. Wodehouse
Book
Guy Bolton & P. G. Wodehouse

Productions2 productions: 1 on Broadway, 1 in the West End

1917
Princess TheatreBroadway Original, opened February 20, 1917, directed by Edward Royce, Robert Milton
463 performances
1919
ProductionLondon Opened January 27, 1919

Songs7 songs

You Never Knew About Me, The Land Where the Good Songs Go, An Old-Fashioned Wife, A Pal Like You, Till the Clouds Roll By, Rolled into One, Nesting Time in Flatbush

Licensing 2 entries

US Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available
UK Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available

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