Oh, Lady! Lady!
Shows · Oh, Lady! Lady!
Using a minstrel-show catch line for a title, the last Kern-Wodehouse-Bolton Princess Theatre Musical was the exclamatory successor to Oh, Boy! In a plot that amounted to virtual self-plagiarism, the characters were again caught up in a series of amatory mixups and misunderstandings.
- Opened
- 1918
- Performances
- 219
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Early
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1918 | Princess Theatre Original. February 1, 1918 · Edward Royce, Robert Milton | 219 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
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20 passages naming Oh, Lady! Lady!, 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
Curiously, the best known song written for Oh, Lady! Lady!! was never used in the show. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p40
whose book for Oh, Kay! retained something of the Anglo-American flavor or their previous Oh, Boy! and Oh, Lady! Lady!! book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p62
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
The trio continued their advancement of the musical theater form with the fifth Princess Theater show and their last collaboration, Oh, Lady! Lady! (2/ 1/18; 219 performances), with Vivienne Segal. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p447
After appearing in the legendary production of Miss 1917, Segal’s natural, commanding stage presence was used in Jerome Kern’s early musical comedy success Oh, Lady! Lady! book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p87
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