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Revenge With Music

Opened 1934

158 performances

Musical, Early

Libby Holman, who was in the 1934 production.
Libby Holman, who was in the 1934 production. Source: Warner Bros. Pictures

Based on the Spanish novel The Three-Cornered Hat, a provincial governor in old Spain becomes infatuated with the beautiful wife of a local miller. When the governor schemes to seduce her, the miller plots an elaborate revenge by pursuing the governor's own wife, leading to a farcical chain of romantic deceptions and comic retribution.

Music
Arthur Schwartz
Lyrics
Howard Dietz
Book
Howard Dietz

Productions1 on Broadway

1934
New Amsterdam TheatreBroadway Original, opened November 28, 1934, directed by Hassard Short, Komisarjevsky
158 performances

Revenge with Music is a musical comedy with book and lyrics by Howard Dietz and music by Arthur Schwartz, that opened on Broadway in 1934. This was the first "book" musical by Dietz and Schwartz.

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