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She’s A Good Fellow

We hold no picture of this show. This is Ivy Sawyer, who was in the 1919 production.
We hold no picture of this show. This is Ivy Sawyer, who was in the 1919 production. True Williams

Shows · She’s A Good Fellow

A young Spanish girl disguises herself as a boy to attend an American college, leading to a series of romantic complications and mistaken identities as she navigates campus life. Her ruse becomes increasingly difficult to maintain as she falls for a fellow student and the college community grows suspicious of the charming new ‘fellow.’

Opened
1919
Performances
120
Type
Musical
Era
Early
Music: Jerome KernLyrics: Anne CaldwellBook: Anne Caldwell

Productions1 on Broadway

1919 Globe Theatre Original. May 5, 1919 · Fred G. Latham, Edward Royce 120 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.

2 passages naming She’s A Good Fellow, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.

Dillingham’s production of She’s a Good Fellow (5/5/19; 120 performances) boasted a score by JEROME KERN and Anne Caldwell. Joseph Santley (in drag), the Duncan Sisters, Olin Howland, and Ivy Sawyer starred. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p340

What we hear is slightly amusing, no more. But on The Jerome Kern Treasury (see below), John McGlinn conducts Jeanne Lehmann and Rebecca Luker, a women’s chorus, and an orchestra playing the song in its original scoring—and what sounds thin and hokey on the Duncans’ 78 suddenly surges with melody. book:anything-goes-a-history-of-american-musical-theatre-ethan-mordden#p387

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