Shows · Simple Simon
Simple Simon
Opened 1930
135 performances
Musical, Early
Simon, a simple-minded newspaper vendor, falls asleep and dreams himself into a fairy-tale world where he encounters characters from Mother Goose nursery rhymes. In this fantastical dreamland, he bumbles through encounters with Cinderella, Jack and Jill, and Little Bo Peep, causing comic mayhem in each story while trying to find his way back to reality.
- Music
- Richard Rodgers
- Lyrics
- Lorenz Hart
- Book
- Ed Wynn, Guy Bolton
Productions2 on Broadway
Simple Simon is a Broadway musical with book by Guy Bolton, and Ed Wynn, lyrics by Lorenz Hart, music by Richard Rodgers, produced by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., and starring Ed Wynn. It originally played from February 18, 1930, to June 14, 1930, at the Ziegfeld Theatre, then reopened on March 9, 1931, at the Majestic Theatre. The play, a loose plot designed to show off Ed Wynn's fumbling, clowning, punning style, cast him as a newspaper vendor who spends his time in a fairy-tale land where bad news does not exist. The song "Ten Cents a Dance" was introduced by Ruth Etting in this show. "Love Me or Leave Me" by Gus Kahn and Walter Donaldson was interpolated into the show about two months after it…
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