Shows · Sitting Pretty

Sitting Pretty

Opened 1924

95 performances

Musical, Early

Queenie Smith, who was in the 1924 production. Follies (October 1924) on the Internet Archive

Identical twin orphans, separated as babies, end up on opposite sides of the tracks. When the poor twin arrives at the estate of a millionaire uncle, comic confusion ensues as the household cannot tell the twins apart. Romance, mistaken identity, and a missing jewel necklace drive the farcical plot to its happy resolution.

"'Finding the Bliss', notes to Sitting Pretty, New World Records 80387-2 (1990), pp. 10–16.": the show's own period marketing line.

Music: Jerome Kern
Lyrics: P. G. Wodehouse
Book: Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse

Productions1 on Broadway

1924

Fulton TheatreBroadway Original, opened April 8, 1924, directed by Fred G. Latham, Julian Alfred

95 performances

Recordings 1 recording

1990

Sitting Pretty New World Records 80387-2, released 1990

United States

Morris Gest, P.G. Wodehouse, Guy Bolton, F. Ray Comstock and Jerome Kern in Detroit for the opening of Sitting Pretty, the seventh and most recent of the Princess Theatre Intimate Musical Comedies, April 8, 1924.

Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 301

‘Bongo on the Congo’ from Sitting Pretty, for instance.

The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin Gershwin Ira 1896 1983, p. 104

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