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Stop! Look! Listen!

Opened 1915

105 performances

Musical, Early

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A lighthearted musical comedy about a young man who inherits a fortune on the condition that he marry within a year. His search for a bride leads him through a series of romantic misadventures and comic encounters with showgirls, society matrons, and rival suitors.

"a great big bouncing musical comedy that is just vaudeville grown grand.": the show's own period marketing line.

Music
Irving Berlin
Lyrics
Irving Berlin
Book
Harry B. Smith

Productions1 on Broadway

1915
OriginalBroadway Original, directed by R. H. Burnside
105 performances

Stop! Look! Listen! is a musical in three acts with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and book by Harry B. Smith. The piece had additional music by Henry Kailimai and Jack Alau and additional lyrics by G. H. Stover and Sylvester Kalama. Stop! Look! Listen! opened on Broadway at the Globe Theatre on Christmas Day, 1915, and ran for 105 performances. The revue was produced by Charles Dillingham and directed by R.H. Burnside. The music director was Robert Hood Bowers, and Robert McQuinn designed the sets and costumes.

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