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Sunny

Shows · Sunny

Sunny is a musical comedy with music by Jerome Kern and a libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach. The plot involves Sunny, the star of a circus act, who falls for a rich playboy but comes in conflict with his snooty family.

Opened
1925
Performances
517
Type
Musical
Era
Early
Music: Jerome KernLyrics: Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein IIBook: Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein II

Productions1 on Broadway

1925 New Amsterdam Theatre Original. September 22, 1925 · Hassard Short 517 performances

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Licensing 2 entries

US Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available
UK Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available

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32 passages naming Sunny, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.

Hammerstein first collaborated with composer JEROME KERN on the show Sunny (9/22/25; 517 performances). Harbach worked with Hammerstein on the book and lyrics, and Charles Dillingham produced the musical at the New AMSTERDAM THEATRE. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p233

Kern’s next show, Sunny (9/22/25; 517 performances), another great success, reunited the composer with his star of Sally, Marilyn Miller. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p300

Sunny, a vehicle for Marilyn Miller with a score by Kern, opens at the New Amsterdam Theater for a run of 517 performances. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p19

She starred in several of his musical comedies, including Sally (1920), Sunny (1925), and Rosalie (1928). book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p261

'In Araby With You”—new lyric for “Sunshine” from SUNNY “You Will—Won’t You?”—new lyric for “I’ve Looked For Trouble” from London production of SUNNY, a revised version of “Bought And Paid For” from THE LAUGHING HUSBAND [February 2, 1914] book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p82

I Can’t Forget Your Eyes—see SUNNY [Septem- ber 22, 1925] and CRISS-CROSS [October 12, 1926]; Bought and Paid For—see SUNNY [September 22; 1925] and CRISS-CROSS [October 12, 1926] book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p41

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