Shows · Take A Chance
Retitled Take a Chance — to indicate something of the risks involved — the show was now an old-fashioned book musical concerned with a romance between the leading man and leading lady (Whiting and June Knight) who are appearing in a revue about American history called Humpty Dumpty.
- Opened
- 1932
- Performances
- 243
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Early
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1932 | Apollo Theatre Original. November 26, 1932 · Edgar MacGregor | 243 performances |
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11 passages naming Take A Chance, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
The first Gems of the Town premiered with the film Take a Chance. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p541
Youmans’s last Broadway show was Take a Chance (11/26/32: 243 performances). He was asked to come in to bolster the score by Richard Whiting. Nacio Herb Brown, and B. G. De Sylva. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p598
TAKE A CHANCE was transformed into a fair-sized hit, though Youmans’s contributions (except the revivalist Rise “n Shine) were overshadowed by HUMPTY DUMPTY leftover Eadie Was a Lady. book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p112
Note that the music for “The Bowery” (aka “Blue Bowery”) was heard as “My Lover” (with a new lyric by B. G. “Buddy” DeSylva) for Take a Chance, where it was performed during the tryout before being cut prior to New York (“My Lover” is available on at least three collections of Youmans’s music; book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p103
As Humpty Dumpty, Take a Chance underwent a tumultuous tryout and was all but written off as one of the season’s first failures. But rewriting, recasting, and the last-minute addition of Vincent Youmans to the creative team resulted in a hit that became the season’s third-longest-running musical. book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p252
Take a Chance was the last new Broadway musical to feature music by Youmans. book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p253
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