Shows · Take A Chance

Take A Chance

Opened 1932

243 performances

Musical, Early

Jack Haley, who was in the 1932 production. JGKlein

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.

Music: Richard A. Whiting, Nacio Herb Brown, Vincent Youmans
Lyrics: B. G. DeSylva
Book: B. G. DeSylva, Laurence Schwab, Sid Silvers

Productions1 on Broadway

1932

Apollo TheatreBroadway Original, opened November 26, 1932, directed by Edgar MacGregor

243 performances

Songs5 songs

Should I Be Sweet?, Turn Out the Lights, Rice ‘n’ Shine, You’re an Old Smoothe, Eadie Was a Lady

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