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The Red Petticoat

Opened 1912

61 performances

Musical, Early

Oh you beautiful spring
["Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945 composer", "Rourke, M. E. (Michael Elder), 1867-1933 lyricist"]

The Red Petticoat is a musical comedy in 3 acts with music by Jerome Kern and a book and lyrics by Rida Johnson Young and Paul West. The Western-genre musical starred Helen Lowell as tough lady barber Sophie Brush in a fictional rough silver-mining town in Nevada, who gets her man.

Music
Jerome Kern
Lyrics
Paul West
Book
Rida Johnson Young, Paul West

Productions1 on Broadway

1912
Daly's TheatreBroadway Original, opened November 13, 1912, directed by Joseph W. Herbert
61 performances

The Red Petticoat is a musical comedy in 3 acts with music by Jerome Kern and a book and lyrics by Rida Johnson Young and Paul West. The Western-genre musical starred Helen Lowell as tough lady barber Sophie Brush in a fictional rough silver-mining town in Nevada, who gets her man. Songs included "I Wonder", "My Peaches and Cream", "Oh You Beautiful Spring", "The Ragtime Restaurant", and "Since the Days of Grandmamma". The musical was based on a 1911 farcical melodrama by Young titled Next!. It was Kern's first complete score. After a tryout in Philadelphia, the show opened at Daly's Theatre on November 13, 1912, directed by Joseph W. Herbert, and moved to the Broadway Theatre, closing on Ja…

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