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Tickle Me

Opened 1920

207 performances

Musical, Early

Tickle Me

A motion picture company travels to a Tibetan monastery to film on location, bringing along a bumbling comedian who causes chaos. Romantic entanglements develop between cast and locals while the filming is constantly disrupted by the comedian's antics and misunderstandings with the mystified monks.

Music
Herbert Stothart
Lyrics
Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Frank Mandel
Book
Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Frank Mandel

Productions1 on Broadway

1920
Selwyn TheatreBroadway Original, opened August 17, 1920, directed by William Collier
207 performances

Tickle Me was a Broadway musical comedy in two acts with book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel and music and musical direction provided by Herbert Stothart. Tickle Me was produced by Arthur Hammerstein and opened at the Selwyn Theater on August 17, 1920 and closed after 207 performances on February 12, 1921. The musical then embarked on a successful road tour with a schedule that extending well into the spring of the following year.

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