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What’s Up?

Opened 1943

63 performances

Musical, Golden Age

Jimmy Savo, who was in the 1943 production.
Jimmy Savo, who was in the 1943 production. National Vaudeville Artists Photo by C R Hill

When a troupe of aviators from a fictional Asian country are quarantined at a girls' school after exposure to a rare disease, romantic chaos ensues. The soldiers and students pair off while the school's administrators try to maintain order.

Music
Frederick Loewe
Lyrics
Alan Jay Lerner
Book
Alan Jay Lerner, Arthur Pierson

Productions1 on Broadway

1943
National TheatreBroadway Original, opened November 11, 1943, directed by George Balanchine, Robert H. Gordon
63 performances

What's Up? is a musical notable as the first Broadway stage collaboration by Lerner and Loewe, with book by Arthur Pierson and Alan Jay Lerner, lyrics by Lerner, and music by Frederick Loewe.

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