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You Never Know

Opened 1938

78 performances

Musical, Early

Clifton Webb, who was in the 1938 production. Trailer screenshot

A baron and his wife each disguise themselves as servants to test whether their respective love interests are attracted to them as people rather than titles. The dual masquerade leads to a farcical tangle as masters pretend to be servants and servants are mistaken for masters in this Viennese comedy of errors.

"Cole Porter": the show's own period marketing line.

Music: Cole Porter
Lyrics: Cole Porter
Book: Rowland Leigh

Productions1 on Broadway

1938

Winter Garden TheatreBroadway Original, opened September 21, 1938, directed by Rowland Leigh

78 performances

Recordings 1 recording

2001

You Never Know (2001 Studio Cast) Fynsworth Alley 302 062 108 2, released 2001

United States

Licensing 1 entry

Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals

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You Never Know is a musical with a book by Rowland Leigh, adapted from the original European play By Candlelight, by Siegfried Geyer and Karl Farkas, with music by Cole Porter and Robert Katscher, lyrics by Cole Porter, additional lyrics by Leigh and Edwin Gilbert, directed by Leigh, and songs by others. The show was written not long after the riding accident that left Porter semi-crippled.

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