Kid Boots

Infobox Musical
name= Kid Boots
subtitle=


caption= Sheet music cover (cropped)
music= Harry Tierney
lyrics= Joseph McCarthy
book= William Anthony McGuire and Otto Harbach
productions= 1923 Broadway
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"Kid Boots" is a musical with a book by William Anthony McGuire and Otto Harbach, music by Harry Tierney, and lyrics by Joseph McCarthy. The show was staged by Edward Royce. Produced by Florenz Ziegfeld, the Broadway production, opened on December 31, 1923 at the Earl Carroll Theatre and then moved to the Selwyn Theatre for a total of 489 performances. The cast starred Eddie Cantor and Mary Eaton, with George Olsen and his orchestra.

The show was billed as “A Musical Comedy of Palm Beach and Golf” and was set at The Everglades Club, Palm Beach, Florida. It was a showcase for Eddie Cantor, who played the caddie master at the swank club. He gives golf lessons on the side, with crooked balls so the clients need more instruction. He’s also a bootlegger and a busybody. He can’t be fired, however, because he has something on everyone at the club. The most famous song to come out of the show was “Dinah” by Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young and Harry Akst, added to the finale during the run for Eddie.

=Songs=col-begincol-2Act I
* A Day at the Club
* The Social Observer
* When Your Heart’s in the Game
* Keep Your Eye on the Ball
* The Same Old Way
* Someone Loves You after All (The Rain Song)
* The Intruder Dance
* We've Got to Have More
* Polly Put the Kettle On
* Let’s Do and Say We Didn’t (Let's Don't and Say We Did)
* In the Swim at Miami
* Along the Old Lake Trail
* On With the GameAct II
* (Since Ma Is Playing) Mah Jong (by Billy Rose and Con Conrad)
* Bet on the One You Fancy
* I’m In My Glory
* Play Fair, Man!
* Win for Me
* The Cake Eater’s Ball
* Down ‘Round the 19th Hole
* En Route
* When the Cocoanuts Call
* In the Rough
* That’s All There Is

Also interpolated into the show:
* If You Do What You Do (by Roy Turk, Lou Handman and Eddie Cantor)
* He’s the Hottest Man in Town (by Owen Murphy and Jay Gorney)
* Alabamy Bound (words by Bud DeSylva and Bud Green, music by Ray Henderson)
* Dinah (by Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young and Harry Akst)

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