On With the Dance (musical)

On With the Dance (musical)

This article is about the 1925 musical revue. For the 1920 film, see On with the Dance (1920 film). For the 1975 Upstairs, Downstairs episode, see On With the Dance.

On With the Dance is a 1925 musical revue produced by C. B. Cochran, written and composed by Noël Coward and Philip Braham. Coward wrote his songs while he was acting in his first stage hit, The Vortex. 1925 was a busy year for Coward, in which he produced three other plays in London: Hay Fever, Fallen Angels and Easy Virtue.

The show opened at the Palace Theatre, Manchester, England, on 17 March 1925 and transferred to the London Pavilion, where it ran for 229 performances.[1][2] It is best remembered for Alice Delysia's singing "Poor Little Rich Girl". Cochran wanted to cut the piece and had to be dissuaded by Coward. As well as Delysia, the cast included Hermione Baddeley, Ernest Thesiger, Nigel Bruce and Douglas Byng.[1] On opening night, Coward was not yet the famous name he would be by the end of the year: The Manchester Guardian review mentioned him only once, and The Times review did not mention him at all.[1][2]

Songs

(In the order listed in The Lyrics of Noël Coward, pp. 19-30):

  • Cosmopolitan lady
  • I'm so in love
  • Poor little rich girl
  • First love
  • Couldn't we keep on dancing?
  • Raspberry time in Runcorn
  • Spinsters' song
  • The vicarage dance
  • Choir boys' song
  • Even clergymen are naughty now and then
  • Church parade
  • Come a little closer

The Noël Coward Society, drawing on performing statistics from the publishers and the Performing Rights Society, ranks "Poor little rich girl" among Coward's ten most popular songs.[3] The show also features four ballets, not by Coward. One of them, based on William Hogarth's The Rake’s Progress, was composed by Roger Quilter and choreographed by Leonid Massine.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d The Manchester Guardian, 18 March 1925, p. 11 "Great Showmanship"
  2. ^ a b The Times, 1 May 1925, p. 12 "On With The Dance."
  3. ^ "Appendix 3 (The Relative Popularity of Coward's Works)", Noël Coward Music Index, accessed 9 March 2009

References

  • Coward, Noël. The Lyrics of Noël Coward, Heinemann, London, 1965.



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