- The Garrick Gaieties
Infobox Musical
name= The Garrick Gaieties
subtitle=
caption= Sheet Music
music=Richard Rodgers
lyrics=Lorenz Hart
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productions= 1925 Broadway
awards="The Garrick Gaieties," was a revue which opened on Broadway on
May 17 ,1925 , at theGarrick Theatre was first of a long line of musicals with music byRichard Rodgers and lyrics byLorenz Hart . It ran for 211 performances. It was also the first of series of Garrick Gaiety revues. The critics, includingAlexander Woolcott raved about it.The cast included
Sterling Holloway ,Romney Brent ,June Cochrane ,Betty Starbuck ,Philip Loeb ,Edith Meiser , andHildegarde Halliday .The show parodied current subjects, such as the N.Y. police or the current plays.
Among the seven Rodgers and Hart songs from the show, there were two all-time hits:
* "Manhattan"
* "Sentimental Me"External links
* [http://www.lorenzhart.org/gar1.htm Overview of show]
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