Wake Up and Dream

Wake Up and Dream

Infobox Musical
name= Wake Up and Dream
subtitle=


caption= Sheet music cover (cropped)
music= Cole Porter
lyrics= Cole Porter
book= John Hastings Turner
productions= 1929 Broadway
awards=

"Wake Up and Dream" is a musical with a book by John Hastings Turner, music and lyrics by Cole Porter, staged by Frank Collins, and songs by others. Produced by Arch Selwyn in association with Charles B. Cochran, the Broadway production, opened on December 30, 1929 at the Selwyn Theatre, where it ran for 136 performances. Cast featured Jack Buchanan, Jessie Matthews, and Tilly Losch.

This show was an English Revue transported to Broadway after it closed in London. It consisted of a series of sketches and songs, the most famous of which is the Cole Porter standard “What Is This Thing Called Love?”


=Songs=col-begincol-2Act I
* Wake Up and Dream
* More Incredible Happenings (music and lyrics by Ronald Jeans)
* I Loved Him (but he didn’t love me)
* Coppelia (music by Leo Delibes)
* Operatic Pills
* Why Wouldn’t I Do? (music and lyrics by Desmond Carter and Ivor Novello)
* She’s Such a Comfort to Me (lyrics by Douglas Furber and Donovan Parsons; music by Arthur Schwartz)
* The Banjo That Man Joe Plays
* Entrance of Emigrants
* Farruca
* Saragossa JotaAct II
* What Is This Thing Called Love?
* Fancy Our Meeting (lyrics by Douglas Furber; music by Joseph Meyer and Philip Charig)
* Gothic (music by Johann Sebastian Bach)

* An Old English Folk Song (music and lyrics by Douglas Furber; Jack Buchanan and Charles Prentice)
* Romba
* (After All, I’m) Only a Schoolgirl
* Which Is the Right Lie?
* I’m a Gigolo

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