- 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 byCole Porter , staged byFrank Collins , and songs by others. Produced byArch Selwyn in association withCharles B. Cochran , the Broadway production, opened onDecember 30 ,1929 at theSelwyn Theatre , where it ran for 136 performances. Cast featuredJack Buchanan ,Jessie Matthews , andTilly 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 byRonald Jeans )
* I Loved Him (but he didn’t love me)
* Coppelia (music byLeo Delibes )
* Operatic Pills
* Why Wouldn’t I Do? (music and lyrics byDesmond Carter andIvor Novello )
* She’s Such a Comfort to Me (lyrics by Douglas Furber and Donovan Parsons; music byArthur 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 byJoseph Meyer andPhilip Charig )
* Gothic (music byJohann Sebastian Bach )* An Old English Folk Song (music and lyrics by Douglas Furber;
Jack Buchanan andCharles Prentice )
* Romba
* (After All, I’m) Only a Schoolgirl
* Which Is the Right Lie?
* I’m a GigoloExternal links
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