The Passing Show of 1918

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Sheet music from the revue's hit song

The Passing Show of 1918 is a

Broadway musical revue featuring music of Sigmund Romberg and Jean Schwartz (and other songwriters), with book and lyrics by Harold Atteridge. The show introduced the hit songs "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" and "Smiles".[1]

Staged by

Willie and Eugene Howard.[2]

Background

The original

revues on Broadway and led the fashion for such productions.[3]
The Casino Theatre produced a revue each summer thereafter for several seasons.

In 1912,

De Wolf Hopper, Charles Winninger, Fred Astaire and his sister Adele, Marie Dressler, Fred Allen, George Hassell, and Violet Englefield.[4] Most of the Shubert shows, including the 1918 show, were staged by J. C. Huffman.[5]

Synopsis

The revue was structured into thirteen scenes, tied together by parodies of the previous season's shows including The Squab Farm.[6]

Musical numbers

Act 1
  • I (Really) Can't Make My Feet Behave
  • War Stamps (Won't You Buy a War Stamp?) (Music By Ray Perkins)
  • My Baby Talking Girl (My Baby-Talk Lady)
  • Go West, Young Girl (Music by Russell Tarbox)
  • Trombone Jazz
  • My Vampire Girl
  • Squab Farm
  • The Shimmy Sisters
  • On the Level, You're a Devil, But I'll Soon Make An Angel Out of You (Lyrics by Joe Young)
  • (That Soothing) Serenade (Music and lyrics by Harry DeCosta)
  • Bring on the Girls
Act 2

See also

References

  1. ISBN 0-486-29421-8
    . Retrieved October 19, 2010.
  2. ^ "Passing Show, 1918, A Big Extravaganza". The New York Times, July 26, 1918, accessed October 18, 2010
  3. ISBN 0-87972-821-3
    , accessed April 27, 2010
  4. ^ "The Passing Show of 1918", Internet Broadway Database, accessed September 27, 2013
  5. ISBN 978-0-8108-5747-6
    . Retrieved 2014-05-30.
  6. ISBN 978-0-19-021925-3
    .
  7. ^ Jaan Kenbrovin was a collective pseudonym for the writers James Kendis, James Brockman and Nat Vincent

External links

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