Simple Simon (musical)

This article is about the 1930 musical. For other uses, see Simple Simon (disambiguation).

Simple Simon
original 1930 sheet music
Music	Richard Rodgers
Lyrics	Lorenz Hart
Book	Guy Bolton Ed Wynn
Productions	1930 Broadway 1931 Broadway revival

Simple Simon is a Broadway musical with book by Guy Bolton, and Ed Wynn, lyrics by Lorenz Hart, music by Richard Rodgers, produced by Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., and starring Ed Wynn.

It originally played from February 18, 1930 to June 14, 1930 at the Ziegfeld Theatre, then reopened on March 9, 1931 at the Majestic Theatre.

The play, a loose plot designed to show off Ed Wynn's fumbling, clowning, punning style, cast him as a newspaper vendor who spends his time in a fairy-tale land where bad news does not exist. The song "Ten Cents a Dance" was introduced by Ruth Etting in this show. "Love Me Or Leave Me" by Gus Kahn and Walter Donaldson was interpolated into the show about two months after it opened.

"Dancing on the Ceiling", cut during the Broadway previews, was eventually sung by Jessie Matthews in the London production of Ever Green, and became a standard.

The musical numbers written for the show included:

"Coney Island"
"Don't Tell Your Folks"
"Magic Music"
"I Still Believe in You"
"Send for Me"
"Dull and Gay"
"Sweetenheart"
"Hunting the Fox"
"Come On, Men"
"Ten Cents a Dance"
"Rags and Tatters"
"Dancing on the Ceiling" (dropped before the New York opening)
"He Was Too Good to Me" (dropped before the New York opening)
"Oh, So Lovely" (unused)
"Peter Pan"
"The Simple Simon Instep" (unused)
"Prayers of Tears and Laughter" (dropped before the New York opening)
"Hunting Song" (unused)
"Come out of the Nursery" (dropped before the pre-Broadway tryout)
"Sing Glory Hallelujah" (dropped before the pre-Broadway tryout)

The song "I Can Do Wonders with You", from a previous show, was interpolated.

External links

Simple Simon at the Internet Broadway Database
Article on Simple Simon in Ruth Etting site

Rodgers and Hart

Musicals	The Garrick Gaieties Dearest Enemy The Girl Friend Peggy-Ann A Connecticut Yankee Present Arms Ever Green Simple Simon America's Sweetheart Jumbo On Your Toes Babes in Arms I'd Rather Be Right The Boys from Syracuse I Married an Angel Too Many Girls Higher and Higher Pal Joey By Jupiter

Songs	"Manhattan" "Mountain Greenery" "Here in My Arms" "Blue Room" "My Heart Stood Still" "Thou Swell" "To Keep My Love Alive" "You Took Advantage of Me" "With a Song in My Heart" "A Ship Without a Sail" "Dancing on the Ceiling" "Ten Cents a Dance" "He Was Too Good to Me" "I've Got Five Dollars" "Isn't It Romantic?" "Lover" "Mimi" "Blue Moon" "It's Easy to Remember (And So Hard to Forget)" "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" "My Romance" "Little Girl Blue" "There's a Small Hotel" "Glad to Be Unhappy" "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" "Where or When" "I Wish I Were in Love Again" "My Funny Valentine" "Johnny One Note" "The Lady Is a Tramp" "Have You Met Miss Jones?" "I'll Tell the Man in the Street" "Spring Is Here" "Falling in Love with Love" "This Can't Be Love" "Sing for Your Supper" "I Like to Recognize the Tune" "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" "Give It Back to the Indians" "You're Nearer" "It Never Entered My Mind" "I Could Write a Book" "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" "Ev'rything I've Got" "Wait till You See Her"

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