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==1940 Broadway production== |
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Revision as of 00:17, 25 March 2007
Louisiana Purchase is a musical theater production from 1940. It has music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and book by Morrie Ryskind based on a story by B. G. DeSylva.
The songs
- "Fools Fall In Love"
- "It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow"
- "Latins Know How"
- "The Lord Done Fixed Up My Soul"
- "Louisiana Purchase"
- "Outside Of That I Love You"
- "What Chance have I?"
- "You Can't Brush Me Off"
- "You're Lonely And I'm Lonely"
Crazy, but thats how it goes
Millions of people living as foes
Maybe its not to late
To learn how to love
And forget how to hate
Mental wounds not healing
Lifes a bitter shame
Im going off the rails on a crazy train
Ive listened to preachers
Ive listened to fools
Ive watched all the dropouts
Who make their own rules
One person conditioned to rule and control
The media sells it and you have the role
Mental wounds still screaming
Driving me insane
Im going off the rails on a crazy train
I know that things are going wrong for me
You gotta listen to my words
Yeh-h
Heirs of a cold war
Thats what weve become
Inheriting troubles Im mentally numb
Crazy, I just cannot bear
Im living with something that just isnt fair
Mental wounds not healing
Who and whats to blame
Im going off the rails on a crazy train
1940 Broadway production
The show opened at the Shubert Brothers' Imperial Theater, New York City on May 28, 1940 and ran for 444 performances. It was produced by Buddy De Sylva, who also wrote the story from a book by Morrie Ryskind, and staged by Edgar MacGregor. The musical orchestrations were by Robert Emmett Dolan and N. Lang Van Cleve, with the ballets by George Balanchine and the musical staging and dances by Carl Randall.
Set in New Orleans, the musical parodies Governor Huey Long and his control over Louisiana politics.
Cast
1941 Motion Picture
1941 film poster.
A Paramount Pictures production, the film was directed by Irving Cummings with Robert Emmett Dolan serving as musical director as he had done for the play. Starring comedian Bob Hope, the film featured Vera Zorina, Victor Moore and Irène Bordoni reprising their stage roles. Raoul Pene Du Bois did the production and costume design and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Color. The cinematography was by Harry Hallenberger and Ray Rennahan who also received an Academy award nomination for Best Cinematography, Color.
Cast