Production Info

Opening October 21, 1933
Closing: January 6, 1934
Length of Run: 90 perf.
Run Type: Open-ended

Location Info

Location: New York, NY

Credits Highlights

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Book Staging
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Dances and Ensembles

Cast

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Gen. Adam Snookfield, U.S.A.
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Trixie Flynn
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Francis X. Gilhooley
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Louis Lippman
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Mary Wintergreen
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John P. Wintergreen
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The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
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Alexander Throttlebottom
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Kruger
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John P. Tweedledee

Musical Numbers

Act One

  • Overture
  • Wintergreen for President .... Ensemble
  • Tweedledee for President .... Ensemble
  • Union Square .... Ensemble
  • Down With Everyone That's Up .... Kruger and Agitators
  • Shirts by Millions .... Wives and Ensemble
  • Comes the Revolution .... Throttlebottom and Ensemble
  • Mine .... Wintergreen, Mary and Ensemble
  • Climb Up the Social Ladder .... Mary, Wives and Ensemble
  • Cloistered from the Noisy City .... President of the Union League Club and Club Members
  • On and On and On .... Wintergreen, Mary and Ensemble
  • Finale
    • Double Dummy Drill
    • Let 'Em Eat Cake .... Wintergreen and Company

Act Two

  • Blue, Blue, Blue .... Wives and Ensemble
  • Who's the Greatest––––––? ..... Wintergreen and Ensemble
  • No Comprenez, No Capish .... League of Nations
  • When the Judges Doff the Ermine .... Chief Justice and Blue Shirts
  • The Trial of Throttlebottom
    • That's What He Did .... Throttlebottom, Kruger and Ensemble
    • I Know a Foul Ball .... Throttlebottom
    • Throttle Throttlebottom .... Kruger and Ensemble
  • A Hell of a Hole .... Wintergreen, Kruger and Soldiers
  • Hanging Throttlebottom in the Morning .... Ensemble

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Trivia & History

Florenz Ames played General Snookfield in both this production and the subsequent national tour. He also played The French Ambassador in Of Thee I Sing (to which Let 'Em Eat Cake was a sequel) in the original Broadway cast, the Broadway return engagement and the 1952 Broadway revival.

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Production Info

Opening October 21, 1933
Closing: January 6, 1934
Length of Run: 90 perf.
Run Type: Open-ended

Location Info

Location: New York, NY

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