The Girl Friend

• Original Broadway Production (1926)
  New York, NY
• London Production (1927)
  London, England
• Touring Revival (1951)
• Regional Revival (1987)
  Colchester, England
• Musicals Tonight! Concert (2004)
  New York, NY

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Original score

• Hey! Hey!
• The Simple Life
• The Girl Friend
• Goodbye, Lenny!
• The Blue Room
• Cabarets
• Why Do I?
• The Damsel Who Done All the Dirt
• He's a Winner
• Town Hall Tonight
• Good Fellow, Mine
• Creole Crooning Song
• I'd Like to Take You Home
• What is It?

Cut prior to opening

• Hum To
  • aka To Hum [no note]
• In New Orleans
• The Pipes of Pansy
• Sleepyhead
• Turkey in the Straw
• Two of a Kind

Added to 1951 UK tour

• What's the Use of Talking?
• Mountain Greenery
• I'm in Love
• Steppin' on the Blues
• Ain't Love Wonderful
• Walkin' the Track
• Boys of Hagerstown
• Oh By Jiminy
• Kitty Brown, Kitty Brown
• Kitty's Kisses
• Early in the Morning
• Just Imagine It
• I Don't Want Him

Added to 1987 revival

• Step on the Track
• Blue Room
• Rambler's Quartet

Recordings listed here were done in the studio specifically to release as recordings. They do not represent cast recordings of a particular production.

• Studio Cast (1959)
  Doreen Hume , Bruce Trent , Mike Sammes Singers

Leonard Silver, a young Long Island dairyman, hopes to become a great six-day bicycle rider. His girl friend, Mollie Farrell, is his trainer, his manager and his promoter. Arthur Spencer, a professional manager, and his designing sister, Wynn, try to get the dairyman to ride for them, but honesty and true love win out. (Source: The Rodgers and Hammerstein Fact Book, edited by Stanley Green.)

The book for the original London version was completely rewritten by R.P. Weston and Bert Lee.

When The Girl Friend went to London none of the book was retained. While the title and some of the original Rodgers and Hart score were retained many new songs were added. For new book material, Weston and Lee adapted a comedy Kitty's Kisses by P. Bartholomew and Otto Harbach. This comedy had already been made into a musical titled, not surprisingly, Kitty's Kisses. It has not yet been completely determined which of several songs were written for Kitty's Kisses and which were written for The Girl Friend.

For the 1987 revival many of the songs which had been added to the original London version of The Girl Friend were dropped, others were added, and some of the Rodgers and Hart score was reinstated.