Of Thee I Sing

• Original Broadway Production (1931)
  New York, NY
• National Tour (1932)
• Broadway Return Engagement (1933)
  New York, NY
• Broadway Revival (1952)
  New York, NY
• Off-Broadway Revival (1969)
  New York, NY
• Television Production (1972)
• New York Concert (1987)
  New York, NY
• Encores! Concert (2006)
  New York, NY

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Original score

• Wintergreen for President
• Who Is the Lucky Girl to Be?
• The Dimple on My Knee
• Because, Because
• As the Chairman of the Committee
• How Beautiful
• Never Was There a Girl So Fair
• Some Girls Can Bake a Pie
• Love Is Sweeping the Country
• Of Thee I Sing
  • aka Of Thee I Sing [no note]
• The Supreme Court Judges
• Here's a Kiss for Cinderella
• I Was the Most Beautiful Blossom
• Hello, Good Morning
• Who Cares?
• Garcon, S'il Vous Plait
• Entrance of the French Ambassador
• We'll Impeach Him
• The Illegitimate Daughter
• The Senatorial Roll Call
• Jilted
• I'm About to Be a Mother
  • aka Who Could Ask for Anything More? [no note]
• Posterity Is Just Around the Corner
• Trumpeter, Blow Your Horn

Cut prior to opening

• Call Me Whate'er You Will
  • aka Call Me Whatever You Will [no note]
• Zwei Hertzn
• Entrance of Wintergreen and Mary
• While We're Waiting for the Baby
• Opportunity Has Beckoned
• Strike the Loud-Resounding Zither
• You'll Pardon Me If I Reveal

Added to 1952 revival

• Mine

John P. Wintergreen rides a “love” platform to the presidency. Party bosses stage a publicity romance with beauty queen Diana Devereaux, but Wintergreen instead marries his sensible campaign worker, Mary Turner. Diana sues, Congress fumes, and the inept Vice President Alexander Throttlebottom stumbles into prominence as hearings, impeachment threats, and international squabbles mount. In the end, loyalty and common sense outmaneuver political grandstanding, restoring order—and the couple’s future—amid satiric jabs at American democracy.

Won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1932, the only musical at the time to have done so. George Gershwin was not included in the citation as his contribution was deemed musical and not dramatic.