Panama Hattie

• Original Broadway Production (1940)
  New York, NY
• National Tour (1942)
• London Production (1943)
  London, England
• Television Production (1954)
• Regional Tour (1976)
• Musicals Tonight! Concert (2010)
  New York, NY

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Original score

• A Stroll on the Plaza Sant' Ana
• Join It Right Away
• Visit Panama
• My Mother Would Love You
• I've Still Got My Health
• Fresh as a Daisy
• Welcome to Jerry
• Carmen's Dance
• Let's Be Buddies
• They Ain't Done Right by Our Nell
• I'm Throwing a Ball Tonight
• We Detest a Fiesta
  • aka I Detest a Fiesta [used on the national tour]
• Who Would Have Dreamed?
• Make It Another Old-Fashioned, Please
  • aka Make It Anoterh Old Fashioned Please [no note]
  • aka Make It Another Old Fashioned, Please [no note]
• All I've Got to Get Now Is My Man
• You Said It
• God Bless the Women

Added to 1942 film version, but cut

• Here's to Panama Hattie
• Americans All Drink Coffee
• Hattie from Panama
• Just One of Those Things
• Good Neighbors
• Did I Get Stinkin' at the Club Savoy
  • aka At the Savoy [no note]
• The Sping
• Berry Me Not
• The Son of a Gun Who Picks on Uncle Sam
  • aka The Son-of-a-Gun Who Picks on Uncle Sam [no note]
• Salome
  • aka No Matter How You Slice It, It's Still Salome [no note]
• I'd Do Anything for You
• Stop Off in Panama
• Cookin' with Gas
• Ridin' High
• I Love You
• Dance Band Sequence
• Don't Look at Me That Way
• So Near and Yet So Far
• I've Got You Under My Skin
• You Do Something to Me

Added to 1976 revival

• Throwing a Ball Tonight

Hattie Maloney, a nightclub singer in Panama City, tries to fit into the elite world of the American colony to which her fiancé, and single parent, Nick Bullett belongs. Her prospective marriage to Nick hinges on the approval of his precocious eight-year-old daughter, Gerry, as well as that of his boss. Gerry has been chaperoned on her trip from the States by Vivian Budd a 'gentleman’s gentleman' who gets bent to the breaking point by the wiles of Hattie’s best friend Florrie. Nick's boss, an Army officer/engineer, Whitney Randolph and the girls in the Canal "social set" — Leila, Kitty-Belle and Mildred —prove even harder to win over than does Gerry. So what’s needed are some major heroics and that is supplied when a plot to blow up the canal is foiled. Helping thwart the 'enemy' are three less-than-robust soldiers — Woozy Skat and Windy.

There has been some confusion over the years about the song "They Ain't Done Right By Our Nell." It was listed in the opening-night Broadway playbills, but was gone from the playbill by the following week. Because Betty Hutton later insisted that Ethel Merman had one of Hutton's songs cut before Broadway, it has been surmised that "They Ain't Done Right By Our Nell" was gone by opening night, and that it was in the opening-night playbill because it was cut too late to be removed from the printed playbill. But critic Allen Kelcey of Women's Wear Daily specifically mentioned the song in his opening-night review. So it seems that the song was probably in the show on opening night but cut shortly after.