Show Girl

• Original Broadway Production (1929)
  New York, NY

Click on the title for info on the song.

Original score

• Happy Birthday
• My Sunday Fella
• How Could I Forget
• Magnolia Finale
• Can Broadway Do Without Me?
  • aka I Can Do Without Broadway [no note]
  • aka I Know Darn Well I Can Do Without Broadway [no note]
• Lolita, My Love
• Do What You Do
• Spain
• One Man
• So Are You
• I Must Be Home by Twelve O'Clock
• Black and White
• African Daisies
• Jimmy the Well Dressed Man
• Who Will Be with You
  • aka Who Will Be with You When I'm Far Away [no note]
• Harlem Serenade
• American in Paris Blues Ballet, An
• Home Blues
• Broadway, My Street
• I Ups to Him
  • aka So I Ups to Him [no note]
• Follow the Minstrel Band
• Liza
  • aka Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away) [no note]
• Tonight's the Night

Cut prior to opening

• Feeling Sentimental
• I Couldn't Be Good

Added after New York opening

• Adored One
• Mrs. Simpkin's Finishing School
• I Just Looked at You
• I'm Just a Bundle of Sunshine
• Somebody Stole My Heart Away
• Somebody's Always Calling a Rehearsal
• I'm Out for No Good Reason Tonight
• Home Lovin' Gal
  • aka Home Lovin' Man [no note]
• Mississippi Dry
• Because They All Love You

Based on the novel by J.P. McEvoy

An ambitious young performer chases stardom amid the backstage bustle of New York theater. As producers, press agents, and dancers swirl around her, she weighs opportunity against affection while four persistent suitors vie for her attention. Career breaks, publicity stunts, and showbiz politics drive her from chorus hopeful to headliner, forcing a choice between romance and the limelight.