Swingin' the Dream

• Original Broadway Production (1939)
  New York, NY

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Original score

• Spring Song
• Peace, Brother
• There's Gotta Be a Wedding
• Swingin' a Dream
• Moonland
• Comedy Dance
• Love's a Riddle
• Dream Dance: Doing the Saboo
• Darn That Dream
• Jumpin' at the Woodside
• Pick-a-Rib
• Wedding March
• The Opera "Pyramus and Thisbe"
• St. Louis Blues
• Ain't Misbehavin'
• Moonglow
• Hold Tight
• Melancholy Baby
  • aka My Melancholy Baby [no note]
• Christopher Columbus
• Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
• The Dipsy Doodle
• Ol' Man Mose Is Dead
  • aka Ol' Man Mose [no note]
• Jeepers Creepers
• Oh You Crazy Moon
• Flat Foot Floogie
• Down by the Old Mill Stream

Cut prior to opening

• I Can't Give You Anything But Love

Based on A Midsummer Night's Dream.

The playbill included a list of songs heard during the "Pyramus and Thisbe" opera sequence, but it's not clear if they were performed in the order they were listed. The songs were listed in this order:

• "Jumpin' at the Woodside"
• "Pick-a-Rib"
• "St. Louis Blues"
• "Ain't Misbehavin'"
• "I Can't Give You Anything But Love"
• "Moonglow"
• "Hold Tight"
• "Melancholy Baby"
• "Christopher Columbus"
• "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans"
• "Dipsy Doodle"
• "Ol' Man Mose Is Dead"
• "Jeepers Creepers"
• "Oh You Crazy Moon"
• "Flat Foot Floogie"
• "Down by the Old Mill Stream"

 

• A Midsummer Night's Dream (source material)