Animal Crackers (musical)

Animal Crackers
Die cut handout for the original 1928 production
Music	Bert Kalmar Harry Ruby
Lyrics	Bert Kalmar Harry Ruby
Book	George S. Kaufman Morrie Ryskind
Productions	1928 Broadway 1982 Washington, D.C. 1992 Connecticut 1993 New Jersey 1999 West End 2009 Chicago

Animal Crackers is a musical play with music and lyrics by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby and a book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind. The musical starred the Marx Brothers and is set at the Long Island Home of Mrs. Rittenhouse; a character portrayed by Margaret Dumont in the 1928 production on Broadway.

The lyrics and music of Animal Crackers entered the public domain in the United States in 2024.^[1]