| Leave It to Me! | |
|---|---|
 Original Broadway Playbill | |
| Music | Cole Porter |
| Lyrics | Cole Porter |
| Book | Samuel and Bella Spewack |
| Productions | 1938 Broadway |
Leave It to Me! is a 1938 musical produced by Vinton Freedley with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The book was a collaborative effort by Samuel and Bella Spewack, who also directed the Broadway production. The musical was based on the play Clear All Wires by the Spewacks, which was performed on Broadway for 93 performances in 1932,[1] and which was filmed in 1933, starring Lee Tracy, Benita Hume, Una Merkel and James Gleason.[2]
It was set in Stalinist Russia in the 1930s, with Stalin himself appearing at the end. But its comic treatment of Soviets and Nazis seemed misplaced during the Cold War, and the show was not revived until the late 1980s.[3]
Mary Martin made her Broadway debut in this musical,[4][5] which introduced the songs "Get Out of Town" and "My Heart Belongs to Daddy."
- ^ Clear All Wires on IBDB.com
- ^ Clear All Wires! at IMDb Preview warning: Template:IMDb title is missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
- ^ Gussow, Mel (March 14, 1988). "Reluctant Envoy's Tale: Porter's 'Leave It to Me!'". The New York Times. Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ Ewen, David. "Cole Porter: The Great Sophisticate" theatrehistory.com (originally published in The Story of America's Musical Theater, 1961), accessed January 11, 2011
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