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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/4375
Title'Oh, Kay!' by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse
Extent1 file
Date1926-1929
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Oh, Kay!' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; programme extract inside front cover gives cast list and has typescript dates and changes in cast members; includes photographs of cast members in scenes from the musical

Performed at His Majestys Theatre, London, 21 Sep 1927, closing performance, 24 Mar 1927; lyrics by Ira Gershwin; music by George Gershwin; presented by Musical Plays in conjunction with Alex A. Aarons and Vinton Freedley; staged by William Ritter; scenery by Phil Harker; dances created by Sammy Lee and staged by Elsie Neal; The Empire Theatre, Liverpool, 12 Sep 1927
On tour: 1928: The Opera House, Southport; 1929: The Grand Theatre, Swansea; The Opera House, Cheltenham; 1930-1931: The Royal Theatre, Bournemouth
America: The Imperial Theatre, New York, 8 Nov 1926 (256 performances)

Casts: Gertrude Lawrence, Oscar Shaw, Harland Dixon, Victor Moore, Madeleine Fairbanks, Marion Fairbanks, Janette Gilmore, Rita McLean, Cecile Maude Cole, Beth Dodge, Betty Dodge, Claude Hulbert, Jack Dalmayne, Harold French, April Harmon, John Kirby, Eric Coxon, Percy Parsons, Charles Cautley, Betty Ferris, Reita Nugent, Holland and Barry, Marguerite and Gill, Audrey Tosh, Esme Tosh, George Ide, Charles Brooks, Norah Blaney, Jay Laurier, Paul England, Eddie Childs, Peter Lane, Tom Devine, Denier Warren, Louis Roslyn, Sepha Treble, Dorothy Dobson, Dolly Ruxton, Philippa Ruxton, Elsie Keene, Richard Maxwell, Wallis Noel, Lance George
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