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Tip-Toes

Full-Length Musical, Comedy  /  4w, 2m

Book by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson
Lyrics by Ira Gershwin
Music by George Gershwin

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    4w, 2m
  • Duration
    Duration
    More than 120 minutes (2 hours)
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Romantic Comedy
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Appropriate for All Audiences
Tip-Toes

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Summary
Set in Palm Beach, Florida, Tip-Toes centers on a vaudeville act composed of Tip-Toes, her brother and her uncle, who try to pass her off as an aristocrat to snare a millionaire husband. Farcical complications ensue involving Tip-Toes’ temporary amnesia and a marital infidelity subplot. The tuneful Gershwin score includes “Looking For A Boy,” “Sweet and Low Down,” “That Certain Feeling” and the title song.


History
Tip-Toes opened on Broadway at the Liberty Theatre on December 28, 1925, starring Queenie Smith as Tip-Toes, Allen Kearns as Steve Burton, Jeanette MacDonald as Sylvia Metcalf, Andrew Tombes as Al, and Harry Watson Jr. as Hen. The production played for 192 performances. The show was considered lost for decades, but when performance materials were found in a New Jersey warehouse in 1982, Tip-Toes was reconstructed and a studio recording was released in 2001.
  • Time Period 1920s
  • Setting
    Palm Beach, Florida. 1925.
  • Features Period Costumes
  • Duration More than 120 minutes (2 hours)

Music

  • Musical Style Classic Broadway
  • Dance Requirements Moderate
  • Vocal DemandsDifficult
  • Orchestra Size Piano Only
  • Chorus Size No Chorus

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Authors

Guy Bolton

Guy Bolton

Guy Bolton (1884-1979) was born in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, England, on November 23, 1884. Bolton famously collaborated with Jerome Kern and P.G. Wodehouse on a series of buoyant musicals for the 299-seat Princess Theatre, including Have A Heart; Oh, Boy!; Leave It To Jane; ...

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Fred Thompson

Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin, the first songwriter to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize, was born in New York City on December 6, 1896. In 1917 The Evening Sun published his first song (“You May Throw All The Rice You Desire But Please, Friends, Throw No Shoes”). Four years later, Ira enjoyed hi ...

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George Gershwin

George Gershwin

George Gershwin was born in Brooklyn on September 26, 1898, and began his musical training when he was 13. At 16, he quit high school to work as a "song plugger" for a music publisher, and soon he was writing songs himself. "Swanee," as introduced by Al Jolson, brought George ...

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