Let 'Em Eat Cake
Let 'Em Eat Cake
Music and Lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin
Book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind
ISBN: DIGLIBGP00556
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Overview
A biting sequel to the Pulitzer prize-winning Of Thee I Sing, Let ’Em Eat Cake is a darker, more complex look at politics and American culture in the early 1930s. In this tuneful but edgy satire, President Wintergreen is defeated for reelection, and he and his former Vice President, Alexander Throttlebottom, form an incipient Fascist movement to take over the government. The rousing score from George and Ira Gershwin includes the hit song “Mine.”
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- Time Period: 1930s
- Target Audience: Adult
Authors
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 ...
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 ...
George S. Kaufman
George S. Kaufman was born in Pittsburgh in 1889. During his early career as a reporter and drama critic , he began to write for the theatre. For 40 years, beginning in 1921 with the production of Dulcy, there was rarely a year without a Kaufman play — usually written in coll ...
Morrie Ryskind
Morrie Ryskind, the librettist of Louisiana Purchase, was born in New York City in 1895 and graduated from the Columbia University School of Journalism. His principal collaborator in the theater was George S. Kaufman, with whom he wrote the Marx Brothers musical Animal Cracke ...