Face the Music
Face the Music
Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin
Book by Moss Hart
Encores! Concert Adaptation by David Ives
ISBN: DIGLIB0000143
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Overview
Originally presented on Broadway by the legendary Sam Harris, Face the Music opened at the New Amsterdam Theater on February 17, 1932, and ran for 165 performances, before touring and then returning to Broadway's Forty-Fourth Street Theater. Sharply satirical, its humor both timely and timeless, Face the Music combined a piquant Moss Hart script with a superlative Irving Berlin score that featured such soon-to-be standards as "Let's Have Another Cup Of Coffee," "Soft Lights And Sweet Music," the ground-breaking "Manhattan Madness," and the utterly unique "I Say Its Spinach (And The Hell With It)."
After lying dormant for nearly seven decades, Face the Music was lovingly and painstakingly restored by a team of musical archivists led by R&H Director of Music Bruce Pomahac. With an adaptation by David Ives, direction by John Rando and choreography by Randy Skinner, Face the Music proved to be the discovery of the 14th season of City Center's Encores!: Great American Musicals in Concert.
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- Genre: Christmas/Holiday
- Time Period: 1930s
- Cast Attributes: Ensemble Cast
- Target Audience: Appropriate for All Audiences
Authors
Irving Berlin
With a life that spanned more than 100 years and a catalogue that boasts over 1,000 songs, Irving Berlin (1888-1989) epitomized Jerome Kern’s famous maxim that “Irving Berlin has no place in American music – he is American music.” Berlin wrote scores to 13 Broadway musicals, ...
Moss Hart
Moss Hart (1904-1961) began his career as a playwright, director and producer in 1930 when, with George S. Kaufman, he wrote Once in a Lifetime. Subsequent Kaufman and Hart successes include Merrily We Roll Along, You Can't Take It With You and The Man Who Came To Dinner, amo ...