Face the Music (musical)

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Face the Music
Music Irving Berlin
Lyrics Irving Berlin
Book Moss Hart
Productions 1932 Broadway
1933 Broadway

Face the Music was a 1932 Broadway musical revue. The show was the first collaboration between Moss Hart (book) and Irving Berlin (music and lyrics). It was directed by George S. Kaufman and featured in the cast Mary Boland. Face the Music ran for 165 performances at the New Amsterdam Theatre.

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[edit] Musical Numbers

  • Lunching at the Automat
  • Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee
  • Torch Song
  • You Must be Born With It
  • On a Roof in Manhattan
  • My Beautiful Rhinestone Girl
  • Soft Lights and Sweet Music
  • I Say It's Spinach (And The Hell With It)
  • A Toast to Prohibition
  • Dear Old Crinoline Days (later reprised in the show as "The Nudist Colony" in an attempt to get the show more publicity)
  • I Don't Want To Be Married
  • Manhattan Madness

[edit] Added Numbers

These songs were added in the touring version of the show that was slightly revised, and these songs were restored in the critically acclaimed 2007 Encores! production at City Center in New York City.

  • Two Cheers Instead of Three
  • The Police Of New York
  • If You Believe
  • How Can I Change My Luck?

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