Sinbad (musical)

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Sinbad
Sheet music cover (cropped)
Music Sigmund Romberg
Lyrics Harry Atteridge
Book Harry Atteridge
Productions 1918 Broadway

Sinbad is a Broadway musical with a book by Harry Atteridge, lyrics by Harry Atteridge, and music by Sigmund Romberg, Al Jolson and others.

Produced by Lee Shubert and J. J. Shubert, the Broadway production, staged by J. C. Huffman and J. J. Shubert, opened on February 14, 1918 at the Winter Garden Theatre, where it ran for 164 performances. Cast included Al Jolson, Kitty Doner, Constance Farber, and Forrest Huff.

This show was a “musical comedy” with little purpose other than to provide a vehicle for Al Jolson. He plays a porter in old Bagdad where he meets a series of characters from the Arabian Nights, including Sinbad himself. He is transported to various exotic settings. As with Jolson’s previous shows, songs were interpolated during the run.

Songs

By Sigmund Romberg:

  • Bagdad
  • Our Ancestors
  • A Thousand and One Nights
  • The Rag Lad of Bagdad
  • I Hail from Cairo
  • Bedalumbo
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • It’s Wonderful
  • Raz-Ma-Taz
  • Little Bit of Nationality

By Others:

  • I’ll Tell the World (music by Bud de Sylvia)
  • Darktown Dancin’ School (lyric by Jack Yellen, music by Albert Gemble)
  • I’m Not Jealous (words by Harry Pease, music by Ed G. Nelson and Fred Mayo)
  • My Mammy (words by Joe Young and Sam Lewis, music by Walter Donaldson)
  • Tell That To the Marines (words by Harold Atteridge, music by Jean Schwartz and Al Jolson)
  • I’ll Say She Does (by Bud de Sylva, Gus Kahn and Al Jolson)
  • Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody (by Joe Young, Sam M. Lewis and Jean Schwartz)
  • Hello, Central, Give Me No Man’s Land (by Joe Young, Sam M. Lewis and Jean Schwartz)
  • Why Do They All Take the Night Boat To Albany? (by Joe Young, Sam M. Lewis and Jean Schwartz)
  • Chloe (by Buddy de Sylva and Al Jolson)
  • Swanee (by Irving Caesar and George Gershwin)

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