Wake Up and Dream

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Wake Up and Dream

Music	Cole Porter
Lyrics	Cole Porter
Book	John Hastings Turner
Productions	1929 Broadway

Wake Up and Dream is a musical with a book by John Hastings Turner, music and lyrics by Cole Porter, staged by Frank Collins, and songs by others.

Produced by Arch Selwyn in association with Charles B. Cochran, the Broadway production, opened on December 30, 1929 at the Selwyn Theatre, where it ran for 136 performances. Cast featured Jack Buchanan, Jessie Matthews, and Tilly Losch.

This show was an English Revue transported to Broadway after it closed in London. It consisted of a series of sketches and songs, the most famous of which is the Cole Porter standard “What Is This Thing Called Love?”

Songs

Act I

Wake Up and Dream
More Incredible Happenings (music and lyrics by Ronald Jeans)
I Loved Him (but he didn’t love me)
Coppelia (music by Leo Delibes)
Operatic Pills
Why Wouldn’t I Do? (music and lyrics by Desmond Carter and Ivor Novello)
She’s Such a Comfort to Me (lyrics by Douglas Furber and Donovan Parsons; music by Arthur Schwartz)
The Banjo That Man Joe Plays
Entrance of Emigrants
Farruca
Saragossa Jota

Act II

What Is This Thing Called Love?
Fancy Our Meeting (lyrics by Douglas Furber; music by Joseph Meyer and Philip Charig)
Gothic (music by Johann Sebastian Bach)

An Old English Folk Song (music and lyrics by Douglas Furber; Jack Buchanan and Charles Prentice)
Romba
(After All, I’m) Only a Schoolgirl
Which Is the Right Lie?
I’m a Gigolo