Watch Your Step (musical)

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Watch Your Step
Irene Castle in a costume by Lucile for Irving Berlin's Watch Your Step, 1914.
Music Irving Berlin
Lyrics Irving Berlin
Book Harry B. Smith
Productions 1914 Broadway

Watch Your Step is a musical with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and a book by Harry B. Smith. It was Irving Berlin's debut musical. The musical introduced songs such as “Play a Simple Melody”, “They Always Follow Me Around”, “When I Discovered You” and “The Syncopated Walk”.

[edit] Productions

The original Broadway production, produced by Charles Dillingham, opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on December 8, 1914 and ran for 175 performances.[1] It featured in the cast Vernon and Irene Castle, Frank Tinney, Elizabeth Murray, Harry Kelly and Justine Johnstone.


[edit] References

  1. ^ Watch Your Step at the IBDB database (Retrieved on November 15, 2007)