Wake Up and Dream
Broadway Production
A Musical Revue
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by John Hastings Turner
Opened December 30, 1929
at the Selwyn Theatre, NYC
Ran for 136 performances
Produced by Arch Selwyn
in association with Charles B. Cochran
Staged by Frank Collins
Cast
Jack Buchanan, Jessie Matthews, Tilly Losch, Dave Fitzgibbon, William
Stephens, Frances Shelley, Toni Birkmayer, Tina Meller, Jean Berry, Lance
Lister, Marjorie Brooks, Claude Newman, Wyn Clare, Roy Mitchell, A. B.
Imeson, Greta Wood, Douglas Phillips, Ann Barberova, Mary Tomlinson, and
the Gomez Trio
Musical Numbers
- "Wake Up and Dream" - Jessie Matthews
- "Looking at You" - Jessie Matthews and Dave Fitzgibbon
- "The Banjo That Man Joe Plays" - William Stephens
- "Entrance of Emigrants" - Ensemble
- "What is This Thing Called Love?" - Frances Shelley
- "Operatic Pills" [aka "If You Take One Pill"]
- Jack Buchanan and Ensemble
- "After All, I'm Only a Schoolgirl" - Jessie Matthews
and Ensemble
- "I Dream of a Girl in a Shawl" ["China"
section only] - William Stephens and Tilly Losch
- "I'm a Gigolo" - Jack Buchanan (first two weeks, then
afterward by William Stephens)
- "Which is the Right Life?" [revision of "Which",
written for but unused in Paris] - Jessie
Matthews
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