Girl crazy
Girl Crazy is a musical with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin . The book is by Guy Bolton and John McGowan . Alexander A. Aarons and Vinton Freedley produced the piece. The premiere took place on October 14, 1930 at the Alvin Theater, now the Neil Simon Theater , in New York .
The production starred Ginger Rogers , who played Molly Gray, and Ethel Merman . Ginger Rogers was discovered for Hollywood in this play, Ethel Merman made his debut on Broadway . The later jazz greats Benny Goodman , Glenn Miller , Red Nichols , Jimmy Dorsey , Jack Teagarden and Gene Krupa played in the orchestra .
The German-language premiere took place on September 13, 1963 in the Theater an der Berliner Allee in Düsseldorf; the production was musically accompanied by the Klaus Doldinger Quartet.
Girl Crazy : plot
Danny Churchill, a New York entertainer, inherits a ranch in Arizona and goes there to sell it. On site he meets the woman of his dreams - Molly Gray. However, she is wearing her pants and has not fallen on her head. Danny stays and transforms the ranch into a kind of second Las Vegas . Business is booming, which attracts envious and freeloaders - for example, Danny's former manager Sam Mason, who not only breaks the casino bank, but also targets Molly. At some point the entire society somehow finds itself at a fiesta in Mexico, where there is a robbery, an apparent manslaughter and a chase. In the course of the turbulent plot, Danny and Molly's love goes uphill and downhill, until the two finally arrive at the destination of the marriage.
Girl Crazy : the most famous music numbers
- Bidin 'My Time
- Could You Use Me?
- Embraceable You
- I got rhythm
- But not for me
- You've Got What Gets Me - composed by the Gershwins for 1932 film production
Girl Crazy : Film Adaptations
- 1932 Girl Crazy - Director: William A. Seiter
- 1943 Girl Crazy - Director: Norman Taurog / Busby Berkeley with Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney
- 1965 When the Boys Meet the Girls - Director: Alvin Ganzer with Connie Francis
Crazy for You : revision
Crazy for You is a remake of Girl Crazy . The book was written by Ken Ludwig based on models by Guy Bolton and John McGowan. Broadway premiere was on February 19, 1992 at the Shubert Theater. The German-language premiere was on April 9, 1999 in the Stadttheater Bern , the translation by Markus Hertel and Stefan Huber. Crazy For You contains additional pieces that Gershwin wrote for other musicals or films, including Shall We Dance , Tonight's the Night , They Can't Take That Away from Me, and Nice Work If You Can Get It .
action
Bobby Child, the son of a New York banker, wants to be an actor but has to get a mortgage in Nevada. The property is, of all things, a theater, and he also falls in love with the owner's daughter - Polly Baker. But because he can't win Polly's affection for collecting money, he disguises himself as Broadway producer Zangler and, with the help of his lover Tess, puts on a show that ultimately only succeeds because the right Zangler follows his Tess and intervenes. Bobby, however, gets his Polly because he behaved so honorably throughout the play.
literature
- Charles B. Axton, Otto Zehnder: Reclam's musical guide . Reclam, Ditzingen 2004, ISBN 3-15-010560-9 , ISBN 978-3-15-010560-3
- Review of the premiere of Girl Crazy on October 15, 1930 and of Crazy For You on February 20, 1992 . In: The New York Times .
- Review; Concert Version of the Gershwins' 'Girl Crazy', Alice Tully Hall. In: The New York Times , March 4, 1990
- Review of the launch of Girl Crazy . In: TIME Magazine , October 27, 1930 (English)
Web links
- Girl Crazy on the Internet Broadway Database (IBDb)
- Crazy for You in the Internet Broadway Database (IBDb)
- George & Ira Gershwin Web Site (English)
- Crazy For You . The Guide to Musical Theater (English)
- Crazy For You . felix-bloch-orben.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Thomas Siedhoff: Das Handbuch des Musicals: The most important titles from AZ , 1st edition, Schott Music, Mainz 2007, ISBN 978-3-7957-0154-3 , p. 230.