Red, Hot and Blue!

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Red, Hot and Blue! is a musical comedy with the music and lyrics by Cole Porter and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse . Lindsay was the director of the play produced by Vinton Freedley , which premiered on October 29, 1936 at the Alvin Theater in New York . It was one of five Broadway musicals ( Anything Goes , Du Barry Was a Lady , Panama Hattie , Something for the Boys ) composed for Cole Porter and in which Ethel Merman played the lead role. Jimmy Durante and Bob Hope played next to her .

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"Nails" O'Reilly Duquesne, a former manicurist and wealthy widow whose goal is to help ex-inmates get back on their feet, is running a nationwide lottery to raise funds for the task. Her partners are her lawyer, Bob Hale, with whom she is in love, and ex-inmate "Policy" Pinkle, who misses his comfortable prison life.

However, Bob is still indulging in his great childhood love called Baby. As bait for the lottery, Nails lets search for Bob's long-lost girls - whoever finds them should win half the lottery pot. Baby's distinguishing feature, however, is not the right shoe size as with Cinderella, but a brand on her bottom.

In addition, there is a Senate Finance Committee that wants to use the lottery money to reorganize the state budget, then in the end childhood love is closer than expected and, last but not least, Bob also finds Nails.

Well-known music numbers

  • Down in the Depths (on the Ninetieth Floor)
  • You've got something
  • It's De-Lovely
  • Ridin 'high

literature

  • Bruce Atkinson: The Play; 'Red, Hot and Blue', With Ethel Merman, Jimmy Durante, Bob Hope and a Musical Show . In: The New York Times . October 30, 1936 (review for the premiere).
  • The Theater: New Play in Manhattan . In: TIME Magazine . November 9, 1936 (American English, time.com [accessed March 20, 2007] review).

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