Too many girls

Too Many Girls is a musical comedy with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart ; the book was written by George Marion Jr. George Abbott produced and directed the musical production. The premiere took place on October 18, 1939 at the Imperial Theater in New York .

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An American college musical.
The somewhat spirited Connie Casey, who comes from a wealthy family, exaggerated it during her stay in Europe, to the liking of her father. To calm her down, Mr. Casey sends her to the remote enough Pottawatomie College in New Mexico. To be on the safe side , he hires four Ivy League football players to be watchdogs. The guys are nice and they also take the college football team to the top, which has not won a game in its 75-year history. One of the guys, Clint, is especially nice; he and Connie fall in love. Just the day before the last big game, Connie finds out that Clint is being paid by her father. Connie then decides to leave college, her four supervisors should follow her - but what about the football team?

Well-known music numbers

•  I Didn't Know What Time It Was
•  I like to recognize the tune
•  Give it back to the Indians
•  You Are Nearer - Composed by Rodgers and Hart for the 1940s film adaptation

filming

• The 1940s RKO Pictures film was also directed by George Abbott .

literature

• Hubert Wildbihler: The international course book for musicals. 2nd Edition. Musical archive Wildbihler, Passau 2001, ISBN 3-928979-40-X .

Web links

• Too many girls. in the Internet Broadway Database (IBDB)
• Too many girls. at www.lorenzhart.org (English)
• Too many girls. In: TIME Magazine . October 30, 1939 (English)