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Leave It to Jane
''Leave It to Jane'' is a musical in two acts, with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse, based on the 1904 play ''College Widow'', by George Ade. The story concerns the football rivalry between Atwater College and Bingham College, and satirizes college life in a Midwestern U.S. town. A star halfback, Billy, forsakes his father's alma mater, Bingham, to play at Atwater, to be near the seductive Jane, the daughter of Atwater's president.
The musical was created for the Princess Theatre, but another of the "Princess Theatre Shows", ''Oh, Boy!'', was a long-running hit at the Princess at the same time; so ''Leave It to Jane'' premiered instead at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway in 1917.〔〔 and had a long-running Off-Broadway revival in 1959. Some of the best-known songs are "A Peach of Life", "Leave It to Jane", "The Crickets Are Calling", "Siren’s Song", "Sir Galahad" and "Cleopatterer".
==Background==
Early in the 20th century, American musical theatre consisted of a mix of elaborate European operettas, like ''The Merry Widow'' (1907), British musical comedy imports, like''The Arcadians'' (1910), George M. Cohan's shows, American operettas, like those of Victor Herbert, ragtime-infused American musicals, and the spectacular revues of Florenz Ziegfeld and others. But as Cohan's and Herbert's creative output waned, new creative talent was being nurtured on Broadway, including Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin and Sigmund Romberg. Kern began by revising British musicals to suit American audiences, adding songs that "have a timeless, distinctly American sound that redefined the Broadway showtune."〔Kenrick, John. ("History of The Musical Stage 1910-1919: Part I", ''Musicals 101.com: The Cyber Encyclopedia of Musical Theatre, TV and Film'' ), accessed May 27, 2008〕
In 1914, Theatre agent Elisabeth Marbury asked Kern and Bolton to write a series of musicals specifically tailored to the small Princess Theatre with an intimate style and modest budgets, that would provide an alternative to the Ziegfeld reviews, elaborate operettas and imported shows.〔Bloom and Vlastnik, pp. 230–31〕 Kern and Bolton's first Princess Theatre musical was ''Nobody Home'' (1915), an adaptation of a London show called ''Mr. Popple of Ippleton''. Their second was an original musical called ''Very Good Eddie'' (1915). The little show ran for 314 performances on a modest budget.〔 British humorist and lyricist/playwright P. G. Wodehouse had supplied some lyrics for ''Very Good Eddie'' and joined the team at the Princess for ''Oh, Boy!'', which opened in February 1917, becoming a hit.〔Jasen, p. 67〕 In their collaborations, Bolton wrote most of the book, with Wodehouse writing the lyrics.〔Wodehouse, pp. 246–67〕 According to Bloom and Vlastnik, ''Oh, Boy!'' represents "the transition from the haphazard musicals of the past to the newer, more methodical modern musical comedy ... remarkably pun-free (plots that were ) natural and unforced. Charm was uppermost in the creators' minds ... the audience could relax, have a few laughs, feel slightly superior to the silly undertakings on stage, and smile along with the simple, melodic, lyrically witty but undemanding songs".〔Bloom and Vlastnik, p. 277〕
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