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See America First : ウィキペディア英語版 | See America First
''See America First'' is a comic opera with a book by T. Lawrason Riggs and music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The first work by Porter to be produced on Broadway, it was a critical and commercial flop. ==Background== Porter and Riggs, classmates at Yale University, wanted to write a spoof of the patriotic George M. Cohan musicals that were popular at the time.〔Green, Stanley, ''The World of Musical Comedy: The Story of the American Musical Stage as Told Through the Careers of Its Foremost Composers and Lyricists''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press 1984. ISBN 0-306-80207-4, pp. 144–145〕 They completed the bulk of their work at the Riggs home in New London, Connecticut, and the script underwent extensive changes between its first draft and the New York opening.〔Kimball, Robert, ''The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press 1992. ISBN 0-306-80483-2, p. 42〕 Four of the songs were interpolated from the 1914 Yale revue ''Paranoia, or Chester of the Y.D.A.''〔Schwartz, Charles, ''Cole Porter: A Biography''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press 1979. ISBN 0-306-80097-7, pp. 41–43〕
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