THE GAY DIVORCE A Musical Comedy in 2 Acts, 5 Scenes. Book by Dwight Taylor, adapted by Kenneth Webb and Samuel Hoffenstein from an unproduced play (An Adorable Adventure) by J. Hartley Manners. Music and lyrics by Cole Porter. Made into a musical film by RKO Radio Pictures in 1934, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and renamed The Gay Divorcee. Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway - Opened 29th November, 1932: transferred to the Sam S. Shubert Theatre 16th January, 1933: closed 1st July 1933 (248 performances) Palace Theatre, London 2nd November, 1933 (180 performances) Synopsis Guy Holden, an American writer travelling in England, falls madly in love with a woman named Mimi, who disappears after their first encounter. To take his mind off his lost love, his friend Teddy Egbert, a British attorney, takes him to Brighton Beach, where Egbert has arranged for a paid co-respondent to assist his client in obtaining a divorce from her boring, aging, geologist husband. What Holden does not know is that the client is none other than Mimi, who in turn mistakes him—because he is too ashamed of his occupation to say what it is, namely pseudonymously writing cheap bodice ripper romance novels—for the paid co-respondent. At the end, when her husband appears, he is unconvinced by the faked adultery—but is then unwittingly revealed, by the waiter at the resort, to have been genuinely adulterous himself. MUSICAL NUMBERS 1. After You, Who? - Guy 2. Why Marry Them? - Barbara, Girls 3. Salt Air - Teddy, Barbara, Girls 4. I Still Love the Red, White and Blue - Hortense 5. After You, Who? (reprise) - Guy 6. Night and Day - Guy, Mimi 7. How's Your Romance? - Tonetti, Girls 8. What Will Become of Our England? - Waiter, Girls 9. I've Got You on My Mind - Guy, Mimi 10. Mr. and Mrs. Fitch - Hortense 11. You're in Love - Guy, Mimi, Tonetti CAST - (in order of appearance) Robert Teddy Guy Gladys Vivian Doris Barbara Phyllis Joan Joyce Waiter Ann Hortense Mimi Porter Tonetti Pat Diana Claire Elaine Edith Evelyn Beatrice Elizabeth Mr. Pratt
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