CRISS CROSS

Composer: Jerome Kern
Lyricists: Anne Caldwell; Otto Harbach

Opened: October 12, 1926, Globe Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 210

Cinderella Girl:

1. 78/Victor 20313 (Frank Bessinger with Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra) [reissued on Music Of Broadway: The Twenties Volume 1 (1925-26), JJA (M) 19796]
2. Lost Broadway And More Volume 6: Jerome Kern, CD/Original Cast OC-1399 (Kerry Conte with Michael Levine, piano)


In Araby With You (L: Oscar Hammerstein and Otto Harbach) (same music as "I Can't Forget Your Eyes" in "OH, I SAY!" and as "Sunshine" in SUNNY):

1. 78/Victor 20313 (Frank Bessinger with Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra) [reissued on Music Of Broadway: The Twenties Volume 1 (1925-26), JJA (M) 19796]
2. 78/Columbia 798 D (Charles Kaley with the Ipana Troubadours directed by S. C. Lanin)
3. The First Rose Of Summer, CD/42nd Street Moon MBR 04003 (Bill Fahrner with musical direction by Dave Dobrusky)


That Little Something (L: Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby) (added to the post-Broadway tour in place of "You Will-Won't You?"; later used in LUCKY):

1. 78/Columbia 954 D (Lewis James and The Columbians)
2. 78/Brunswick 3528 (Ben Bernie and His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra)
3. 78/Victor 20616 (Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra)
4. 78/Columbia 50039-D (Columbia Light Opera Company) [reissued on Broadway Through The Gramophone Volume IV, CD/Pearl GEMS 0085]

You Will-Won't You? (same music as "Bought And Paid For" in THE LAUGHING HUSBAND and "I've Looked For Trouble" in the London version of SUNNY):

1. 78/Victor 20313 (Frank Bessinger with Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra) [reissued on Music Of Broadway: The Twenties Volume 1 (1925-26), JJA (M) 19796]
2. 78/Columbia 798 D (Johnny Marvin with the Ipana Troubadours directed by S. C. Lanin)
3. 78/Brunswick 3380 (Colonial Club Orchestra); 78/Okeh 40737 (Lem Cleg with Mike Markels' Orchestra)
4. The First Rose Of Summer, CD/42nd Street Moon MBR 04003 (Stephanie Rhoads with musical direction by Dave Dobrusky)


Unrecorded Material:

The Ali Baba Babies
Bread And Butter (cut)
Cinderella's Ride (dropped for the subsequent tour)
Criss Cross (cut)
Dance Of "The Camel Boys" (inst.)
Dance Of "The Four Leaf Clovers" (inst.)
Dance Of "The Golden Sprite" (inst.)
Dance Of "The Rose Of Delight" (inst.)
Dance Of The Sunshine Girls (inst.)
The Dancers Of The Café Kaboul
Dear Algerian Land
Dreaming Of Allah
Flap-A-Doodle
Finale
Hydrophobia Blues
I Love My Little Susie (Camel Song) (L: Anne Caldwell)
Indignation Meeting
Kiss A Four Leaf Clover (cut)
Leaders Of The Modern Regime
The Portrait Parade
Rose Of Delight
She's On Her Way
(I Love My Little) Susie (L: Anne Caldwell)
Travelogue (inst.)