THE GATE REVUE (FIRST EDITION)

Composers: Various
Lyricists: Various

Opened: December 19, 1938, Gate Theatre, London, England; transferred on March 9, 1939 to the Ambassadors Theatre, London
Performances: 449 (possibly includes Second Edition performances)

Only A Medium Medium (M: Geoffrey Wright; L: Eric Maschwitz and Charles Hickman) (also used in THE GATE REVUE (SECOND EDITION)):

1. 78/Private Recording GC 5/6 (Hermione Gingold with Clarry Ashton, piano) [reissued as Live At The Café De Paris, CD/Stage Door STAGE 9010]


Spin (M: Geoffrey Wright; L: Nicholas Phipps and Hermione Gingold) (subsequently used in STICKS AND STONES):

1. La Gingold, Dolphin 7 (Hermione Gingold with Buster Davis, piano) [reissued on John Murray Anderson's Almanac And Other Broadway-London Revues, CD/DRG 19009]
2. Live At The Café De Paris, CD/Stage Door STAGE 9010 (Hermione Gingold with Clarry Ashton, piano)


Unrecorded Material:

All Smart Women Must (M: Geoffrey Wright; L: Diana Morgan and Robert MacDermot) (also used in THE GATE REVUE (SECOND EDITION))
Beauty, Beauty (M: Geoffrey Wright; L: Hermione Gingold and Robert MacDermot) (also used in THE GATE REVUE (SECOND EDITION))
The Bitzner (sketch by Reginald Beckwith)
The Busy Streets Of London (M: Geoffrey Wright; L: Nicholas Phipps)
Dance Macabre (M: Geoffrey Wright; L: Nicholas Phipps) (also used in THE GATE REVUE (SECOND EDITION))
Epilogue In Vienna (M: Geoffrey Wright)
The Guardsman (M: Geoffrey Wright; L: Diana Morgan & Peter Dio Titheradge)
Hairdressers' Confessions (sketch; possibly accompanying "Beauty, Beauty")
Happy Ending (M: Ronnie Hill; L: Diana Morgan and Robert MacDermot) (also used in THE GATE REVUE (SECOND EDITION))
Holiday (sketch by Hermione Gingold) (also used in THE GATE REVUE (SECOND EDITION))
Interview With The President (M: Geoffrey Wright; L: Nicholas Phipps)
Lost Property (M: Geoffrey Wright; L: Nicholas Phipps)
Musical Snobs (M: Geoffrey Wright; L: Peter Dion Titheradge)
Open The Show (M: Geoffrey Wright; L: Nicholas Phipps)
Power Of The Press (M: Geoffrey Wright; L: Gerard Bryant)
Royal Occasion (sketch by Reginald Beckwith)
Sick To Death Of Love (M: Geoffrey Wright; L: Gerard Bryant) (also used in THE GATE REVUE (SECOND EDITION))
Smack At The Blacks (M: Geoffrey Wright; L: Arthur Marshall and Charles Hughes)
The Snowman (sketch by Reginald Beckwith)
The Stage Family Robinson (M: Geoffrey Wright; L: Gerard Bryant)
There Has Been A Slump (M: Geoffrey Wright; L: Nicholas Phipps) (also used in THE GATE REVUE (SECOND EDITION))
A Tune To Take Away (M: Geoffrey Wright; L: David Yates Mason)
The Village Inn (M: Geoffrey Wright; L: Diana Morgan and Robert MacDermot)
Washing Up To Shubert (M: Geoffrey Wright; L: Gerard Bryant with dialogue by Hermione Gingold) (also used in THE GATE REVUE (SECOND EDITION))
We've Got You Taped (M: Geoffrey Wright; L: Peter Dion Titheradge)
Wet Week-end (M: Ronnie Hill; L: Diana Morgan and Robert MacDermot)