OH, I SAY!



Composer: Jerome Kern
Lyricist: Harry B. Smith

Opened: October 30, 1913, Casino Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 68

Note:This show subsequently toured as OH, I SAY! or The Wedding Night, and then as THEIR WEDDING NIGHT.


Alone At Last (different song with same title in VERY GOOD EDDIE; subsequently revised as “In Love” in BLUE EYES):

1. 78/Victor 35363 (Victor Light Opera Company) [reissued on Broadway Through The Gramophone – Volume II, CD/Pearl GEMS 0083]


Each Pearl A Thought (cut after opening):

1. 78/Victor 35363 (Victor Light Opera Company) [reissued on Broadway Through The Gramophone – Volume II, CD/Pearl GEMS 0083]


I Can’t Forget Your Eyes (music later used for “Sunshine” in SUNNY and “In Araby With You” in CRISS-CROSS):

1. 78/Victor 35363 (Victor Light Opera Company) [reissued on Broadway Through The Gramophone – Volume II, CD/Pearl GEMS 0083]


Katy-Did:

1. 78/Victor 35363 (Victor Light Opera Company) [reissued on Broadway Through The Gramophone – Volume II, CD/Pearl GEMS 0083]
2. Very Good Eddie, DRG (S) 6100 (Travis Hudson with orchestra directed by Lynn Crigler) [reissued as CD/DRG CDRG 6100]


The Old Clarinet:

1. 78/Victor 35363 (Victor Light Opera Company) [reissued on Broadway Through The Gramophone – Volume II, CD/Pearl GEMS 0083]


Unrecorded Material:

Finale (Act 1)
Finaletto (Act 2)
Finaletto (Act 3)
Good Bye Everybody (M: Jean Gilbert) (not in programs)
Have An Old Waltz With Me (not in programs)
How Do You Do? (added after opening)
I Know And She Knows
Opening Chorus (Act 1)
Opening Chorus (Act 2)
Opening Chorus (Act 3)
Sidonie (not in programs)
Suzanne (added after opening)
Well, This Is Jolly
A Wife Of Your Own
A Woman’s Heart