Wake Up and Dream
Broadway Production
![Wake Up and Dream [sheet music]](graphics/smwake2.jpg)
A Musical Revue
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by John Hastings Turner
Opened December 30, 1929 at the Selwyn Theatre, NYC
Closed April 26, 1930; Ran for 136 performances
Produced by Arch Selwyn
in association with Charles B. Cochran
Staged by Frank Collins
Choreographed by Tilly Losch, Jack Buchanan and Max Rivers
Cast
Jack Buchanan, Jessie Matthews, Tilly Losch, Dave Fitzgibbon, William
Stephens, Frances Shelley, Toni Birkmayer, Tina Meller, Jean Berry, Lance
Lister, Marjorie Brooks, Claude Newman, Wyn Clare, Roy Mitchell, A. B.
Imeson, Douglas Phillips, and the Gomez Trio; some sources include Greta Wood, Ann Barberova, and Mary Tomlinson
Musical Numbers
- "Wake Up and Dream" - Jessie Matthews
- "Looking at You" - Jessie Matthews and Dave Fitzgibbon
- "The Banjo That Man Joe Plays" - William Stephens
- "Entrance of Emigrants" - Ensemble
- "What is This Thing Called Love?" - Frances Shelley
- "Operatic Pills" [aka "If You Take One Pill"]
- Jack Buchanan and Ensemble
- "After All, I'm Only a Schoolgirl" - Jessie Matthews
and Ensemble
- "I Dream of a Girl in a Shawl" ["China"
section only] - William Stephens and Tilly Losch
- "I'm a Gigolo" - Jack Buchanan (first two weeks, then
afterward by William Stephens)
- "Which is the Right Life?" [revision of "Which",
written for but unused in Paris] - Jessie
Matthews
Go to the Original London Production of Wake Up and Dream