Girl Crazy
Girl Crazy is a musical with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. The book was inspired by Guy Bolton and John McGowan. Alex. A. Aarons and Vinton Freedley produced the piece. The premiere took place on 14 October 1930 Alvin Theatre, now the Neil Simon Theatre in New York.
The staging made Ginger Rogers, who played the role of Molly Gray, and Ethel Merman stars. Ginger Rogers was discovered in this piece for Hollywood, Ethel Merman made her debut on Broadway. In the orchestra played the later jazz greats Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Red Nichols, Jimmy Dorsey, Jack Teagarden and Gene Krupa.
The German premiere took place on 13 September 1963 at the Theater an der Berliner Allee in Dusseldorf, musical staging was accompanied by Klaus Doldinger - quartet.
Girl Crazy: Action
Danny Churchill, a New York entertainers, inherits a ranch in Arizona and goes there to sell them. Locally, he meets the woman of his dreams - Molly Gray. However, wears the trousers and has not fallen on his head. Danny remains and transformed the ranch into a kind of second Las Vegas. Business is booming, what envious and parasites calls the plan - for example, Danny's former manager Sam Mason, who not only breaks the casino bank, but it also refrained on Molly. Eventually we find the whole of society somehow on a fiesta in Mexico again, where there is a robbery, an apparent murder and a chase. During the turbulent action it comes with the love of Danny and Molly first uphill, then downhill, until the two finally move into the arrival station of marriage.
Girl Crazy: the best-known musical numbers
- Bidin ' My Time
- Could You Use Me?
- Embraceable You
- I Got Rhythm
- But Not for Me
- You've Got What Gets Me - composed by George Gershwin for the 1932er film production
Girl Crazy: film adaptations
Crazy for You: Revised Edition
Crazy for You is a reworking of Girl Crazy. The book wrote Ken Ludwig for templates by Guy Bolton and John McGowan. Broadway premiere was on 19 February 1992 at the Shubert Theatre. The German -language premiere was on 9 April 1999 at the Stadttheater Bern, translation by Markus Hertel and Stefan Huber. Crazy For You contains additional pieces that Gershwin wrote for other musicals or films, including, among others, Shall We Dance, Tonight's the Night, They Can not Take That Away from Me and Nice Work If You Can Get It
Action
Bobby Child, New York banker son wants to be an actor, but needs to recover a mortgage in Nevada. The property is just a theater, moreover, he falls in love even to the daughter of the owner - Polly Baker. But because he can not win Polly's affection as a debt collector, he disguises himself as a Broadway producer Zangler and, with the help of his beloved Tess a show like this that ultimately only succeed because the right Zangler his Tess follows and engaging. Bobby, however, gets his Polly because he has behaved over the whole piece so honorable.