Jerome Kern: Encyclopedia II - Jerome Kern - Complete Work for Broadway

Jerome Kern - Complete Work for Broadway

Note: All shows are musical comedies for which Kern was the sole composer unless otherwise specified.

During his first phase of work for Broadway theater (1904-11), Kern wrote songs that were featured in revues or other collaborative musicals and occasionally co-wrote comic musicals with one or two other composers.

• Mr. Wix of Wickham (1904) - co-composer and co-lyricist
• The Catch of the Season (1905) - contributing composer
• The Earl and the Girl (1905) - featured songwriter
• The Rich Mr. Hoggenheimer (1906) - featured songwriter
• The Dairymaids (1907) - featured songwriter
• The Girls of Gottenberg (1908) - featured songwriter for "I Can't Say That You're The Only One"
• Fluffy Ruffles (1908) - co-composer (for eight out of ten songs, including "Fluffly Ruffles")
• Kitty Grey (1909) - featured composer for "If The Girl Wants You (Never Mind the Color of Her Eyes)" and "Just Good Friends"
• The King of Cadonia (1910) - co-composer
• La Belle Paree (1911) - revue - co-composer
• Ziegfeld Follies of 1911 (1911) - revue - featured composer for "I'm a Crazy Daffy-Dill (Daffydil)"

Beginning in 1912, the more-experienced Kern began to work on dramatically-concerned shows, including music for plays, and for the first time in his young career, he wrote musicals as the sole composer. His regular lyricist collaborators during this period were Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Harry B. Smith, Anne Caldwell, and Howard Dietz.

• The Girl from Montmartre (1912) - play - co-incidental music composer
• The "Mind-the-Paint" Girl (1912) - play - incidental music composer
• The Red Petticoat (1912)
• Oh, I Say! (1913)
• When Claudia Smiles (1914) - featured co-lyricist for "Ssh! You'll Waken Mr. Doyle"
• 90 in the Shade (1915)
• Nobody Home (1915) - play - incidental music composer
• Cousin Lucy (1915) - play - incidental music composer
• Miss Information (1915) - play - incidental music composer
• Very Good Eddie (1915)
  • Revived in 1975
• Ziegfeld Follies of 1916 (1916) - revue - featured composer for "When the Lights Are Low", "My Lady of the Nile", and "Ain't It Funny What a Difference Just a Few Drinks Make?"
• Have a Heart (1917)
• Love o' Mike (1917)
• Oh, Boy (1917)
• Ziegfeld Follies of 1917 (1917) - featured composer for "Because You Are Just You (Just Because You're You)"
• Leave It to Jane (1917)
• Oh, Lady! Lady! (1918)
• Toot-Toot! (1918)
• Rock-a-Bye Baby (1918)
• Head Over Heels (1918)
• She's a Good Fellow (1919)
• The Night Boat (1920)
• Hitchy-Koo of 1920 (1920) - revue
• Sally (1920)
  • Revived in 1923, 1948
• Good Morning Dearie (1921)
• The Bunch and Judy (1922)
• Stepping Stones (1923)
• Sitting Pretty (1924)
• Dear Sir (1924)

During the last phase of his life, Jerome Kern continued to work with his previous collaborators but also met Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach, with whom Kern wrote his most lasting, memorable, and well-known works.

• Sunny (1925)
• The City Chap (1925)
• Criss Cross (1926)
• Lucky (1927) - co-composer
• Show Boat (1927) - (3 out of 16 songs were written by others)
  • Revived in 1932, 1946, 1983, 1994
• Sweet Adeline (1929)
• The Cat and the Fiddle (1931) - co-composer, co-lyricist, co-bookwriter, and outliner of orchestrations which were done by Robert Russell Bennett)
• Music in the Air (1932) - composer and co-director
  • Revived in 1951
• Roberta (1933)
• Mamba's Daughters (1939) - play - featured songwriter
  • Revived in 1940
• Very Warm for May (1939)

In addition to revivals of his most popular shows, the music of Jerome Kern was posthumously featured in a variety of revues, musicals, and concerts on Broadway.

• Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood (1986) - revue consisting solely of songs composed by Kern and with lyrics by twelve different writers
• Big Deal (1986) - dance revue - featured composer for "Pick Yourself Up"
• Something Wonderful (1995) - concert celebrating Oscar Hammerstein II's 100th birthday - featured composer
• Paul Robeson (1995) - solo play portraying the life of Robeson - featured composer for "Ol' Man River"
• Dream (1997) - revue - featured composer for "You Were Never Lovelier", "I'm Old Fashioned", and "Dearly Beloved"
• Swing! (1999) - dance revue - featured songwriter for "I Won't Dance"
• Elaine Stritch and Liberty (2002) - solo play - featured songwriter for "All In Fun"
• Never Gonna Dance (2003) - musical consisting solely of songs composed by Kern and with lyrics by nine different writers

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Complete Work for Broadway", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki