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View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1987 Vinyl release of "Of Thee I Sing / Let 'Em Eat Cake" on Discogs.
Many scholars draw parallels between Of Thee I Sing and Duck Soup, suggesting that the musical helped provide inspiration for that Marx Brothers classic. [17] A musical sequel to Of Thee I Sing was written by the same team: Let 'Em Eat Cake was produced on Broadway in 1933, reusing some of the music from its predecessor. However, the sequel was ...
Album · 1987 · 52 Songs
She went on to perform the title role in the original musical comedy The Mystery of Edwin Drood, both on Broadway and in the national tour, and co-starred in Gershwin’s Of Thee I Sing/Let ‘Em Eat Cake, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas.
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1987 CD release of "Of Thee I Sing / Let 'Em Eat Cake" on Discogs.
Let 'Em Eat Cake is a 1933 Broadway musical with music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind. [1] A political satire, it tells the story of a fictional American president who fails to get reelected.
A sequel show to Of Thee I Sing, Let 'Em Eat Cake is not so much a political spoof as a nightmare vision of fascist America, and, as it turned out (with hindsight) to be a satire on "practically everything else." The horrors of the depression and the of the fascist movements in Italy and Germany changed the focus of what would have been a direct satire on American electioneering.
