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Appeared in the same plays (with the exception of Star Chamber) National, New York 1942 Charles Condomine in his own play, Blithe Spirit. [n 28] St James's Toured in "Noël Coward's Play Parade" as Charles Condomine and as Garry Essendine and Frank Gibbons in his own plays, Present Laughter and This Happy Breed: 1943
Tonight at 8.30 was followed by a musical, Operette (1938), from which the most famous number is "The Stately Homes of England", and a revue entitled Set to Music (1938, a Broadway version of his 1932 London revue, Words and Music). [67] Coward's last pre-war plays were This Happy Breed, a drama about a working-class family, and Present ...
Words and Music is a musical revue with sketches, music, lyrics and direction by Noël Coward. The revue introduced the song "Mad About the Boy", which, according to The Noël Coward Society's website, is Coward's most popular song. The critics praised the show's sharp satire and verbal cleverness.
Private Lives is a 1930 comedy of manners in three acts by Noël Coward.It concerns a divorced couple who, while honeymooning with their new spouses, discover that they are staying in adjacent rooms at the same hotel.
Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald in the 1940 film version, described by Coward as "dreadful" Bitter Sweet is an operetta in three acts, with book, music and lyrics by Noël Coward . The story, set in nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century England and Austria-Hungary , centres on a young woman's elopement with her music teacher.
Mr Coward, after returning thanks to all concerned, said: "After all, it is a pretty exciting thing in these days to be English". And therein lies the whole secret of Cavalcade—it is a magnificent play in which the note of national pride pervading every scene and every sentence must make each one of us face the future with courage and high hopes.
Set to Music is a musical revue with sketches, music and lyrics by Noël Coward. Produced by John C. Wilson , the Broadway production opened on January 15, 1939 at the Music Box Theatre , where it ran for 129 performances.