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This Year of Grace. This Year of Grace[n 1] is a revue with words and music by Noël Coward, produced by Charles B. Cochran in London in March 1928 and by Cochran and Archie Selwyn in New York in November of that year. The London cast was headed by Sonnie Hale, Jessie Matthews and Maisie Gay, and Tilly Losch choreographed and performed in dance ...
Tim Rice said of Coward's songs, "The wit and wisdom of Noël Coward's lyrics will be as lively and contemporary in 100 years' time as they are today", [194] and many have been recorded by Damon Albarn, Ian Bostridge, The Divine Comedy, Elton John, Valerie Masterson, Paul McCartney, Michael Nyman, Pet Shop Boys, Vic Reeves, Sting, Joan ...
Bitter Sweet. (operetta) 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 ...
I Went to a Marvellous Party. I'll Follow My Secret Heart. I'll See You Again. If Love Were All.
Romney Brent sings "Mad Dogs and Englishmen", Words and Music, 1932. " Mad Dogs and Englishmen " is a song written by Noël Coward and first performed in The Third Little Show at the Music Box Theatre, New York, on 1 June 1931, by Beatrice Lillie. The following year it was used in the revue Words and Music and also released in a "studio version".
World Weary. " World Weary " is a popular song written by Noël Coward, for his 1928 musical, This Year of Grace, where it was introduced by Beatrice Lillie. [1]
Noël Coward. Productions. 1932 West End. 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.
Lillie introduced the song to London audiences in June 1939 in cabaret at the Café de Paris, [6] and later in the year it was included in the revue All Clear at the Queen's Theatre. [5] At the midnight gala at the Phoenix Theatre on 5 December 1969, marking Coward's seventieth birthday, Danny La Rue performed the song. [7]