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Hay Fever is a comic play written by Noël Coward in 1924. Its first production was in the West End in 1925 with Marie Tempest as Judith Bliss. A cross between high farce and a comedy of manners , the play is set in an English country house in the 1920s, and deals with the four eccentric members of the Bliss family and their outlandish ...
Hay Fever – by Noël Coward; Marathon 33 – by June Havoc; Peter Pan – by J.M. Barrie; Fanny's First Play – by George Bernard Shaw; Night of January 16th – by Ayn Rand; Playing with Fire – by August Strindberg; Salome – by Oscar Wilde; Not in the Book – by Arthur Watkyn; Anything Goes – music and lyrics by Cole Porter, book by ...
Hay Fever, the first of Coward's plays to gain an enduring place in the mainstream theatrical repertoire, also appeared in 1925. It is a comedy about four egocentric members of an artistic family who casually invite acquaintances to their country house for the weekend and bemuse and enrage each other's guests.
Operette is a musical in two acts composed, written and produced by Noël Coward. The show is a period piece, set in the year 1906 at the fictional "Jubilee" theatre. The story concerns an ageing Viennese operetta star, who warns the young ingenue not to marry a nobleman. The piece premiered in 1938.
Noël Coward wrote songs and sketches for On with the Dance while he was acting in his first stage hit, The Vortex. [1] 1925 was a busy year for Coward: two of his plays were premiered in London – Hay Fever, Fallen Angels – and one in New York – Easy Virtue. [2]
Sigh No More is a musical revue consisting of twenty-two scenes and numbers composed, written and produced by Noël Coward, with additional items by Joyce Grenfell, Richard Addinsell and Norman Hackforth. [1] The show was Coward's first post-World War II musical and starred Cyril Ritchard, his wife Madge Elliott and Joyce Grenfell.
Lawrence and Coward in the Broadway production. Tonight at 8.30 [n 1] is a cycle of ten one-act plays by Noël Coward, presented in London in 1936 and in New York in 1936–1937, with the author and Gertrude Lawrence in the leading roles.
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.