The story is set in 1911 London at the time of George V's coronation. American-born chorus girl Mary Morgan becomes involved with Balkanarchduke Charles, the widowed prince regent of Carpathia, after he sees a performance of her West End musical The Coconut Girl. She soon becomes involved with the actions of his teenaged son, King Nicholas, as well as the Queen Mother. A peripheral character, fish-and-chips peddler Ada Cockle, appears to be present solely to entertain the audience with a rousing fifteen-minute rendition of traditional Cockney tunes.
Henderson and O'Shea were singled out for praise by the critics — Henderson for her one-woman delivery of an abridged version of The Coconut Girl, and O'Shea for her extended song-and-dance routine of Cockney tunes. Otherwise, the review by the influential critic Walter Kerr in the Herald Tribune was mostly negative. He and others felt the show was an unsuccessful attempt to duplicate the success of the earlier My Fair Lady. [5][6][3]
O'Shea won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. Nominations also went to Coward and Kurnitz for Best Author of a Musical and Irene Sharaff for Best Costume Design.[4]
The show proved to be the last with a Coward score and the only one of his musicals never produced in London.
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The Girl Who Came to Supper is a musical with a book by Harry Kurnitz and music and lyrics by Noel Coward based on Terence Rattigan s 1953 play The Sleeping Prince The musical premiered on Broadway in 1963 The Girl Who Came to SupperOriginal Cast RecordingMusicNoel CowardLyricsNoel CowardBookHarry KurnitzBasisTerence Rattigan s play The Sleeping PrinceProductions1963 Broadway Contents 1 Plot 2 Production 3 Song list 4 Awards and nominations 4 1 Original Broadway production 5 Notes 6 References 7 External linksPlot EditThe story is set in 1911 London at the time of George V s coronation American born chorus girl Mary Morgan becomes involved with Balkan archduke Charles the widowed prince regent of Carpathia after he sees a performance of her West End musical The Coconut Girl She soon becomes involved with the actions of his teenaged son King Nicholas as well as the Queen Mother A peripheral character fish and chips peddler Ada Cockle appears to be present solely to entertain the audience with a rousing fifteen minute rendition of traditional Cockney tunes Production EditRattigan s play had been staged in London with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh on Broadway with Michael Redgrave and Barbara Bel Geddes and filmed as The Prince and the Showgirl with Olivier and Marilyn Monroe 1 so its story was a fairly familiar one The musical opened to rave reviews in Boston but was received less favorably by the critics in Toronto During its Philadelphia run President Kennedy was assassinated necessitating the replacement of the opening number Long Live the King If He Can 2 3 The musical opened on Broadway directed and choreographed by Joe Layton on December 8 1963 at The Broadway Theatre where it ran for 112 performances and four previews The cast featured Florence Henderson as Mary Jose Ferrer as Charles Irene Browne as the Queen Mother Sean Scully as Nicholas British music hall star Tessie O Shea as Ada Cockle and Roderick Cook as Peter Northbrook 4 Henderson and O Shea were singled out for praise by the critics Henderson for her one woman delivery of an abridged version of The Coconut Girl and O Shea for her extended song and dance routine of Cockney tunes Otherwise the review by the influential critic Walter Kerr in the Herald Tribune was mostly negative He and others felt the show was an unsuccessful attempt to duplicate the success of the earlier My Fair Lady 5 6 3 O Shea won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical Nominations also went to Coward and Kurnitz for Best Author of a Musical and Irene Sharaff for Best Costume Design 4 The show proved to be the last with a Coward score and the only one of his musicals never produced in London An original cast recording was released on the Columbia Records label Reissue Sony Broadway SK 48210 7 1 Song list EditAct ISwing Song Yasni Kozkolai Carpathian National Anthem My Family Tree I ve Been Invited to a Party Waltz I ve Been Invited to a Party Reprise When Foreign Princes Come to Visit Us Sir or Ma am Soliloquies Lonely London is a Little Bit of All Right What Ho Mrs Brisket Don t Take Our Charlie for the Army Saturday Night at the Rose and Crown London Is a Little Bit of All Right Reprise Here and Now I ve Been Invited to a Party Reprise Soliloquies Reprise Act IICoronation Chorale How Do You Do Middle Age Here and Now Reprise The Stingaree Curt Clear and Concise Tango Welcome to Pootzie Van Doyle The Coconut Girl Paddy MacNeill and His Automobile Swing Song Reprise Six Lillies of the Valley The Walla Walla Boola This Time It s True Love I ll Remember HerAwards and nominations EditOriginal Broadway production Edit Year Award Category Nominee Result1964 Tony Award Best Author Noel Coward and Harry Kurnitz NominatedBest Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical Tessie O Shea WonBest Costume Design Irene Sharaff NominatedNotes Edit a b Ruhlmann William Cast Recording allmusic com accessed December 5 2016 The Girl Who Came to Supper Listing noelcowardmusic com accessed December 5 2016 a b Mandelbaum Ken The Girl Who Came to Supper Not Since Carrie Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops Macmillan 1992 ISBN 0312082738 pp 120 123 a b The Girl Who Came to Supper Broadway Playbill vault accessed December 5 2016 Theater Disaster Area Time Magazine abstract December 20 1963 accessed December 5 2016 subscription required Kenrick John The Girl Who Came to Supper musicals101 com 2000 rev 2003 accessed December 5 2016 Synopsis The Guide to Musical Theatre accessed December 5 2016References EditNot Since Carrie Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops by Ken Mandelbaum published by St Martin s Press 1991 pages 120 23 ISBN 0 312 06428 4 External links Edit The Girl Who Came to Supper at the Internet Broadway Database Synopsis at The Guide to Musical Theatre Synopsis and other information at Noel Coward Music com Ovrtur com Listing Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title The Girl Who Came to Supper amp oldid 1148861368, wikipedia, wiki, 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