We'll Have Manhattan

Rodgers and Hart contributed dozens of hits to the Great American Songbook. We'll Have Manhattan focuses on the first twelve years of their collaboration (1919-1931), documenting their little-known early work and providing a critical and analytical commentary on their developing practice and its influence on the American musical.

Dominic Symonds is Reader in Drama at the University of Lincoln and founding editor of the journal Studies in Musical Theatre. He is also a director and writer for musical theatre.

Introduction: "We'll Have Manhattan"
Chapter One: The Summer Camps and Varsity Shows
Chapter Two: The Breakthrough in Revue: the Garrick Gaieties (1925, 1926) and Fifth Avenue Follies (1926)
Chapter Three: The Rodgers and Hart revolution: Dearest Enemy (1925)
Chapter four: Pleasing the Producers: Herbert Fields, Lew Fields and The Girl Friend (1926)
Chapter Five: A London odyssey: Lido Lady (1926), One Dam Thing After Another (1927), Ever Green (1930)
Chapter Six: Big Fish: Peggy-Ann (1926), Ziegfeld and a flop called Betsy (1926)
Chapter Seven: A commercial success: A Connecticut Yankee (1927)
Chapter Eight: Castration and integration: Chee-Chee (1928)
Chapter Nine: Coping with the Crash
Epilogue: The end of an era
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