The author is grateful to the following rights holders for permission to reprint lyrics:

James David: “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again” by Hal David and Burt Bacharach © 1968 (renewed 1996) Casa David & New Hidden Valley Music. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Tim Rice: “Circle of Life and “Chow Down” by Tim Rice. Used by permission.

Warner Bros. Publications U. S., Inc., Miami FL 33014:
     “Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home” by Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen © 1946 (renewed) Chappell & Co. (ASCAP). All rights reserved. Used by permission.
     “Call Me Mister” by Harold Rome © 1946 (renewed) Warner Bros. Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
     “The Heather on the Hill” by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe © 1947 (renewed) Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. World rights assigned to and administered by EMI U Catalog Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
     “New York, New York” by Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Leonard Bernstein © 1945 (renewed) Warner Bros. Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
     “Night and Day” by Cole Porter © 1932 (renewed) Warner Bros. Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
     “Old Devil Moon” by E. Y. Harburg and Burton Lane © 1946 The Players Music Group. © renewed, assigned to Chappell & Co. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
     “Speak Low” by Ogden Nash and Kurt Weill. TRO © 1943 (renewed) Hampshire House Publishing Corp. and Chappell & Co. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
     “When I’m Not Near the Girl I Love” by E. Y. Harburg and Burton Lane © 1946 The Players Music Group. © renewed, assigned to Chappell & Co. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

All photographs provided by Photofest.

Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

Lewis, David H., 1940–
    Broadway musicals : a hundred year history / by David H. Lewis.
      p.  cm.
    Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index.

    ISBN 0-7864-1269-0

    1. Musicals—United States—History and criticism.  I. Title.
  ML2054 .L48    2002
  782.1'4'097471—dc21
     2002009785

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©2002 David H. Lewis. All rights reserved

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On the cover: Left to right: George M. Cohan with sister Josie and parents Jerry and Nellie on Broadway (Photofest). Background ©2002 Comstock.

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