Roberta
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|music= [[Jerome Kern]]
|lyrics= [[Otto Harbach]]
|book= Otto Harbach
|basis= ''Gowns by Roberta'', a novel by [[Alice Duer Miller]]
|productions= [[1933]] [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]]
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'''''Roberta''''' is a musical from [[1933]] with music by [[Jerome Kern]], and lyrics and book by [[Otto Harbach]]. The musical is based on the novel ''Gowns by Roberta'' by [[Alice Duer Miller]]. The play notably features the famed songs "[[Yesterdays (Otto Harbach and Jerome Kern song)|Yesterdays]]", "[[Smoke Gets in Your Eyes]]", "You're Devastating", and "The Touch of Your Hand".
==Productions==
The original [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] production opened at the [[New Amsterdam Theatre]] on [[November 18]] [[1933]], and ran for 295 performances. It starred [[Tamara Drasin]] (billed as Tamara), [[Bob Hope]], [[George Murphy]], [[Lyda Roberti]], [[Fred MacMurray]], [[Fay Templeton]], [[Ray Middleton]] (billed as Raymond E. Middleton), and [[Sydney Greenstreet]]. Hope, Murphy, MacMurray and Greenstreet were not yet the [[Hollywood]] stars they would soon be, and Middleton was not the Broadway leading man he would become after ''[[Annie Get Your Gun]]''.
==Other versions==
The play was made into a film in [[1935 in film|1935]] by [[RKO]] starring [[Irene Dunne]], [[Fred Astaire]], [[Ginger Rogers]], and [[Randolph Scott]]. The film omitted "The Touch of Your Hand" (sung by a minor character), and "You're Devastating" (originally Middleton's big song in the show), but added the Kern songs "[[I Won't Dance]]" and "Lovely to Look At", which became so popular that they are now always included in revivals and recordings of ''Roberta''.
In [[1952 in film|1952]], [[MGM]] remade ''Roberta'' under the title ''Lovely to Look At''. This remake also included the additional songs written for the 1935 film. It starred [[Kathryn Grayson]], [[Howard Keel]], [[Red Skelton]], [[Ann Miller]], and [[Zsa Zsa Gabor]] and was made in [[Technicolor]].
The show was also presented on television in a highly adapted, modernized 1969 [[NBC]] color telecast. This production was presented by [[Bob Hope]], who reprised his original stage role, inserting many new, then-topical jokes about current events. Others in the cast included [[Michele Lee]], [[John Davidson (entertainer)|John Davidson]], and [[Janis Paige]] (who sang "[[I Won't Dance]]" with a male chorus).
==External links==
*[http://www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=11791 ''Roberta'' at Broadway Internet Database]
[[Category:1933 musicals]]
[[Category:Broadway musicals]]
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