Oh, What A Girl!: History and Key Facts
Oh, What A Girl!, also known as Oh, Uncle, is a musical in two acts with music by Jacques Presburg and Charlies Jules; a book and lyrics by Edgar Smith, Edward Clark, and Gus Kahn; The story conc
Oh, What A Girl!, also known as Oh, Uncle, is a musical in two acts with music by Jacques Presburg and Charlies Jules; a book and lyrics by Edgar Smith, Edward Clark, and Gus Kahn; The story concerns rich New York college boy Jack Rushton, whose romantic attachment to cabaret singer Margot Merrivale is opposed by his conservative uncle, Deacon Amos Titmouse, but the deacon finds himself tempted by the city and Margot herself. Jack's old girlfriend and the deacon's teetotaling wife arrive.
The musical was produced by the Shubert family. After tryouts in New Haven, Connecticut, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the show played on Broadway in 1919 and then toured in North America. The work starred Sam Ash as Jack, Harry Kelly as the deacon, and Hazel Kirke as Margot.
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