Girl from Utah, The

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | 700+ words | Copyright

Girl from Utah, The (1913), an English musical by James T. Tanner (book), Paul A. Rubens, Sidney Jones (music), Percy Greenbank, and Adrian Ross (lyrics), it told of an American girl who is pursued to England by a Mormon but who is saved from a bigamous marriage by a handsome musical comedy star. Charles Frohman presented the American version at the Knickerbocker Theatre in 1914, with Julia Sanderson, Joseph Cawthorn, and Donald Brian in the leading roles. What made this production so important in American musical theatre history were its Jerome Kern interpolations, in particular “They Didn't Believe Me.” This song singlehandedly established the ascendancy of the modern 4/4 ballad over the older waltz and set the pattern for musical comedy love songs for the next half century or more.

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