Peggy Ann

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

Peggy Ann (1926), a musical comedy by Herbert Fields (book), Richard Rodgers (music), Lorenz Hart (lyrics). [Vanderbilt Theatre, 333 perf.] Peggy Ann ( Helen Ford) drudges along, helping her mother run a boarding house, hoping to marry Guy Pendleton ( Lester Cole), and spending much of her waking time daydreaming of a better life. She dreams of all sorts of riches and adventures, from shopping on Fifth Avenue to fending off pirates. Only Guy's proposal brings her back to reality. Notable songs: A Tree in the Park; Where's That Rainbow?; Maybe It's Me. The musical used the same basic story that co‐producer Lew Fields had employed in Tillie's Nightmare, a musical he had mounted in 1910 as a vehicle for Marie Dressler. But the new treatment was unusually adventurous for 1926, with no splashy opening, a quiet finale with only Peggy on stage, much use of Freudian symbolism, and sets changed as the audience watched.

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