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Sunny

Full-Length Musical, Comedy  /  3w, 3m plus ensemble

Music by Jerome Kern / Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach

A romantic comedy set on a luxury liner, Sunny was the first collaboration of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein.

Sunny

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 3m plus ensemble
  • Duration
    Duration
    More than 120 minutes (2 hours)
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Period, Romantic Comedy
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Appropriate for All Audiences
Sunny

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Summary
Sunny is the female star of a circus act in post-World War I England. Trying to escape a forced marriage with the snooty Mr. Wendell-Wendell, she stows away on a ship heading to New York. After many romantic complications involving two war veterans and their fiancées, Sunny eventually finds love (and U.S. citizenship) as the newly-married wife of Jim Deming.
History
Sunny opened on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre on September 22, 1925, starring Marilyn Miller in the title role and Jack Donahue as Jim Deering. The show played for 517 performances.
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Sunny is the female star of a circus act in post-World War I England. Trying to escape a forced marriage with the snooty Mr. Wendell-Wendell, she stows away on a ship heading to New York. After many romantic complications involving two war veterans and their fiancées, Sunny eventually finds love (and U.S. citizenship) as the newly married wife of Jim Deming.

Principals
(3 female; 3 male)

"Sunny" Peters
"Weenie" Winters
Marcia Manners

Tom Warren
Harold Harcourt Wendell-Wendell
Jim Deming

Supporting

Mamzelle Sadie
Bally Hoo (Angela)
Bob Hunter
Sam
Siegfried Peters
Sue Warren, "Suzette"
Magnolia
Jane Cobb
Millicent Smythe
Diana Miles

Others

First Ship's Officer/Quartermaster
Second Ship's Officer
Ship's Captain

  • Time Period 1920s
  • Features Period Costumes
  • Duration More than 120 minutes (2 hours)

Music

Act I

1. Overture - Orchestra
2. Opening – Ensemble
3. “Sunny” – Tom & Ensemble
4. Entrance of Sunny – Ensemble
5. “Who?” – Sunny & Tom
6. “So’s Your Old Man” – Wendell & Girls
7. “Let’s Say Good-Night” – Jim & Weenie
8. Passengers’ Entrance  - Orchestra
9. “D’ye Love Me?” – Sunny, Tom, & Ensemble
10. “The Wedding Knell” – Sunny & Boys
11. “Blue Bird” – Weenie & Wendell
12. Finale – Omnes

Act II

13. Entr’acte - Orchestra
14. “When We Get Our Divorce” – Sunny & Jim
15. “Sunshine” – Marcia & Boys
16. Finale Ultimo – Omnes
17. Chaser  - Orchestra

  • Musical Style Classic Broadway
  • Dance Requirements Moderate
  • Vocal DemandsEasy
  • Chorus Size Medium

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Jerome Kern

Jerome Kern

Jerome Kern (1885-1945) composed his first complete show, The Red Petticoat, in 1912. Between 1915 and 1919, he composed a series of intimate chamber musicals, mostly in collaboration with Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse, known as the Princess Theatre shows. These works — Very ...

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Oscar Hammerstein II

Oscar Hammerstein II
Oscar Hammerstein II was born on July 12, 1895 in New York City. His father, William, was a theatre manager and for many years director of Hammerstein's Victoria, the most popular vaudeville theatre of its day. His uncle, Arthur Hammerstein, was a successful Broadway producer ...
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