OH COWARD! Noel Coward Musical Revue Program Patricia Morison Photo filled 1975

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OH COWARD!  Noel Coward Musical Revue Program Patricia (Kiss Me Kate) Morison Photo filled.  1975 National Tour
20 pages.  Paper stock. Black and White.  9 1/4" X 12"
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Oh, Coward!
is a musical revue in two acts devised by Roderick Cook and containing music and lyrics by Noël Coward. The revue consists of two men and one woman in formal dress, performing songs based on the following themes: England, family album, travel, theatre, love and women.
There are also sketches, such as "London Pastoral" which tells of the joys of London in the spring, "Family Album" about relatives who "were not excessively bright", and a scene with excerpts from several of Coward's plays, such as
Private Lives
.
It ran Off-Broadway in 1972, in London in 1975 and on Broadway in 1986.
Oh, Coward!
opened Off-Broadway with a new cast on 4 October 1972 and was one of the last Noël Coward shows staged during his life. It played for 294 performances at the New Theatre. Its cast included Barbara Cason, Jamie Ross and Cook, who also directed the revue.
Eileen
Patricia
Augusta Fraser
Morison
(March 19, 1915 – May 20, 2018) was an American stage, television and film actress of the Golden Age of Hollywood and mezzo-soprano singer.
She made her feature film debut in 1939 after several years on the stage, and amongst her most renowned were
The Fallen Sparrow
,
Dressed to Kill
opposite Basil Rathbone and the screen adaptation of
The Song of Bernadette
. She was lauded as a beauty with large blue eyes and extremely long, dark hair. During this period of her career, she was often cast as the
femme fatale
or "other woman". It was only when she returned to the Broadway stage that she achieved her greatest success as the lead in the original production of Cole Porter's
Kiss Me, Kate
and subsequently in
The King and I
.