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George Gershwin

Let 'Em Eat Cake

Musical

Composed 1933 Stage

Let 'Em Eat Cake is a 1933 Broadway musical with music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind. A political satire, it tells the story of a fictional American president who fails to get reelected. Inspired by fascism in Europe, he and the former vice president decide to overthrow the government.

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Movements

  1. Overture

Act I

  1. Tweedledee for President
  2. Union Square
  3. Shirts by Millions
  4. Comes the Revolution
  5. Climb Up the Social Ladder
  6. Cloistered from the Noisy City
  7. On and On and On
  8. I've Brushed My Teeth
  9. The General's Gone to a Party
  10. All the Mothers of the Nation

Act II

  1. Blue, Blue, Blue
  2. Who's the Greatest?
  3. The League of Nations
  4. Mine
  5. Up and at 'em
  6. That's What He Did
  7. I Know a Foul Ball
  8. Throttle Throttlebottom
  9. It Isn't What You Did
  10. Mine (Reprise)
  11. First Lady and First Gent
  12. Hang Throttlebottom in the Morning
  13. Fashion Show
  14. Finale

Elsewhere

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