Gay Divorce

• Original Broadway Production (1932)
  New York, NY
• National Tour (1933)
• London Production (1933)
  London, England
• Film Version (1934)
• Jones Beach Marine Theatre Production (1937)
  New York, NY
• Closed on the road (1941)
• Off-Broadway Revival (1960)
  New York, NY
• Equity Library Theatre Revival (1978)
  New York, NY
• New York Concert (1993)
  New York, NY
• Lost Musicals Concert (2000)
  London, England
• Musicals Tonight! Concert (2004)
  New York, NY

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Original score

• After You, Who?
  • aka After You [no note]
  • aka After You, Who [no note]
• Why Marry Them?
  • aka Why Marry Them [no note]
• Salt Air
• I Still Love the Red, White and Blue
• Night and Day
• How's Your Romance?
  • aka How's Your Romance [no note]
• What Will Become of Our England?
  • aka What Will Become of Our England [no note]
• I've Got You on My Mind
• Mister and Missus Fitch
• You're in Love

Cut during rehearsals

• Fate

Added to London production

• I Love Only You
• Never Say No
• Where Would You Get Your Coat?
• Waiters v. Waitresses
  • aka Waiters vs. Waitresses [no note]

Added to 1934 film version

• The Continental
  • aka Continental [no note]
• Don't Let It Bother You
• A Needle in a Haystack
• Let's K-nock-K-nees
  • aka Let's K-nock K-nees [no note]
  • aka Let's Knock Knees [no note]

Added to 1941 revival

• Alpha to Omega
• My Lord, the Carriage Awaits
• Rhyme or Reason

Added to 1945 revival

• Poor Little Me

Added to 1960 revival

• The Great Indoors
• Rap Tap on Wood
• I'm in Love
• Take Me Back to Manhattan
• It Might Have Been
• I Happen to Be In Love

Added to 1978 revival

• I'm in Love Again
• Please Don't Make Me Be Good
• Why Shouldn't I?
• Pets
• My Cozy Little Corner in the Ritz
• Goodbye, Little Dream, Goodbye

Added to 2004 revival

• Olga

Unused

• A Weekend Affair

Status unknown

• Never Give in to Love
• In Case You Don't Know

Based on an unproduced play by J. Hartley Manners; adaptataion by Kenneth Webb and Samuel Hoffenstein

Guy Holden, an American writer traveling in England, falls madly in love with a woman named Mimi, who disappears after their first encounter. To take his mind off his lost love, his friend Teddy Egbert, a British attorney, takes him to Brighton Beach, where Egbert has arranged for a "paid co-respondent" to assist his client in obtaining a divorce from her boring, aging, geologist husband Robert. What Holden does not know is that the client is none other than Mimi, who in turn mistakes him — because he is too ashamed of his occupation to say what it is, namely pseudonymously writing cheap "bodice ripper" romance novels — for the paid co-respondent.

At the end, when her husband appears, he is unconvinced by the faked adultery—but is then unwittingly revealed, by the waiter at the resort, to have been genuinely adulterous himself.

• The Gay Divorcee (film version)