Let 'Em Eat Cake

• Original Broadway Production (1933)
  New York, NY
• National Tour (1934)
• Regional Revival (1978)
  Stockbridge, MA
• New York Concert (1987)
  New York, NY
• London Concert (1994)
  London, England
• Opera North Production (2009)
• MasterVoices Concert (2019)
  New York, NY

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Original score

• Wintergreen for President
• Tweedledee for President
• Union Square
• Down With Everyone That's Up
• Shirts by Millions
  • aka Shirts by the Millions [no note]
• Comes the Revolution
• Mine
• Climb Up the Social Ladder
  • aka The New Blue D.A.R. [no note]
• Cloistered from the Noisy City
  • aka The Union League [no note]
• On and On and On
• I've Brushed My Teeth
  • aka What More Can a General Do? [no note]
• Double Dummy Drill
  • aka The Double Dummy Drill [no note]
• The General's Gone to a Party
• All the Mothers of the Nation
  • aka Mothers of the Nation [no note]
• Yes, He's a Bachelor
• There's Something We're Worried About
• What's the Proletariat?
• Let 'Em Eat Cake
• Blue, Blue, Blue
  • aka Fashion Show [no note]
• Who's the Greatest--------?
  • aka Who's the Greatest . . .? [no note]
  • aka Who's the Greatest? [no note]
• The League of Nations
• No Comprenez, No Capish
  • aka No Comprenez, No Capish, No Versteh! [no note]
• When Nations Get Together
• Team, Team, Team
• When the Judges Doff the Ermine
  • aka No Better Way to Start a Case [no note]
• Up and At 'Em
• That's What He Did
• I Know a Foul Ball
• Throttle Throttlebottom
• A Hell of a Hole
• It Isn't What You Did
• Let 'Em Eat Caviar
• Hanging Throttlebottom in the Morning
• First Lady and First Gent
• Play Ball
• A Hell of a Hole (A Hell of a Fix)

Cut prior to opening

• Why Speak of Money
  • aka Why Speak of Money When There's Love [no note]
  • aka Why Speak of Money? [no note]
• Oyez! Oyez! Oyez!
  • aka Oyez, Oyez, Oyez [no note]

After losing re-election, John P. Wintergreen whips up a “Blue Shirt” movement promising jobs and justice. With Alexander Throttlebottom and Mary at his side, he topples the new administration, installs loyalists, and turns slogans into show trials and sham reforms. Shortages, graft, and rival opportunists strain the regime as legal and personal scrapes spin into farce. When the crowd’s fervor evaporates, the movement collapses under its own contradictions, leaving Wintergreen to confront the cost of chasing power and the fragility of manufactured glory.

This was a sequel to the wildly successful 1931 musical Of Thee I Sing.