Take a Chance

• Original Broadway Production (1932)
  New York, NY
• Film Version (1933)

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Original score

• The Life of the Party
• Should I Be Sweet?
  • aka Should I Be Sweet [no note]
• So Do I
• I Got Religion
• Revue Sketch: Blackmail
• She's Nuts about Me
• Tickled Pink
• Turn Out the Light
• Charity
• Waltz
• Oh, How I Long to Belong to You
  • aka I Long to Belong to You [no note]
  • aka Oh How I Long to Belong to You [no note]
• Rise and Shine
• Tonight Is Opening Night
• You're an Old Smoothie
• Eadie Was a Lady
• Revue Scene: Daniel Boone's Defense

Cut prior to opening

• My Lover
• I Want to Be with You
• Poppy Smoke
• Polynesia

Added to 1933 film version

• Come Up and See Me Sometime
• Night Owl
• It's Only a Paper Moon

Two small-time gamblers, Duke Stanley and Louie Webb, leave their carnival circuit to seek greater fortunes in the legitimate theater. Their friend Toni Ray wants to be a singer and her Harvard-educated boyfriend, Kenneth Raleigh, also wants to enter show business. They meet a no-nonsense nightclub singer, Wanda Brill. Wanda performs a risque number in a New Orleans club in a red dress and black boa ("Eadie Was a Lady").

Take a Chance was a rewritten version of a previous out-of-town closer, Humpty Dumpty. Within three weeks of that show's demise, the authors had retooled the show. Much of the score and the same general plot was used. Vincent Youmans was brought in to write several new songs.

• Two's Company (working title)
• We Three (no note)
• We're Three (pre-Broadway title)