Hip! Hip! Hooray! (1907 musical)

Cover of the sheet music for the song "A College Yell" from the 1907 musical Hip! Hip! Hooray!

Hip! Hip! Hooray! is a musical in two acts with music by Gus Edwards and both lyrics and book by Edgar Smith.[1]

History

Hip! Hip! Hooray! was written as a starring vehicle for the comedian Joe Weber, premiering on Broadway at Weber's Music Hall on October 10, 1907. It ran at that theatre for 64 performances, closing on December 7, 1907.[2]

Plot

The plot takes place at the fictional Doolittle College where two German professors attempt to popularize a new breakfast cereal, "Excited Oats", while simultaneously getting entangled into their own individual romances, one with a widow and the other with a beautiful young woman.[3]

References

Citations

1. Bloom, p. 483
2. Dietz, p. 448
3. Bordman & Norton, p. 277

Bibliography

• Bloom, Ken (1996). "Hip! Hip! Hooray! (1907)". American Song: A-S. Schirmer Books. ISBN 9780028645735.
• Bordman, Gerald Martin; Norton, Richard (2010). American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199729708.
• Dietz, Dan (2022). "Hip! Hip! Hooray!". The Complete Book of 1900s Broadway Musicals. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 9781538168943.

External links

• ​Hip! Hip! Hooray!​ at the Internet Broadway Database