On with the Dance (musical)

[1] 1925 was a busy year for Coward: two of his plays were premiered in London – Hay Fever, Fallen Angels – and one in New York – Easy Virtue.[4] As well as the star, Alice Delysia, the cast included Hermione Baddeley, Ernest Thesiger, Nigel Bruce and Douglas Byng.[5][6] The best-known song from the show is Coward's "Poor Little Rich Girl", sung by Delysia as a French maid, warning her English employer (Baddeley) of the perils of life as a debauched bright young thing.[5] A second edition of the revue, called Still Dancing, ran from November 1925 to February 1926, also with Delysia, Bruce, Thesinger and Baddeley, and again choreographed by Massine, receiving warm reviews.[8][9] The ballets remained from the original show but none of Coward's material was retained; the book was by Arthur Wimperis and Ronald Jeans, with lyrics by Philip Braham, Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake, and music by Ivor Novello, Irving Berlin, Vivian Ellis and Isham Jones.

stage scene with kneeling man partially undressing a young woman — Leonid Massine (kneeling) in the *Rake's Progress* ballet from *On with the Dance*

line drawing of blonde white woman, standing, singing to young, brunette white woman, seated — Alice Delysia and Hermione Baddeley in "Poor Little Rich Girl"

two white men in drag — Ernest Thesiger and Douglas Byng *en travesti* in the sketch "Oranges and Lemons"

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