Follow Thru (musical)

Follow Thru is a musical comedy with book by B. G. DeSylva and Laurence Schwab, lyrics by B. G. DeSylva and Lew Brown, and music by Ray Henderson.

Produced by Laurence Schwab and Frank Mandel, the Broadway production opened on January 9, 1929 at the Chanin's 46th St. Theatre and ran through December 21, 1929 for a total run of 401 performances. The show was directed by Edgar MacGregor, choreographed by Bobby Connolly, and used set designs by Donald Oenslager. The cast included Jack Haley, Zelma O’Neal, John Barker and Eleanor Powell.

Called “a musical slice of country club life”, the plot involved a golf match at a country club. This was the first Broadway success for Eleanor Powell. The show produced several songs that are now standards, including “Button Up Your Overcoat”, “My Lucky Star”, and “I Want to be Bad”.

Musical Numbers

Act I

Scene I: The Bound Brook Country Club, 1908

Opening: The Daring Gibson Girl/The 1908 Life - Ensemble

Old Fashioned Dance - Cynthia and Ensemble

Scene II: On the Golf Links, 1928

It's a Great Sport - Babs, Ruth, Lora and Ensemble

Scene III: At the Sun Porch

My Lucky Star - Jerry and Girls

Button Up Your Overcoat - Angie and Jack

You Wouldn't Fool Me, Would Ya? - Lora and Jerry

Scene IV: Where the Bushes Are Thickest

Scene V: In Front of the Clubhouse

He's a Man's Man - Ruth and Ensemble

Then I'll have Time for you - Babs and Dinty

I Want To Be Bad - Angie

Finaletto - Lora and Jerry

Act II

Scene I: In Front of the Clubhouse

We Couldn't Miss this Match - Chorus

If There Were No More You - Lora and Jerry

I Could Give Up Anything But You - Jack and Angy

Follow Thru - Ruth and Ensemble

Scene II: Near the Clubhouse

Scene III: The Ladies’s Locker Room

Scene IV: On the Fourteenth Hole

Scene V: On the Eighteenth Hole

Scene VI: Where the Bushes are Thickest

I Could Give Up Anything But You - Angy and Jack

Scene VII: The Gate

Finale: You Wouldn't Fool Would Me, Would Ya? - Entire Company

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1929 musicals

Broadway musicals

Musicals set in the Roaring Twenties

Musicals set in the United States

Sports musicals

Golf in fiction