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Review - I'd Rather Be Obama?

The biggest Broadway event of 1937 was undoubtedly the gala opening night of I'd Rather Be Right.  Not only did the new musical boast a score by Richard Rodger and Lorenz Hart and a book by George S. Kaufman (who also directed) and Moss Hart (the pair had just won that year's Pulitzer for You Can't Take It With You), but the star was no less than the grand old man of Broadway - who many will argue invented the book song and dance musical comedy as we know it today - George M. Cohan, playing the role of then-President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.  Never before and never since has a sitting U.S. president been the leading character in a Broadway musical.

Musicals Tonight presents I'D RATHER BE RIGHT, 2/8-2/20

George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart have set their first musical collaboration with Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in New York's Central Park on July 4th (1937).

Musicals Tonight presents I'D RATHER BE RIGHT, 2/8-2/20

George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart have set their first musical collaboration with Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in New York's Central Park on July 4th (1937).

Fifty Million Frenchmen: They Can't Be Wrong

Lost Musicals revives Cole Porter and Herbert Fields' witty escapist fluff about Americans in Paris

Lee, Pedi, Etc. Set to Find 'Frenchmen' for Lost Musicals

Sondra Lee, Christine Pedi and KT Sullivan will star in Lost Musicals' upcoming staged concert presentation of Cole Porter's '20s musical Fifty Million Frenchmen

Round Table Musical Talk of the Town is Silent, Aug. 7

The Talk of the Town, the musical featuring the witty banter from the illustrious Round Table luncheons, will play its final performance on Monday, August 7th in the Oak Room of the legendary Algonquin Hotel