Overview
Synopsis
After meeting the American novelist, Guy Holden, Mimi Pratt will do whatever it takes to get out of her loveless marriage. She ends up staging an affair with a professional co-respondent. When he later runs into her at a seaside resort, she mistakes him for the paid co-respondent she has hired to facilitate her divorce.
Show Information
- Book
- Dwight Taylor , Kenneth Webb , Samuel Hoffenstein
- Music
- Cole Porter
- Lyrics
- Cole Porter
- Category
- Musical
- Age Guidance
- Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)
- Number of Acts
- 2
- Genres
- Cast Size
- large
- Ideal For
- Mostly Female Cast, Large Cast
Context
Plot
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Songs
A song with an asterisk (*) before the title indicates a dance number; a character listed in a song with an asterisk (*) by the character's name indicates that the character exclusively serves as a dancer in this song, which is sung by other characters.
Monologues
Scenes
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