Let 'Em Eat Cake

Operetta

Writers: George S. Kaufman Morrie Ryskind George Gershwin Ira Gershwin

Songs

Act One

  • Wintergreen for President - Ensemble
  • Tweedledee for President - Ensemble
  • Union Square - Ensemble
  • Down With Everyone Who's Up - Kruger and Agitators
  • Shirts by Millions - Wives and Ensemble
  • Comes the Revolution - Alexander Throttlebottom and Ensemble
  • Mine - John P. Wintergreen, Mary Wintergreen and Ensemble
  • Climb Up the Social Ladder - Mary Wintergreen, Wives and Ensemble
  • Cloistered from the Noisy City (The Union League) - President of the Union League Club and Club Members
  • Comes the Revolution (Reprise) - Union League Club
  • On and On and On - John P. Wintergreen, John P. Wintergreen, Mary Wintergreen, Mary Wintergreen, Company and Company
  • I've Brushed My Teeth - Gen. Adam Snookfield, U.S.A. and Dignitaries
  • On and On and On (Reprise) - Blue Shirts
  • The General's Gone to a Party - John P. Tweedledee, John P. Wintergreen, Lieutenant and Men
  • All the Mothers of the Nation - Mary Wintergreen, Wives and Girls
  • Yes, He's a Bachelor - John P. Wintergreen, Blue Shirts and Lieutenant
  • There's Something We're Worried About - Lieutenant, Army, Women, John P. Tweedledee and Kruger
  • What's the Proletariat? - Mary Wintergreen, Wives, Committee, Army and All
  • Let 'Em Eat Cake - John P. Wintergreen and Company

Act Two

  • Blue, Blue, Blue - Wives and Ensemble
  • Who's the Greatest? - John P. Wintergreen and Ensemble
  • No Comprenez, No Capish - League of Nations, John P. Wintergreen, Mary Wintergreen and Ensemble
  • Who's the Greatest? (Reprise) - John P. Wintergreen and Ensemble
  • Play Ball - Girls
  • When the Judges Doff the Ermine - President of the Union League Club and Blue Shirts
  • Up and at 'em - Ensemble
  • Oyez, Oyez, Oyez - Soldiers and Spectators
  • That's What He Did - Alexander Throttlebottom, Kruger and Ensemble
  • I Know a Foul Ball - Alexander Throttlebottom
  • Throttle Throttlebottom - Kruger and Ensemble
  • A Hell of a Hole (A Hell of a Fix) - John P. Wintergreen, Kruger and Soldiers
  • Down With Everyone Who's Up (Reprise) - Kruger and Ensemble
  • It Isn't What You Did - John P. Wintergreen and Ensemble
  • Mine (Reprise) - John P. Wintergreen, Mary Wintergreen and Ensemble
  • Let 'Em Eat Caviar - Kruger and Ensemble (music missing)
  • First Lady and First Gent - (replaces Caviar in modern performances)
  • Hang Throttlebottom in the Morning - Lieutenant and Ensemble
  • Fashion Show - Ensemble
  • Finale (Reprise of either Let 'Em Eat Cake or Of Thee I Sing) - Ensemble

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.


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