Hold Everything!

{{Infobox Musical

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|image= Hold Everything.jpg

|caption= Sheet music cover (cropped)

|music= Ray Henderson

|lyrics= Lew Brown and B. G. de Sylva

|book= John McGowan and B. G. de Sylva

|productions= 1928 Broadway

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Hold Everything! is a musical comedy with lyrics by Lew Brown and B. G. de Sylva, music by Ray Henderson, and has an accompanying book by John McGowan and B. G. de Sylva. A musical about professional boxing, the work's central character is welterweight Sonny Jim Brooks.{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GzeiySJZXF4C&dq=Hold+Everything+1928+musical&pg=PA202|chapter=Hold Everything!|page=202|title=Broadway Plays and Musicals: Descriptions and Essential Facts of More Than 14,000 Shows Through 2007|author=Thomas S. Hischak|year=2009|isbn=9780786453092|publisher=McFarland & Company}} The musical takes place at "Pop" O'Keefe's Training Camp on Long Island; at the Hotel Wood; and at Madison Square Garden, New York.

Produced by Alex A. Aarons and Vinton Freedley, the Broadway production opened on 10 October 1928 at the Broadhurst Theatre for a total run of 409 performances. The cast included Jack Whiting as Sonny Jim Brooks, Bert Lahr as Brooks' sidekick, Gink Schiner; Ona Munson as Brooks' love interest, Sue Burke; Betty Compton as high society dame and villainess Norine Lloyd, Edmund Elton as "Pop" O'Keefe, and Victor Moore as "Nosey" Bartlett.

Bert Lahr had a critical triumph with this production which made him a star. The most famous song from the show is “You're the Cream in My Coffee”. In 1930, Warner Brothers produced a movie version Hold Everything filmed entirely in Technicolor. Survives in Black and White.

Songs

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Act I

  • We’re Calling on Mr. Brooks
  • An Outdoor man for My Indoor Sports
  • Footwork
  • You're the Cream in My Coffee
  • When I Love, I Love
  • Too Good To Be True
  • To Know You Is To Love You
  • Don't Hold Everything

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Act II

  • For Sweet Charity's Sake
  • Genealogy
  • Oh, Gosh
  • It's All Over but the Shoutin’

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References

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