Hold Everything!
{{Infobox Musical
|name= Hold Everything!
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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
|awards=
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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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External links
- {{ibdb production|id=10743|title=Hold Everything}}
{{Ray Henderson}}
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Category:Musicals set in the Roaring Twenties