Whoop-Up is a musical

Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...

 with a music by Mark Charlap

Mark Charlap

Mark "Moose" Charlap was a Jewish-American Broadway composer. Born Morris Isaac Charlip in Philadelphia, he was best known for "Peter Pan" , for which Carolyn Leigh wrote the lyrics. The idea to do the show came from Jerome Robbins, who planned to have a few songs by Charlap and Leigh...

, lyrics by Norman Gimbel

Norman Gimbel

Norman Gimbel is an American lyricist of popular songs, television and movie themes whose writing career includes such titles as "Sway", "Canadian Sunset", "Summer Samba", "The Girl from Ipanema", "Killing Me Softly With His Song", "Meditation" and "I Will Wait for You", along with an Oscar for...

, and book by Cy Feuer

Cy Feuer

Cy Feuer was an American theatre producer, director, composer, and musician.Born Seymour Arnold Feuerman in Brooklyn, New York,he studied trumpet privately with Max Schlossberg, he became a professional trumpeter at the age of fifteen, working at clubs on weekends to help support his family while...

 and Ernest Martin, based on “Stay Away, Joe” by Dan Cushman. It was directed by Cy Feuer

Cy Feuer

Cy Feuer was an American theatre producer, director, composer, and musician.Born Seymour Arnold Feuerman in Brooklyn, New York,he studied trumpet privately with Max Schlossberg, he became a professional trumpeter at the age of fifteen, working at clubs on weekends to help support his family while...

, with settings and lighting by Jo Mielziner

Jo Mielziner

Joseph "Jo" Mielziner was an American theatrical scenic, and lighting designer born in Paris, France. He is "the most successful set designer of the Golden era of Broadway", and worked on both stage plays and musicals.-Career:He was the son of artist Leo Mielziner, Sr...

 and choreography by Onna White

Onna White

Onna White was a Canadian choreographer and dancer nominated for eight Tony Awards.-Career:Born in Inverness, Nova Scotia, White began taking dance lessons at the age of twelve, and eventually her studies took her to the famed San Francisco Ballet Company, where she danced in the first full-length...

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Produced by Feuer and Martin, the Broadway

Broadway theatre

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 production, opened on December 22, 1958 at the Shubert Theatre

Shubert Theatre (Broadway)

The Shubert Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 225 West 44th Street in midtown-Manhattan, New York, United States.Designed by architect Henry Beaumont Herts, it was named after Sam S. Shubert, the second oldest of the three brothers of the theatrical producing family...

, where it ran for 56 performances. Cast included Sylvia Sims, Paul Ford, Susan Johnson

Susan Johnson (American musical theatre actress)

Susan Johnson , also known as Susan Johnson-Kehn, was an American actress and singer. She appeared primarily in musical theatre, but also appeared in films and television.-Stage and film roles:...

, and Romo Vincent. The plot is described thusly: "Welcome to Glenda's Place - a saloon half-on, half-off a Montana Indian reservation. Glenda's one tough gal, until her native American boyfriend returns after two years on the rodeo circuit."

An original cast recording was made by MGM Records but the show's short run curtailed album sales and the record was soon deleted from the catalog. In 1987 Larry L. Lash at PolyGram Records, which had purchased the MGM catalogue, digitally remastered and reissued Whoop-Up on CD, adding ten bonus tracks of songs from the score performed by pop artists of the day including Connie Francis

Connie Francis

Connie Francis is an American pop singer of Italian heritage and the top-charting female vocalist of the 1950s and 1960s. Although her chart success waned in the second half of the 1960s, Francis remained a top concert draw...

, Maurice Chevalier

Maurice Chevalier

Maurice Auguste Chevalier was a French actor, singer, entertainer and a noted Sprechgesang performer. He is perhaps best known for his signature songs, including Louise, Mimi, Valentine, and Thank Heaven for Little Girls and for his films including The Love Parade and The Big Pond...

 and Rosemary Clooney

Rosemary Clooney

Rosemary Clooney was an American singer and actress. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-a My House" written by William Saroyan and his cousin Ross Bagdasarian , which was followed by other pop numbers such as "Botch-a-Me" Rosemary Clooney (May 23, 1928 –...

, as well as the composers' demo recording of a song cut from the show during out-of-town tryouts. The CD was embraced by Broadway cast album collectors but did not sell well and it, too, was soon deleted. The recording is now owned by Universal Music Group, but Brian Drutman of its Decca Broadway label said that with the weak sales of the previous edition there is little reason for Decca to reissue the title.

Songs

Act I

• Glenda’s Place
• When the Tall Man Talks
• Nobody Throw Those Bull
• Rocky Boy Ceremonial
• Love Eyes
• Men
• Never Before
• Caress Me, Possess Me Perfume
• Flattery
• The Girl In His Arms
• The Best of What This Country’s Got

Act II

• I Wash My Hands
• Quarrel-tet
• Sorry for Myself
• ‘Til the Big Fat Moon Falls Down
• What I Mean to Say
• Montana
• She or Her