This is the sequel to the Pulitzer prize winning political satire Of Thee I Sing from 1931.

The script was published in 1933 by Alfred A. Knopf; Lyrics by Ira Gershwin; book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind. Produced by Sam H. Harris.

SONGS (*indicates published song)

Wintergreen for President (Tweedledee for President); Union Square* (not a song, per se); Store Scene (includes three tunes: Shirts by the Millions, Comes the Revolution, & Mine*. Of these only Mine was published); Climb Up the Social Ladder (The New Blue D.A.R.)-this song was dropped soon after the opening in NY, but it has since been put back into the show, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1987, e. g.; Our Hearts Are in Communion; Down with Everything That's Up; The Union League (Cloistered from the Noisy City); On and On and On*; I've Brushed My Teeth; Double Dummy Drill; The General's Gone to a Party; All the Mothers of the Nation; Let 'Em Eat Cake*; Blue, Blue, Blue*; Who's the Greatest?; League of Nations (includes: No Comprenez, No Capish, No Versteh!; Why Speak of Money?); Up and At 'Em!; Oyez, Oyez, Oyez dropped before opening in NY, but included in Pa./voc. score and restored for Brooklyn Academy performances of 1987) That's What He Did; I Know a Foul Ball; Throttle Throttlebottom; It Isn't What You Did But What You Didn't; A Hell of a Hole; Let 'Em Eat Caviar (not extant, replaced in pa./voc. score by First Lady and First Gent); Hanging Throttlebottom in the Morning

According to Edward Jablonski, et al: The following songs were also in the show: Orders, Orders; What More Can a General Do?; What's This/Where's the General?; He's a Bachelor (to the melody of Union League); There's Something We're Worried About; What's the Proletariat?; The Welcome; No Better Way to Start a Case; On to Vict'ry; We're in a Hell of a Jam; I'm About to Be a Mother

Let 'Em Eat Cake was first performed in its out-of-town tryout in Boston, Oct. 2, 1933 with a New York opening on the 21st. The show had ninety performances in New York.

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