Crazy For You opened in the West End on 3 March 1993 at the Prince Edward Theatre.įrom his early career Gershwin had ambitions to compose serious music. Crazy For You is loosely based on Girl Crazy, with a new libretto by Ken Ludwig, and has an impressive roster of George and Ira songs including two previously unpublished songs. Over the years, Gershwin songs have also been used in numerous films and in the award-winning stage musicals My One And Only (1983) and Crazy For You, which opened on Broadway in 1992. Funny Face (1927), Strike Up The Band (1927 & 1930), Girl Crazy (1930), and Of Thee I Sing (1931), the first musical comedy to win a Pulitzer Prize. This extraordinary collaboration led to a succession of 22 musical comedies, among them Lady, Be Good! (1924), Oh, Kay! (1926). Working together, they fashioned the words to fit the melodies with a ‘glove-like fidelity’. But it was George and his older brother Ira who became the dominant Broadway songwriters to emerge during the 1920s, creating a ceaseless flow of brisk, infectious rhythms and affectingly poignant ballads. Swanee, introduced by Al Jolson, brought Gershwin his first real fame. At fifteen he quit high school to work as a pianist and ‘song plugger’ for a music publisher, and soon he was writing songs. George Gershwin was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 26 September 1898, and began his musical training at thirteen.
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