Let It Ride is a Broadway

Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

 musical based on the 1935 Broadway farce Three Men on a Horse

Three Men on a Horse

Three Men on a Horse is a play by George Abbott and John Cecil Holm. The comedy focuses on a man who discovers he has a talent for choosing the winning horse in a race as long as he never places a bet himself.-Plot:...

by George Abbott

George Abbott

George Francis Abbott was an American theater producer and director, playwright, screenwriter, and film director and producer whose career spanned more than nine decades.-Early years:...

. The musical, with book by Abram S. Ginnes and music and lyrics by Jay Livingston

Jay Livingston

Jay Livingston was an American composer and singer best known as half of a songwriting duo with Ray Evans that specialized in songs composed for films. Livingston wrote the music and Evans the lyrics....

 and Ray Evans

Ray Evans

Raymond Bernard Evans was an American songwriter. He was a partner in a composing and songwriting duo with Jay Livingston, known for the songs they composed for films...

, opened in New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

 at the Eugene O'Neill Theater on October 12, 1961, and played 68 performances. The original production starred George Gobel

George Gobel

George Leslie Gobel was an American comedian and actor. He was best known as the star of his own weekly NBC television show, The George Gobel Show, which ran from 1954 to 1960 .-Early years:He was born George Leslie Goebel in Chicago, Illinois, His father, Hermann Goebel, was a...

, Sam Levene

Sam Levene

Sam Levene was an American Broadway and film actor. He made his Broadway debut in 1927 with five lines in a play titled Wall Street, and over a span of nearly 50 years, appeared on Broadway in 37 Shows, of which 33 were the original Broadway Productions, many now considered legendary...

, Barbara Nichols

Barbara Nichols

Barbara Nichols was an American actress who often played brassy comic roles in a number of films in the 1950s and 1960s.-Early life and Career:...

, and the cast included Paula Stewart

Paula Stewart

Paula Stewart is an American stage, film and television actress.-Life and career:Born as Dorothy Paula Zürndorfer, her father was Dr. Walter Zürndorfer and her mother, Esther Morris, appeared in the films, Ziegfeld Follies and Lady Be Good. She attended Northwestern University before joining the...

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Songs

Act 1

• Run, Run, Run - Singers and Dancers
• The Nicest Thing - Audrey
• Hey, Jimmy, Joe, John, Jim, Jack - Erwin
• Broads Ain't People - Erwin, Harry, Frankie and Charlie
• Let It Ride - Patsy, Singers and Dancers
• I'll Learn Ya - Erwin and Patsy
• Love Let Me Know - Audrey and Carver
• Happy Birthday - Birthday Girls
• Everything Beautiful - Erwin and Birthday Girls
• Who's Doing What to Erwin - Audrey, Chief Schermerhorn, Carver and Mother
• I Wouldn't Have Had To - Mabel

Act II

• There's Something About a Horse - Singers and Dancers
• He Needs You - Erwin, Frankie and Charlie
• Just an Honest Mistake - Chief Schermerhorn, Repulski and Cops
• His Own Little Island - Erwin
• If Flutterby Wins - Erwin, Patsy, Frankie, Charlie, Harry and Hoods