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Gay Divorce (1932) is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and book by Kenneth Webb and Samuel Hoffenstein. It was Fred Astaire's last Broadway show and featured the hit "Night and Day."
It was made into a Hollywood musical film in (1934) starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and renamed The Gay Divorcee.

Plot

Guy Holden, an American writer traveling in England, falls madly in love with a woman named Mimi, who disappears after their first encounter. To take his mind off his lost love, his friend Teddy Egbert, a British attorney, takes him to Brighton Beach, where Egbert has arranged for a "paid corespondent" to assist his client in obtaining a divorce from her boring, aging, geologist husband. What Holden doesn't know is that the client is none other than Mimi, who in turn mistakes him (because he's too ashamed of his occupation to say what it is, namely pseudonymously writing cheap "bodice-ripper" romances) for the paid corespondent.
At the end, when her husband appears, he's unconvinced by the faked adultery -- but is then unwittingly revealed, by the waiter at the resort, to have been genuinely adulterous himself.

Songs

Act I

After You, Who?
Why Marry Them?
Salt Air
I Still Love the Red, White and Blue
After You, Who? (Reprise)
Night and Day
How's Your Romance?
Act II
What Will Become of Our England?
I've Got You on My Mind
Mr. and Mrs. Fitch
You're in Love

Broadway production

The show opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on November 29, 1932 and transferred to the Shubert Theatre on January 16, 1933 for a total run of 248 performances. It was directed by Howard Lindsay. Cast:

Fred Astaire as Guy Holden

Claire Luce as Mimi

Luella Gear as Hortense

G. P. Huntley Jr as Teddy

Betty Starbuck as Barbara Wray

Erik Rhodes as Tonetti

Eric Blore as Waiter

Roland Bottomley as Pratt

London production

The show opened at the Palace Theatre on November 2, 1933 and ran for 180 performances. It was directed by Felix Edwardes and starred the original leads of Fred Astaire and Claire Luce. They were joined by Olive Blakeney as Gertrude Howard, Claud Allister as Teddy, Joan Gardner as Barbara Wray, Erik Rhodes as Tonetti, Eric Blore as Waiter, and Fred Hearne as Octavius Mann.

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