This week's episode may have one of the all-time great backstories in musical theatre history: a woman composes a new Broadway score with her husband during the Great Depression while he works with the US president, and she falls in love with one of the biggest composers of all time.
FINE AND DANDY is much more than its title implies, but it sure does have one humdinger of a "fine and dandy" score. Join producer and musical theatre historian Jennifer Ashley Tepper (54 Below, BE MORE CHILL) this week as we learn more about this piece of our collective musical past, and not the coconut tree from which we did not fall.
We definitely recommend listening to last month's episode on LADY, BE GOOD! with William A. Everett before listening to this one. The crossover was unintentionally inspiring!
You can find the 2004 World Premier Recording of FINE AND DANDY on Spotify and Apple Music.
Pre order Jennifer's new book Women Writing Musicals: The Legacy That the History Books Left Out on Amazon and follow her on Instagram, TikTok, and X @jenashtep.
To learn more about Kay Swift, read her granddaughter's book The Memory of All That: George Gershwin, Kay Swift, and My Family's Legacy of Infidelities
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