Look After Lulu!

Look After Lulu! is a play by British actor and playwright Noël Coward, based on Occupe-toi d'Amélie by Georges Feydeau. It is set in Paris in 1908. The farcical story concerns an attractive prostitute who is entrusted to a friend by her lover, when he goes into the army. The friend tricks her into a mock wedding.

The play premiered in 1959 on Broadway and then played in London later the same year.

Jean-Louis Barrault and his wife Madeleine Renaud had recently revived Feydeau's farce successfully at the Comédie-Française. They suggested that Coward should adapt it for Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh to play in London. Olivier was not interested, and Leigh was not immediately available. Coward therefore decided to open the play in America first. His first choice to play Lulu was Shirley MacLaine, who was not available; his next choice, Carol Channing, did not wish to play a prostitute. Cyril Ritchard, who directed the production, and Roddy McDowall, who co-starred in it, suggested Tammy Grimes, who had not done a Broadway "book" show; Coward saw her cabaret act and promptly offered her the role.

After a tryout in New Haven, Connecticut, the play premiered on Broadway at the Henry Miller's Theatre on 3 March 1959 and closed on 4 April 1959 after 39 performances. The play featured Grimes, McDowall, Jack Gilford, Ellis Rabb, Barbara Loden and Kurt Kasznar. Time magazine commented, "Coward's dialogue for this turn-of-the-century French farce is broad more often than bright, and Cyril Ritchard's direction is often as agitated as it is agile."

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