the merriment. Chorus girls left the stage to dance with audience members or sit in their laps. Laundry-filled clotheslines were strung across the theater over the audiences' heads, and some seats were wired with electric buzzers that were triggered during the performance. The sketches were a "smorgasbord of explode-the-fourth-wall nuttiness:... comedy songs; skits abandoned partway through; cameos by audience stooges; an absurdist raffle; and in a trademark stunt, a man who wandered through the theater hawking an ever-larger potted tree". The comedy continued even after the show had ended, as departing audience members discovered the man who'd been carrying the increasingly tall plant waiting for them the lobby, trapped and shouting atop a 20-foot tree. Seeing a painting of a warship, Olsen and Johnson began firing weapons at it until it sank inside the frame. At this point, a soaking wet man in a uniform walked onstage, but was shot to death by the pair because "a captain always goes down with his ship!" As an actress walked the aisles yelling, "Oscar!", another loudly said that she was just going to use the bathroom. When this started to overwhelm, an actor started loudly selling tickets to the competing Broadway show I Married an Angel. Songs Lyrics and music by Sammy Fain and Charles Tobias (unless otherwise noted). Act 1 "Blow a Balloon Up to the Moon" "Fuddle-Dee-Duddle" "A Bedtime Story" "Strolling Thru the Park" "Abe Lincoln" (Music and Lyrics By Earl Robinson and Alfred Hayes) "Shaganola" "It's Time To Say Aloha" Act 2 "Harem on the Loose" "Ol' Man Mose'" (Music and Lyrics By Louis Armstrong and Zilner T. Randolph) "When You Look in Your Looking Glass" (Lyrics By Sam M. Lewis, Music By Paul Mann and Stephen Weiss) "When McGregor Sings Off Key" "Boomps-a-Daisy (I Like a Bustle that Bends)" "We Won't Let It Happen Here" Songs featured during the run also include work by Don George, Teddy Hall, Annette Mills, Gonzalo Curiel, and Oscar Hammerstein II. References External links Hellzapoppin', illustrated article on the Collecting Books and Magazines website Sonny Watson Dance History Pages -- HELLZAPOPPIN, The Play Hellzapoppin study guide, synopsis, background, americancentury.org, 2007 1938 musicals Broadway musicals Lindy Hop Revues 1930s in comedy