in the touring version of the show that was slightly revised, and were restored in the 2007 Encores! production. Two Cheers Instead of Three- Uncle Sam and Ensemble The Police Of New York- Policemen If You Believe- Myrtle Meshbesher and Ensemble How Can I Change My Luck?- Hal Reisman Cast Productions Face the Music opened in Philadelphia on February 3, 1932, for 2 weeks in its pre-Broadway tryout. The musical premiered on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre on February 17, 1932, and closed on July 9, 1932, after 165 performances. Staging was by Hassard Short, direction by George S. Kaufman and choreography by Albertina Rasch. It had a return engagement from January 31, 1933, to February 25, 1933, for 31 performances at the 44th Street Theatre (demolished in 1945). The cast featured Mary Boland (Mrs. Meshbesher), J. Harold Murray (Pat Mason, Jr.), Margot Adams (Miss Eisenheimer), Charles Lawrence (Martin van Buren Meshbesher), Robert Emmett Keane (Hal Reisman), Katherine Carrington (Kit Baker), Thomas Arace (Detective), and The Albertina Rasch Dancers. The 42nd St. Moon (San Francisco) production ran from March 26 - April 13, 1997. The Musicals Tonight! (New York City) production ran in June 2002. Encores! (New York City) presented a staged concert from March 29 to April 1, 2007. Directed by John Rando with choreography by Randy Skinner, the cast featured Judy Kaye (Mrs. Myrtle Meshbesher), Lee Wilkof (Martin van Buren Meshbesher), Walter Bobbie (Hal Reisman), Eddie Korbich as (Joe Malarky), Jeffry Denman (Pat Mason), and Meredith Patterson (Kit Baker). 'Face the Music' was scheduled for a UK Professional Stage Premiere at the Rose and Crown Theatre from 9 June to 3 July 2015. Directed by Brendan Matthew, choreography by Sally Brooks and musical direction by Aaron Clingham. Response Brooks Atkinson, reviewing the original 1932 production for The New York Times, called the musical a "bountiful merry-go-round" of songs and "gibes", writing that it is "bold satire", but has familiar musical comedy numbers, such as the "stunning mirror dance... expressionistic Times Square ballet...and "Dear Old Crinoline Days which is guffawing burlesque." An unnamed reviewer, quoted in the Brown biography Moss Hart, wrote "It's a worthy successor to Of Thee I Sing [but] it doesn't entirely measure up to it. It resorts to slapstick instead of satire. It becomes merely burlesque. All of which doesn't mean that Face the Music isn't a howl. It most emphatically is." The reviewer