it far above the ordinary". Coward later said of the show, "Words and Music was almost a very good revue, but it wasn't quite. I've never quite made up my mind why. It could possibly have been my fault. But it wasn't entirely. It had no great big star in it, though there was a wonderful cast." The show was revised and opened on Broadway in 1939 with the title Set to Music. In 2013 Lost Musicals presented the show in concert at the intimate Lilian Baylis Studio of Sadler's Wells Theatre in London. Ian Marshall Fisher directed the production, which was Lost Musicals' first and only British show, as Fisher found that he was unable to reconstruct the American version, Set to Music. The cast included Issy van Randwyck. Sketches One sketch was titled "Journey's End", and was a parody of the R. C. Sherriff play of the same name. It "camps up carnage...balloons being flung onto the stage...and the orchestra playing Deutschland über Alles. Another sketch, singled out for praise by both The Manchester Guardian and The Daily Mirror, was "Children's Hour" in which Coward satirised the pretensions of adults by putting their high-flown remarks into the mouths of children. The sketch ended with the song "Let’s Live Dangerously", "a merry little skit on present day habits" Songs (In the order printed in The Lyrics of Noël Coward, pp. 114–18): Maggie (opening chorus) Débutantes Let's Live Dangerously Children of the Ritz Mad Dogs and Englishmen Planters' Wives Let's Say Good-bye The Hall of Fame Mad About the Boy Journey's End Housemaids' Knees Three White Feathers Description of Ballets Something to Do With Spring The Wife of an Acrobat The Younger Generation Midnight Matinée The Party's Over Now The Noël Coward Society's website, drawing on performing statistics from the publishers and the Performing Rights Society, names "Mad About the Boy" as Coward's most popular song. "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" is also among the top ten most performed Coward songs. "The Party's Over Now" ranks in the top thirty of Coward songs. Notes References Coward, Noël. The Lyrics of Noël Coward, Heinemann, London, 1965. Castle, Charles. Noël, Sphere Books, London, 1974. 1932 musicals Revues Musicals by Noël Coward