 In 1971, the revival of the 1925 musical "No, No, Nanette" with film star Ruby Keeler proved to be a hit.Its producer, Harry Rigby, deciding to cash in on the nostalgia craze by reviving another vintage show with another glamorous movie star as its centerpiece, zeroed in on "Irene", engaging Debbie Reynolds to make her Broadway debut in the title role.Rigby hired librettist Hugh Wheeler to rework the show, which retained only five of the original songs and added tunes written by McCarthy with other composers and original numbers by Charles Gaynor and Otis Clements, with additional material written by Wally Harper and Jack Lloyd for the revival.