The Girl from Utah

The story concerns an American girl who runs away to London to avoid becoming a wealthy Mormon's newest wife.

The piece opened at the Adelphi Theatre in London on 18 October 1913 and had an initial run of 195 performances.

An American version was produced by Charles Frohman that had a successful run of 140 performances at the Knickerbocker Theatre, opening on August 24, 1914.

Frohman hired the young Jerome Kern to write five new songs for the score together with lyricist Herbert Reynolds to strengthen what he felt was a weak first act.

[3] "They Didn't Believe Me", with its conversational style and modern 4/4 time signature instead of the older waltz style, put Kern in great demand on Broadway and established a pattern for musical comedy love songs that lasted through the 1960s.