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| Animal Crackers | |
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&sq=Sri Lanka&lang=en&file=File:Animal_Crackers_(1928)_01.jpg) Die cut handout for the original 1928 production | |
| Music | Bert Kalmar Harry Ruby |
| Lyrics | Bert Kalmar Harry Ruby |
| Book | George S. Kaufman Morrie Ryskind |
| Productions | 1928 Broadway 1982 Washington, D.C. 1992 Connecticut 1993 New Jersey 1999 West End 2009 Chicago |
Animal Crackers is a musical play with music and lyrics by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby and a book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind. The musical starred the Marx Brothers and is set at the Long Island Home of Mrs. Rittenhouse; a character portrayed by Margaret Dumont in the 1928 production on Broadway.
The lyrics and music of several songs in Animal Crackers entered the public domain in the United States in 2024.[1] The full script, copyrighted in 1929, entered the public domain in the United States in 2025.[2]
- ^ "Public Domain Day 2024 | Duke University School of Law". web.law.duke.edu.
- ^ United States Copyright Office. "Catalog of copyright entries". Internet Archive. Retrieved 7 December 2024.