"Three Sisters" his 1934 London Musical received its American Premiere in December 2011, 77 years after the original production. The script and score were restored by San Francisco revival theatre company 42nd Street Moon, in a sponsored production by the National Endowment for the Arts.
In the 1940s he and Noël Coward had agreed to collaborate on a future musical play, but Kern's death in 1945 prevented that from happening.
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Pictured on a 22¢ US commemorative postage stamp in the Performing Arts
USA series, issued 1/26/1985 (four days before the 100th anniversary of
his birth).
Often called "the granddaddy of American musical theatre".
"Show Boat" in the Center Theatre Group production at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California was awarded the 1996 Drama Logue Award for Production.
At the time of Kern's successful Princess Theatre musicals, an anonymous poem circulated in their praise. This is the trio of musical fame, Bolton and Wodehouse and Kern. Better than anyone else you can name, Bolton and Wodehouse and Kern.