[Noel Coward, playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer.] Note Sign Noel, part typed, part autograph, concerning his musical revue Sigh No More with the original programme.

Note, part typed, part autograph, one page, 12mo, some staining, fold marks but text clear, as follows: [MS] My dear [Merton?] | [Typescript] Thank you so very much for your telegram and your welcome good wishes for 'Sigh No More'. | We had a wonderful audience and I must say it looks like a success. [MS] I was so glad you were able to be there even if it was a bit 'last-minute-ish' | MS] Yours | Noel. WITH: Original Programme, bifolium, good condition. On verso, a brief note in another hand Nice - & I thought might amuse you -. Note: Sigh No More is a musical revue consisting of twenty-two scenes and numbers composed, written and produced by No?l Coward, with additional items by Joyce Grenfell, Richard Addinsell and Norman Hackforth. The show was Coward's first post-World War II musical and starred Cyril Ritchard, his wife Madge Elliott and Joyce Grenfell. It also featured Graham Payn, Coward's longtime partner, who sang the best-known song in the show, the wistful Matelot. It opened at the Manchester Opera House on 11 July 1945, before transferring to London's West End, where it opened at the Piccadilly Theatre on 22 August 1945, running for 213 performances and closing on 23 February 1946. Despite its indifferent success, it contained songs that endured in Coward's later cabaret act and elsewhere. (Wikipedia). SEE IMAGE.