Gender
Male
Born
Nov 18, 1909
Died
Jun 25, 1976
Composer Performer Lyricist
Also Known As
John Mercer
Johnny Mercer
  • CREDITS
    Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill (Apr 13, 2014 - Oct 05, 2014)
    Play, Original
    • Additional lyrics by Buddy Johnson, Johnny Mercer, Harry Woods, Bob Russell, Wesley Wilson, Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog, Jr., Jack Lawrence, Peter Tinturin, Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin, Abel Meeropol, Everett Robbins, Porter Grainger, George Cory and Douglas Cross
    Everyday Rapture (Apr 29, 2010 - Jul 11, 2010)
    Musical, Original
    • Featuring songs with lyrics by John Mercer, Ted Koehler, Adam Clayton, Paul David Hewson, Laurence Mullen, Fred Rogers, Gabriel Alexander Roth, Harry Nilsson, Norman Gimbel, E.Y. Harburg, Tom Waits, Tim Rice, Vincent Dimirco and Robbie Robertson
    Come Fly Away (Mar 25, 2010 - Sep 05, 2010)
    Musical, Original
    • Featuring songs by Benny Goodman, Jimmy Mundy, Charles Christian, Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen, Frank Eyton, John Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Bart Howard, Al Hoffman, Walter Kent, Manny Kurtz, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler, Cole Porter, Count Basie, Jon Hendricks, John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis, Roy Alfred, Billy May, Dolores "Vicki" Silvers, Irving Berlin, Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn, Johnny Burke, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Paul Anka, Claude François, Jacques Revaux, Gilles Thibault, John Kander, Fred Ebb, Lew Spence, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Johnny Mercer, Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern, Jule Styne, Henry Mayer, Hans Bradtke, Paul Desmond, Gene de Paul, Dean Kay, Kelly L. Gordon, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Carolyn Leigh, Cy Coleman, Josef Joe Myrow and Mack Gordon
    Never Gonna Dance (Dec 04, 2003 - Feb 15, 2004)
    Musical, Original
    • Featuring songs with lyrics by Dorothy Fields, Johnny Mercer, Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Ira Gershwin, Bernard Dougall, P. G. Wodehouse, Jimmy McHugh and Edward Laska
    Elaine Stritch At Liberty (Feb 21, 2002 - May 26, 2002)
    Special, Original
    • Featuring songs with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, Ira Gershwin, Bob Hilliard, Johnny Mercer, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Arnold B. Horwitt and Lorenz Hart
    Mostly Sondheim (Jan 14, 2002 - Aug 25, 2002)
    Special, Original
    • Featuring songs with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, E.Y. Harburg, Johnny Mercer, Irving Berlin, Jack Yellen, Bob Bigelow, Charles Bates, L. Wolfe Gilbert, Gus Kahn, Carolyn Leigh, Sheldon Harnick and Ralph Blane
    42nd Street (May 02, 2001 - Jan 02, 2005)
    Musical, Revival
    • Additional lyrics by Johnny Mercer and Mort Dixon
    Swing! (Dec 09, 1999 - Jan 14, 2001)
    Musical, Original
    • Featuring songs by Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Benny Goodman, James R. Mundy, Charles Christian, B. Plater, T. Bradshaw, B. Feyhe, Don George, Johnny Hodges, Harry James, Count Basie, Don Raye, Hughie Prince, Ann Hampton Callaway, Casey MacGill, Everett Bradley, Ilene Reid, Jonathan Smith, Sid Kuller, Hoagy Carmichael, Paul Francis Webster, Earl Hagen, Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Paul Kelly, Johnny Mercer, Edgar DeLange, Jerry Gray, Mack Gordon, Harry Warren, Mack David, Joan Whitney, Alex J. Kramer, Jack Murphy, Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, Joe Garland, Lew Brown, Sam H. Stept, Charlie Tobias, Walter Bishop, Lewis Raymond, Clarence Williams, Juan Tizol, Arthur Hamilton, Harold Arlen, Bob Wills, Tommy Duncan, Seymour Simons, Gerald Marks, Dorothy Fields, Otto A. Harbach, Jimmy McHugh, Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, Bill Elliott, Edgar Sampson, Chick Webb, Andy Razaf, Michael Heitzman, E. Johnson, Louis Prima and Leon Berry
    Fosse (Jan 14, 1999 - Aug 25, 2001)
    Musical, Original
    • Featuring songs with lyrics by Mort Dixon, Lew Brown, Dorothy Fields, Neil Diamond, Johnny Mercer, Howard Dietz, Irving Berlin, Richard Adler, Jerry Ross, Cole Porter, Joseph Arrington, Jr., Bob Crosby, Gil Rodin, Billy Rose, Fred Ebb, Stephen Schwartz, Leo Robin, Louis Prima, Andy Razaf, Jerry Jeff Walker, Billy Higgins, Bert Kalmar, Ted Snyder, Frederick K. Tobias and B.G. DeSylva
    Dream (Apr 03, 1997 - Jul 06, 1997)
    Musical, Original
    • Based on the lyrics of Johnny Mercer
    • Featuring songs by Harold Arlen, Rube Bloom, Hoagy Carmichael, Walter Donaldson, Duke Ellington, Ziggy Elman, Bernie Hanighen, Jerome Kern, Matt Malneck, Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer, David Raksin, Victor Schertzinger, Billy Strayhorn, James Van Heusen, Harry Warren and Richard Whiting
    Barbara Cook: A Concert for the Theatre (Apr 15, 1987 - Apr 26, 1987)
    Special, Original
    • Featuring songs with lyrics by Betty Comden, Howard Dietz, Adolph Green, Oscar Hammerstein II, Sheldon Harnick, Lorenz Hart, Gus Kahn, Herbert Martin, Johnny Mercer and Carole Bayer Sager; Lyrics for original songs by David Zippel
    Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood (Jan 23, 1986 - Feb 02, 1986)
    Musical, Original
    • Featuring songs with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, Dorothy Fields, Ira Gershwin, Otto Harbach, Johnny Mercer, E.Y. Harburg, Jimmy McHugh, P. G. Wodehouse, Buddy DeSylva, Gus Kahn, Bernard Dougall and Herbert Reynolds
    Peg (Dec 14, 1983 - Dec 17, 1983)
    Musical, Original
    • Featuring "Fever" by Johnny Davenport and Eddie Cooley; Featuring "Goody, Goody" by Johnny Mercer and Matt Malneck; Featuring "Why Don't You Do Right?" by Joe McCoy; Featuring "I Don't Know Enough About You" and "It's A Good Day" by Dave Barbour; Featuring "Stay Away From Louisville Lou" by Milton Ager; Featuring "Lover" by Richard Rodgers; Featuring "Big Spender" by Cy Coleman; Featuring "Is That All There Is?" by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
    Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Jul 08, 1982 - Jul 11, 1982)
    Musical, Original
    • Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
    Blues in the Night (Jun 02, 1982 - Jul 18, 1982)
    Musical, Original
    • Featuring songs with lyrics by Bessie Smith, Willard Robison, Mack Gordon, Holt Marvell, George W. Thomas, Walter Melrose, Ida Cox, Jimmy Davis, Roger "Ram" Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman, Leola Wilson, Wesley Wilson, Ann Ronell, Andy Razaf, Alex Bellenda, Vernon Duke, Milton Drake, Ben Oakland, H. Grey, Johnny Mercer, Grant Clarke, Alberta Hunter, Jimmy Cox and Ted Koehler
    Sophisticated Ladies (Mar 01, 1981 - Jan 02, 1983)
    Musical, Original
    • Featuring songs with lyrics by Duke Ellington, John Guare, Don George, Juan Tizol, Ervin M. Drake, Hans Lengsfelder, Al Hibbler, Irving Mills, Sid Kuller, Bob Russell, John Redmond, Billy Strayhorn, Nick Kenny, Bill Katz, R. Thiele, Manny Kurtz, Johnny Hodges, Harry James, Johnny Mercer, Lee Gaines, Mack David, Gerald Wilson, Paul Francis Webster and Mitchell Parish
    42nd Street (Aug 25, 1980 - Jan 08, 1989)
    Musical, Original
    • Additional lyrics by Johnny Mercer and Mort Dixon
    A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine (May 01, 1980 - Sep 27, 1981)
    Musical, Original
    • Featuring songs by Jerry Herman, Trevor Lyttleton, Ange Lorenzo, Richard A. Whiting, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, W. Franke Harling, Ralph Rainger, Johnny Mercer, Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston and Hoagy Carmichael
    • Featuring songs with lyrics by Jerry Herman, Frank Lazarus, Leo Robin, Joseph R. Alden, Raymond B. Egan, Cole Porter, E.Y. Harburg, Richard A. Whiting, Sidney Clare, Johnny Mercer, Gus Kahn, Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston, Frank Loesser and Ralph Rainger
    The 1940's Radio Hour (Oct 07, 1979 - Jan 06, 1980)
    Musical, Original
    • Featuring songs with lyrics by Mack Gordon, Bobby Troupe, Ira Gershwin, Johnny Mercer, Jack Yellen, Ralph Freed, Lorenz Hart, Len Mackenzie, Garth Montgomery, William Wirges, Edgar Leslie, Ruth Lowe, Don Raye, Hughie Prince, Paul Francis Webster, Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane and Irving Kahal
    The American Dance Machine (Jun 14, 1978 - Dec 03, 1978)
    Special, Original
    • Featuring songs with lyrics by Leo Robin, Oscar Hammerstein II, Fred Ebb, Carolyn Leigh, Billy Strayhorn, Johnny Mercer, Alan Jay Lerner, Irving Caesar and Sammy Cahn
    Dancin' (Mar 27, 1978 - Jun 27, 1982)
    Musical, Original
    • Featuring songs with lyrics by Neil Diamond, Jerry Jeff Walker, Johnny Mercer, Bob Haggart, Ray Bauduc, Gil Rodin, Bob Crosby, Carole Bayer Sager, Mike Stoller, Cat Stevens, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, George M. Cohan, Oscar Hammerstein II and George Asaf
    Bette Midler's Clams on the Half Shell Revue (Apr 14, 1975 - Jun 22, 1975)
    Special, Original
    • Featuring songs by Alfred Newman, Frank Loesser, Richard Rodgers, Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, Elton John, Bernie Taupin, Alex Harvey, Larry Collins, Bud Green, Les Brown, Ben Homer, John Gary Williams, Susan Taylor, Johnny Mercer, Doris Tauber, Bobby Freeman, Charles Singleton, Eddie Snyder, Bert Kaempfert, Noël Coward, Mark Klingman, Buzzy Linhart, Phoebe Snow, Tom Waits, Lionel Hampton, Benny Goodman, Sid Ramin, John Prine, Don Raye, Hughie Prince, Harry Warren, Al Dubin, Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Phil Spector, Larry Churchill, Larry Morey, Mack David, Jerry Livingston, Al Hoffman, Carl Fischer, Frankie Laine, Joe Garland, Andy Razaf, Barry Manilow, Gary Jackson, Carl Smith and Raynard Miner
    Foxy (Feb 16, 1964 - Apr 18, 1964)
    Musical, Original
    • Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
    Saratoga (Dec 07, 1959 - Feb 13, 1960)
    Musical, Original
    • Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
    Li'l Abner (Nov 15, 1956 - Jul 12, 1958)
    Musical, Original
    • Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
    Mr. Wonderful (Mar 22, 1956 - Feb 23, 1957)
    Musical, Original
    • Featuring songs by Sam Coslow, W. Franke Harling, Sid Kuller, Arthur Hammerstein, Dudley Wilkinson, Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer, Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown, Ray Henderson, Cole Porter, Benny Davis, Harry Akst, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin and Gus Kahn
    Top Banana (Nov 01, 1951 - Oct 04, 1952)
    Musical, Original
    • Music by Johnny Mercer
    • Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
    Texas, Li'l Darlin' (Nov 25, 1949 - Sep 09, 1950)
    Musical, Original
    • Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
    St. Louis Woman (Mar 30, 1946 - Jul 06, 1946)
    Musical, Original
    • Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
    Walk With Music (Jun 04, 1940 - Jul 20, 1940)
    Musical, Original
    • Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
    Swingin' The Dream (Nov 29, 1939 - Dec 09, 1939)
    Musical, Original
    • Lyrics by Eddie de Lange; Lyrics for "Hold Tight-Hold Tight" by Willie Spotswood; Lyrics for "My Melancholy Baby" by George A. Norton; Lyrics for "Way Down Younder in New Orleans" by Larry Clinton; Lyrics for "Ol' Man Mose" by Zilner T. Randolph; Lyrics for "Jeepers Creepers" by Johnny Mercer; Lyrics for "Oh, You Crazy Moon" by Johnny Burke
    Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1939 (Feb 11, 1939 - Feb 18, 1939)
    Musical, Original
    • Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
    Garrick Gaieties (Jun 04, 1930 - Oct 08, 1930)
    Musical, Revival
    • Lyrics by Allen Boretz, Ira Gershwin, E.Y. Harburg, Paul James, Ronald Jeans, John Mercer, Henry Myers, Edward Eliscu, Josiah Titzell, Thomas McKnight, Newman Levy and Marc Blitzstein
    Houseparty (Sep 09, 1929 - Feb 1930)
    Play, Original
    • Performer: John Mercer
      • Student - Original
    Hero Worship (May 11, 1928 - May 11, 1928)
    Play, Original
    • Performer: John Mercer
      • Sam Robbins - Original
    42nd Street (Jul 23, 2002 - May 30, 2004)
    Musical, Revival
    • Additional lyrics by Johnny Mercer and Mort Dixon
    Fosse (Sep 14, 1999 - Feb 17, 2002)
    Musical, Original
    • Featuring songs with lyrics by Mort Dixon, Lew Brown, Dorothy Fields, Neil Diamond, Johnny Mercer, Howard Dietz, Richard Adler, Jerry Ross, Cole Porter, Joseph Arrington, Jr., Bob Crosby, Gil Rodin, Billy Rose, Fred Ebb, Stephen Schwartz, Louis Prima, Jerry Jeff Walker, Billy Higgins, Bert Kalmar, Ted Snyder, Frederick K. Tobias, B.G. DeSylva and Andy Razaf
    Blues in the Night (Mar 09, 1985 - Mar 23, 1985)
    Musical, Original
    • Featuring songs with lyrics by Bessie Smith, Willard Robison, Mack Gordon, Holt Marvell, George W. Thomas, Ida Cox, Jimmy Davis, Roger "Ram" Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman, Leola Wilson, Wesley Wilson, Ann Ronell, Andy Razaf, Alex Bellenda, Vernon Duke, Milton Drake, Ben Oakland, H. Grey, Johnny Mercer, Grant Clarke, Jimmy Cox, Ted Koehler, John La Touche, Ted Fetter and Billy Strayhorn
    42nd Street (Feb 19, 1985 - Jan 26, 1986)
    Musical, Original
    • Other lyrics by Johnny Mercer; Additional lyrics by Mort Dixon
    42nd Street - Los Angeles (Feb 03, 1984 - Dec 02, 1984)
    Musical, Original
    • Other Lyrics by Johnny Mercer and Mort Dixon
    Blues in the Night (Sep 09, 1983 - Mar 30, 1984)
    Musical, Original
    • Featuring songs with lyrics by Bessie Smith, Willard Robison, Mack Gordon, Holt Marvell, George W. Thomas, Ida Cox, Jimmy Davis, Roger "Ram" Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman, Leola Wilson, Wesley Wilson, Ann Ronell, Andy Razaf, Alex Bellenda, Vernon Duke, Milton Drake, Ben Oakland, H. Grey, Johnny Mercer, Grant Clarke, Jimmy Cox, Ted Koehler, John La Touche, Ted Fetter and Billy Strayhorn
    42nd Street (Jan 01, 1983 - Mar 30, 1986)
    Musical, Original
    • Other lyrics by Johnny Mercer and Mort Dixon
    Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Dec 21, 1981 - Jun 19, 1982)
    Musical, Original
    • Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
    A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine (Nov 20, 1981 - May 23, 1982)
    Musical, Original
    • Featuring songs by Jerry Herman, Trevor Lyttleton, Ange Lorenzo, Richard A. Whiting, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, W. Franke Harling, Ralph Rainger, Johnny Mercer, Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston and Hoagy Carmichael
    • Featuring songs with lyrics by Jerry Herman, Frank Lazarus, Leo Robin, Joseph R. Alden, Raymond B. Egan, Cole Porter, E.Y. Harburg, Richard A. Whiting, Sidney Clare, Johnny Mercer, Gus Kahn, Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston and Frank Loesser
    Dancin' (Jul 29, 1980 - Oct 09, 1983)
    Musical, Original
    • Featuring songs with lyrics by Neil Diamond, Jerry Jeff Walker, Johnny Mercer, Bob Haggart, Ray Bauduc, Gil Rodin, Bob Crosby, Melissa Manchester, Carole Bayer Sager, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Cat Stevens, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, George M. Cohan, Oscar Hammerstein II and George Asaf
    Dancin' (Apr 16, 1979 - May 18, 1980)
    Musical, Original
    • Featuring songs with lyrics by Neil Diamond, Jerry Jeff Walker, Johnny Mercer, Bob Haggart, Ray Bauduc, Gil Rodin, Bob Crosby, Melissa Manchester, Carole Bayer Sager, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Cat Stevens, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, George M. Cohan, Oscar Hammerstein II and George Asaf
    Li'l Abner (Nov 19, 1958 - Jan 03, 1959)
    Musical, Original
    • Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
  • AWARDS

    Tony Award®

     

    Best Original Score

    1983 | Nominee  | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
    Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill (Apr 13, 2014 - Oct 05, 2014)
Play, Original
  • Additional lyrics by Buddy Johnson, Johnny Mercer, Harry Woods, Bob Russell, Wesley Wilson, Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog, Jr., Jack Lawrence, Peter Tinturin, Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin, Abel Meeropol, Everett Robbins, Porter Grainger, George Cory and Douglas Cross
Everyday Rapture (Apr 29, 2010 - Jul 11, 2010)
Musical, Original
  • Featuring songs with lyrics by John Mercer, Ted Koehler, Adam Clayton, Paul David Hewson, Laurence Mullen, Fred Rogers, Gabriel Alexander Roth, Harry Nilsson, Norman Gimbel, E.Y. Harburg, Tom Waits, Tim Rice, Vincent Dimirco and Robbie Robertson
Come Fly Away (Mar 25, 2010 - Sep 05, 2010)
Musical, Original
  • Featuring songs by Benny Goodman, Jimmy Mundy, Charles Christian, Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen, Frank Eyton, John Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Bart Howard, Al Hoffman, Walter Kent, Manny Kurtz, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler, Cole Porter, Count Basie, Jon Hendricks, John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis, Roy Alfred, Billy May, Dolores "Vicki" Silvers, Irving Berlin, Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn, Johnny Burke, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Paul Anka, Claude François, Jacques Revaux, Gilles Thibault, John Kander, Fred Ebb, Lew Spence, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Johnny Mercer, Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern, Jule Styne, Henry Mayer, Hans Bradtke, Paul Desmond, Gene de Paul, Dean Kay, Kelly L. Gordon, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Carolyn Leigh, Cy Coleman, Josef Joe Myrow and Mack Gordon
Never Gonna Dance (Dec 04, 2003 - Feb 15, 2004)
Musical, Original
  • Featuring songs with lyrics by Dorothy Fields, Johnny Mercer, Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Ira Gershwin, Bernard Dougall, P. G. Wodehouse, Jimmy McHugh and Edward Laska
Elaine Stritch At Liberty (Feb 21, 2002 - May 26, 2002)
Special, Original
  • Featuring songs with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, Ira Gershwin, Bob Hilliard, Johnny Mercer, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Arnold B. Horwitt and Lorenz Hart
Mostly Sondheim (Jan 14, 2002 - Aug 25, 2002)
Special, Original
  • Featuring songs with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, E.Y. Harburg, Johnny Mercer, Irving Berlin, Jack Yellen, Bob Bigelow, Charles Bates, L. Wolfe Gilbert, Gus Kahn, Carolyn Leigh, Sheldon Harnick and Ralph Blane
42nd Street (May 02, 2001 - Jan 02, 2005)
Musical, Revival
  • Additional lyrics by Johnny Mercer and Mort Dixon
Swing! (Dec 09, 1999 - Jan 14, 2001)
Musical, Original
  • Featuring songs by Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Benny Goodman, James R. Mundy, Charles Christian, B. Plater, T. Bradshaw, B. Feyhe, Don George, Johnny Hodges, Harry James, Count Basie, Don Raye, Hughie Prince, Ann Hampton Callaway, Casey MacGill, Everett Bradley, Ilene Reid, Jonathan Smith, Sid Kuller, Hoagy Carmichael, Paul Francis Webster, Earl Hagen, Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Paul Kelly, Johnny Mercer, Edgar DeLange, Jerry Gray, Mack Gordon, Harry Warren, Mack David, Joan Whitney, Alex J. Kramer, Jack Murphy, Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, Joe Garland, Lew Brown, Sam H. Stept, Charlie Tobias, Walter Bishop, Lewis Raymond, Clarence Williams, Juan Tizol, Arthur Hamilton, Harold Arlen, Bob Wills, Tommy Duncan, Seymour Simons, Gerald Marks, Dorothy Fields, Otto A. Harbach, Jimmy McHugh, Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, Bill Elliott, Edgar Sampson, Chick Webb, Andy Razaf, Michael Heitzman, E. Johnson, Louis Prima and Leon Berry
Fosse (Jan 14, 1999 - Aug 25, 2001)
Musical, Original
  • Featuring songs with lyrics by Mort Dixon, Lew Brown, Dorothy Fields, Neil Diamond, Johnny Mercer, Howard Dietz, Irving Berlin, Richard Adler, Jerry Ross, Cole Porter, Joseph Arrington, Jr., Bob Crosby, Gil Rodin, Billy Rose, Fred Ebb, Stephen Schwartz, Leo Robin, Louis Prima, Andy Razaf, Jerry Jeff Walker, Billy Higgins, Bert Kalmar, Ted Snyder, Frederick K. Tobias and B.G. DeSylva
Dream (Apr 03, 1997 - Jul 06, 1997)
Musical, Original
  • Based on the lyrics of Johnny Mercer
  • Featuring songs by Harold Arlen, Rube Bloom, Hoagy Carmichael, Walter Donaldson, Duke Ellington, Ziggy Elman, Bernie Hanighen, Jerome Kern, Matt Malneck, Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer, David Raksin, Victor Schertzinger, Billy Strayhorn, James Van Heusen, Harry Warren and Richard Whiting
Barbara Cook: A Concert for the Theatre (Apr 15, 1987 - Apr 26, 1987)
Special, Original
  • Featuring songs with lyrics by Betty Comden, Howard Dietz, Adolph Green, Oscar Hammerstein II, Sheldon Harnick, Lorenz Hart, Gus Kahn, Herbert Martin, Johnny Mercer and Carole Bayer Sager; Lyrics for original songs by David Zippel
Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood (Jan 23, 1986 - Feb 02, 1986)
Musical, Original
  • Featuring songs with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, Dorothy Fields, Ira Gershwin, Otto Harbach, Johnny Mercer, E.Y. Harburg, Jimmy McHugh, P. G. Wodehouse, Buddy DeSylva, Gus Kahn, Bernard Dougall and Herbert Reynolds
Peg (Dec 14, 1983 - Dec 17, 1983)
Musical, Original
  • Featuring "Fever" by Johnny Davenport and Eddie Cooley; Featuring "Goody, Goody" by Johnny Mercer and Matt Malneck; Featuring "Why Don't You Do Right?" by Joe McCoy; Featuring "I Don't Know Enough About You" and "It's A Good Day" by Dave Barbour; Featuring "Stay Away From Louisville Lou" by Milton Ager; Featuring "Lover" by Richard Rodgers; Featuring "Big Spender" by Cy Coleman; Featuring "Is That All There Is?" by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Jul 08, 1982 - Jul 11, 1982)
Musical, Original
  • Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Blues in the Night (Jun 02, 1982 - Jul 18, 1982)
Musical, Original
  • Featuring songs with lyrics by Bessie Smith, Willard Robison, Mack Gordon, Holt Marvell, George W. Thomas, Walter Melrose, Ida Cox, Jimmy Davis, Roger "Ram" Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman, Leola Wilson, Wesley Wilson, Ann Ronell, Andy Razaf, Alex Bellenda, Vernon Duke, Milton Drake, Ben Oakland, H. Grey, Johnny Mercer, Grant Clarke, Alberta Hunter, Jimmy Cox and Ted Koehler
Sophisticated Ladies (Mar 01, 1981 - Jan 02, 1983)
Musical, Original
  • Featuring songs with lyrics by Duke Ellington, John Guare, Don George, Juan Tizol, Ervin M. Drake, Hans Lengsfelder, Al Hibbler, Irving Mills, Sid Kuller, Bob Russell, John Redmond, Billy Strayhorn, Nick Kenny, Bill Katz, R. Thiele, Manny Kurtz, Johnny Hodges, Harry James, Johnny Mercer, Lee Gaines, Mack David, Gerald Wilson, Paul Francis Webster and Mitchell Parish
42nd Street (Aug 25, 1980 - Jan 08, 1989)
Musical, Original
  • Additional lyrics by Johnny Mercer and Mort Dixon
A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine (May 01, 1980 - Sep 27, 1981)
Musical, Original
  • Featuring songs by Jerry Herman, Trevor Lyttleton, Ange Lorenzo, Richard A. Whiting, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, W. Franke Harling, Ralph Rainger, Johnny Mercer, Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston and Hoagy Carmichael
  • Featuring songs with lyrics by Jerry Herman, Frank Lazarus, Leo Robin, Joseph R. Alden, Raymond B. Egan, Cole Porter, E.Y. Harburg, Richard A. Whiting, Sidney Clare, Johnny Mercer, Gus Kahn, Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston, Frank Loesser and Ralph Rainger
The 1940's Radio Hour (Oct 07, 1979 - Jan 06, 1980)
Musical, Original
  • Featuring songs with lyrics by Mack Gordon, Bobby Troupe, Ira Gershwin, Johnny Mercer, Jack Yellen, Ralph Freed, Lorenz Hart, Len Mackenzie, Garth Montgomery, William Wirges, Edgar Leslie, Ruth Lowe, Don Raye, Hughie Prince, Paul Francis Webster, Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane and Irving Kahal
The American Dance Machine (Jun 14, 1978 - Dec 03, 1978)
Special, Original
  • Featuring songs with lyrics by Leo Robin, Oscar Hammerstein II, Fred Ebb, Carolyn Leigh, Billy Strayhorn, Johnny Mercer, Alan Jay Lerner, Irving Caesar and Sammy Cahn
Dancin' (Mar 27, 1978 - Jun 27, 1982)
Musical, Original
  • Featuring songs with lyrics by Neil Diamond, Jerry Jeff Walker, Johnny Mercer, Bob Haggart, Ray Bauduc, Gil Rodin, Bob Crosby, Carole Bayer Sager, Mike Stoller, Cat Stevens, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, George M. Cohan, Oscar Hammerstein II and George Asaf
Bette Midler's Clams on the Half Shell Revue (Apr 14, 1975 - Jun 22, 1975)
Special, Original
  • Featuring songs by Alfred Newman, Frank Loesser, Richard Rodgers, Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, Elton John, Bernie Taupin, Alex Harvey, Larry Collins, Bud Green, Les Brown, Ben Homer, John Gary Williams, Susan Taylor, Johnny Mercer, Doris Tauber, Bobby Freeman, Charles Singleton, Eddie Snyder, Bert Kaempfert, Noël Coward, Mark Klingman, Buzzy Linhart, Phoebe Snow, Tom Waits, Lionel Hampton, Benny Goodman, Sid Ramin, John Prine, Don Raye, Hughie Prince, Harry Warren, Al Dubin, Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Phil Spector, Larry Churchill, Larry Morey, Mack David, Jerry Livingston, Al Hoffman, Carl Fischer, Frankie Laine, Joe Garland, Andy Razaf, Barry Manilow, Gary Jackson, Carl Smith and Raynard Miner
Foxy (Feb 16, 1964 - Apr 18, 1964)
Musical, Original
  • Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Saratoga (Dec 07, 1959 - Feb 13, 1960)
Musical, Original
  • Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Li'l Abner (Nov 15, 1956 - Jul 12, 1958)
Musical, Original
  • Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Mr. Wonderful (Mar 22, 1956 - Feb 23, 1957)
Musical, Original
  • Featuring songs by Sam Coslow, W. Franke Harling, Sid Kuller, Arthur Hammerstein, Dudley Wilkinson, Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer, Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown, Ray Henderson, Cole Porter, Benny Davis, Harry Akst, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin and Gus Kahn
Top Banana (Nov 01, 1951 - Oct 04, 1952)
Musical, Original
  • Music by Johnny Mercer
  • Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Texas, Li'l Darlin' (Nov 25, 1949 - Sep 09, 1950)
Musical, Original
  • Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
St. Louis Woman (Mar 30, 1946 - Jul 06, 1946)
Musical, Original
  • Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Walk With Music (Jun 04, 1940 - Jul 20, 1940)
Musical, Original
  • Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Swingin' The Dream (Nov 29, 1939 - Dec 09, 1939)
Musical, Original
  • Lyrics by Eddie de Lange; Lyrics for "Hold Tight-Hold Tight" by Willie Spotswood; Lyrics for "My Melancholy Baby" by George A. Norton; Lyrics for "Way Down Younder in New Orleans" by Larry Clinton; Lyrics for "Ol' Man Mose" by Zilner T. Randolph; Lyrics for "Jeepers Creepers" by Johnny Mercer; Lyrics for "Oh, You Crazy Moon" by Johnny Burke
Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1939 (Feb 11, 1939 - Feb 18, 1939)
Musical, Original
  • Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Garrick Gaieties (Jun 04, 1930 - Oct 08, 1930)
Musical, Revival
  • Lyrics by Allen Boretz, Ira Gershwin, E.Y. Harburg, Paul James, Ronald Jeans, John Mercer, Henry Myers, Edward Eliscu, Josiah Titzell, Thomas McKnight, Newman Levy and Marc Blitzstein
Houseparty (Sep 09, 1929 - Feb 1930)
Play, Original
  • Performer: John Mercer
    • Student - Original
Hero Worship (May 11, 1928 - May 11, 1928)
Play, Original
  • Performer: John Mercer
    • Sam Robbins - Original
42nd Street (Jul 23, 2002 - May 30, 2004)
Musical, Revival
  • Additional lyrics by Johnny Mercer and Mort Dixon
Fosse (Sep 14, 1999 - Feb 17, 2002)
Musical, Original
  • Featuring songs with lyrics by Mort Dixon, Lew Brown, Dorothy Fields, Neil Diamond, Johnny Mercer, Howard Dietz, Richard Adler, Jerry Ross, Cole Porter, Joseph Arrington, Jr., Bob Crosby, Gil Rodin, Billy Rose, Fred Ebb, Stephen Schwartz, Louis Prima, Jerry Jeff Walker, Billy Higgins, Bert Kalmar, Ted Snyder, Frederick K. Tobias, B.G. DeSylva and Andy Razaf
Blues in the Night (Mar 09, 1985 - Mar 23, 1985)
Musical, Original
  • Featuring songs with lyrics by Bessie Smith, Willard Robison, Mack Gordon, Holt Marvell, George W. Thomas, Ida Cox, Jimmy Davis, Roger "Ram" Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman, Leola Wilson, Wesley Wilson, Ann Ronell, Andy Razaf, Alex Bellenda, Vernon Duke, Milton Drake, Ben Oakland, H. Grey, Johnny Mercer, Grant Clarke, Jimmy Cox, Ted Koehler, John La Touche, Ted Fetter and Billy Strayhorn
42nd Street (Feb 19, 1985 - Jan 26, 1986)
Musical, Original
  • Other lyrics by Johnny Mercer; Additional lyrics by Mort Dixon
42nd Street - Los Angeles (Feb 03, 1984 - Dec 02, 1984)
Musical, Original
  • Other Lyrics by Johnny Mercer and Mort Dixon
Blues in the Night (Sep 09, 1983 - Mar 30, 1984)
Musical, Original
  • Featuring songs with lyrics by Bessie Smith, Willard Robison, Mack Gordon, Holt Marvell, George W. Thomas, Ida Cox, Jimmy Davis, Roger "Ram" Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman, Leola Wilson, Wesley Wilson, Ann Ronell, Andy Razaf, Alex Bellenda, Vernon Duke, Milton Drake, Ben Oakland, H. Grey, Johnny Mercer, Grant Clarke, Jimmy Cox, Ted Koehler, John La Touche, Ted Fetter and Billy Strayhorn
42nd Street (Jan 01, 1983 - Mar 30, 1986)
Musical, Original
  • Other lyrics by Johnny Mercer and Mort Dixon
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Dec 21, 1981 - Jun 19, 1982)
Musical, Original
  • Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine (Nov 20, 1981 - May 23, 1982)
Musical, Original
  • Featuring songs by Jerry Herman, Trevor Lyttleton, Ange Lorenzo, Richard A. Whiting, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, W. Franke Harling, Ralph Rainger, Johnny Mercer, Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston and Hoagy Carmichael
  • Featuring songs with lyrics by Jerry Herman, Frank Lazarus, Leo Robin, Joseph R. Alden, Raymond B. Egan, Cole Porter, E.Y. Harburg, Richard A. Whiting, Sidney Clare, Johnny Mercer, Gus Kahn, Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston and Frank Loesser
Dancin' (Jul 29, 1980 - Oct 09, 1983)
Musical, Original
  • Featuring songs with lyrics by Neil Diamond, Jerry Jeff Walker, Johnny Mercer, Bob Haggart, Ray Bauduc, Gil Rodin, Bob Crosby, Melissa Manchester, Carole Bayer Sager, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Cat Stevens, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, George M. Cohan, Oscar Hammerstein II and George Asaf
Dancin' (Apr 16, 1979 - May 18, 1980)
Musical, Original
  • Featuring songs with lyrics by Neil Diamond, Jerry Jeff Walker, Johnny Mercer, Bob Haggart, Ray Bauduc, Gil Rodin, Bob Crosby, Melissa Manchester, Carole Bayer Sager, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Cat Stevens, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, George M. Cohan, Oscar Hammerstein II and George Asaf
Li'l Abner (Nov 19, 1958 - Jan 03, 1959)
Musical, Original
  • Lyrics by Johnny Mercer

Tony Award®

 

Best Original Score

1983 | Nominee  | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Lyrics by Johnny Mercer

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