Bring On the Girls!

By P. G. Wodehouse, Guy Bolton

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Humor & Entertainment

Bring On the Girls! (1953), by P. G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton, is a lightly fictionalized account of their decades writing musical comedies for Broadway and the London stage. They recall how they met, how they wrote the small Princess Theatre shows with the composer Jerome Kern, and how they handled producers, stars and chorus girls. Real events mix freely with anecdotes polished for laughs, so not every story is literal fact.

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• Fareed Zakaria: “P. G. Wodehouse. I’ve read almost everything he wrote. He once explained that there were two ways of writing novels. “One is mine, making the thing a sort of musical comedy without music, ignoring real life altogether; the other is going right down deep into life and not caring a damn.” He did the former better than almost anyone.”