Theater

Playbill cover for “Texas, Li’l Darlin’,” showing a stage scene of a couple framed within a display with a man standing beside it in western attire. — *Texas Li’l Darlin’* playbill, 1949.

Johnny Mercer never had as much critical success with theater as he did with films and television, but he kept writing songs for productions until the very last few years of his life. Mercer wrote 23 theatrical productions, including:

St. Louis Woman
Li’l Abner
Saratoga
Top Banana
Texas Li’l Darlin’
The Good Companions
Americana
Foxy
Mike