Editing Whoopee! (section)

==Response==
[[Brooks Atkinson]], the theatre critic for ''[[The New York Times]]'', reviewed the 1928 Broadway production and called it "a gorgeous spectacle" with "long stretches of excellent comedy". He especially praised the comedic abilities of Eddie Cantor, "a comedian of deftness and appealing humor. He is sad; he is preoccupied; he is apprehensive or insinuating with those floating eyes...In the past he has been funny, clever and ludicrious. But he has never been so enjoyable." As to the music, "Walter Donaldson has composed an appropriate score worthy of better singing than it falls heir to."<ref>{{cite news |last=Atkinson |first=Brooks |title=THE PLAY; Players' Cooperative Started. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1928/12/05/archives/the-play-players-cooperative-started.html |access-date=April 3, 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=December 5, 1928 |page=L40}}</ref>

The ''[[New York Times]]'' critic Richard Eder called the 1979 Broadway revival a "frequent delight though not an unmitigated one...Most strikingly, it is a superabundance of songs. There is not a poor song in it, and its best ones — the lovely and musically witty "Makin' Whoopee", the jiggly "My Baby Just Cares for Me", and of course the irresistible "Yes Sir, That's My Baby" — are magnificent."<ref>{{cite news |last=Eder |first=Richard |title=Stage: 'Whoopee!', Revival of 1928 Musical |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/02/15/archives/stage-whoopee-revival-of-1928-musical-burlesque-wild-west.html |access-date=April 3, 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=February 15, 1979 |page=C15}}</ref> [[Walter Kerr]], then the Times' Sunday critic, also reacted favorably to the show while calling attention to its nonsensical frivolity: he deemed it "light as a breeze, and just plain out of its head." [[Brendan Gill]] of [[The New Yorker]], however, panned the show.

Repole received a nomination for [[Drama Desk Award]], [[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical|Outstanding Actor in a Musical]], and Dan Siretta was nominated for the [[Tony Award for Best Choreography]].