Words and Music (musical) song "Let’s Live Dangerously", "a merry little skit on present day habits" (In the order printed in "The Lyrics of Noël Coward", pp. 114–18): The Noël Coward Society's website, drawing on performing statistics from the publishers and the Performing Rights Society, names "Mad About the Boy" as Coward's most popular song. "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" is also among the top ten most performed Coward songs. "The Party's Over Now" ranks in the top thirty of Coward songs. Words and Music (musical) Words and Music is a musical revue with sketches, music, lyrics and direction by Noël Coward. The revue introduced
Romney Brent End", and as a missionary in a sketch in which he sang Coward's famous song "Mad Dogs and Englishmen". While in London, he directed a Herbert Farjeon revue and wrote the book for Cole Porter's "Nymph Errant". In 1933 Brent was cast as Paul, Duc de Chaucigny-Varennes in Coward's "Conversation Piece" but struggled with the role and was replaced by Coward himself, to whom Brent gladly handed it over, adding "providing you let me still come to rehearsals and watch you find out what a bloody awful part it is." In New York in the 1930s, Brent created the role