Enchanted Evenings:The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber (106 page)

Scene 1:

Mike’s South Side Night Club. A September afternoon.

“Chicago [A Great Big Town]” (Joey)

“You Mustn’t Kick It Around” (Joey, Gladys, Agnes, The Kid, and Ensemble)

Scene 2:

The Pet Shop. That evening.

“I Could Write a Book” (Joey and Linda)

Scene 3:

Mike’s Night Club. An evening a month later.

Reprise: “Chicago” [“A Great Big Town”] (Ensemble)

“That Terrific Rainbow” (Gladys, Victor, and Ensemble)

Scene 4:

(a) A Phone Booth. (b) Vera’s Boudoir. The next afternoon.

“What Is a Man?” (Vera)

Scene 5:

Mike’s Night Club. After closing time that evening.

“Happy Hunting Horn” (Joey, Terry, and Ensemble)

Scene 6:

The Tailor Shop. A few days later.

“Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (Vera)

“Pal Joey” (Joey)

Scene 7:

Ballet.

Scene 1:

Chez Joey. A few weeks later.

“The Flower Garden of My Heart” (Gladys, Specialty Dancer, and Ensemble) [Louis, Gladys, and Ensemble]

“Zip” (Melba Snyder)

“Plant You Now, Dig You Later” (Lowell, Gladys, and Ensemble) [Gladys and Ensemble]

Scene 2:

Joey’s Apartment. The next morning.

“Den of Iniquity” (Vera and Joey)

Scene 3:

Chez Joey. That afternoon.

Reprise: “Chicago (Morocco)” (Dance and song)

“Do It the Hard Way” (Lowell, Gladys, and Ensemble) [act II, scene 4, sung by Joey]

Scene 4:

Joey’s Apartment. Later that afternoon.

“Take Him” (Linda and Vera)

Reprise: “Bewitched” (Vera)

Scene 5:

The Pet Shop. Later that evening.

Finale: “I Could Write a Book” (Joey)

[“I’m Talking to My Pal” (Joey) dropped during Philadelphia tryouts]

Brackets include 1952 changes.

Scene 1:

Street Corner.

“Moll’s Song” (Moll)

Moll and Gent

Moll and Dick

Scene 2:

Night Court.

Moll and Druggist

“Oh, What a Filthy Night Court” (Ensemble)

Scene 3:

Mission.

Mrs. Mister and Reverend Salvation

Scene 4:

Lawn of Mr. Mister’s Home.

“Croon-Spoon” (Junior and Sister Mister)

“The Freedom of the Press” (Mr. Mister and Editor Daily)

“Let’s Do Something” (Junior and Sister Mister)

“Honolulu” (Editor Daily, Junior Mister, Mr. Mister, and Sister Mister)

Scene 5:

Drugstore.

Drugstore scene

“Gus and Sadie Love Song” (Gus and Sadie)

Scene 6:

Hotel Lobby.

“The Rich” (Yasha and Dauber)

“Ask Us Again” (Mrs. Mister, Yasha, and Dauber)

“Art for Art’s Sake” (Yasha and Dauber)

Scene 7:

Night Court.

“Nickel under the Foot” (Moll)

“Leaflets” (Larry Foreman)

“The Cradle Will Rock” (Larry Foreman)

Scene 8:

Faculty Room.

Scene 9:

Dr. Specialist’s Office.

Doctor and Ella

“Joe Worker” (Ella Hammer)

Scene 10:

Night Court.

“Finale: The Cradle Will Rock” (reprise) (Ensemble)

1.

Glamour Dream.

“Oh Fabulous One” (Liza Elliott’s Admirers)

“Huxley” (Sutton and Liza)

“One Life to Live” (Liza)

“Girl of the Moment” (Liza Elliott’s Admirers)

2.

Wedding Dream.

“Mapleton High Choral” (Boys and Girls of Mapleton High)

“This Is New” (Randy and Liza)

“The Princess of Pure Delight” (Liza)

3.

Circus Dream.

“The Greatest Show on Earth” (Ringmaster [Russell Paxton] and Paraders)

Ballet: “Dance of the Tumblers”

“The Best Years of His Life” (Ringmaster, Randy, and Liza)

“Tschaikowsky” (Ringmaster)

“The Saga of Jenny” (Liza)

4.

Childhood Dream.

“My Ship” (Liza and Charley Johnson)

Scene 1:

Main Gallery of the Whitelaw Savory Foundation of Modern Art.

“New Art Is True Art” (Savory and Students)

“One Touch of Venus” (Molly)

Scene 2:

Rodney’s Room.

“How Much I Love You” (Rodney)

Scene 3:

Radio City Plaza.

“I’m a Stranger Here Myself” (Venus)

Scene 4:

Arcade of the N.B.C. Building in Radio City.

Ballet: “Forty Minutes for Lunch”

“West Wind” (Savory)

Scene 5:

Waiting Room of Mid-City Bus Terminal.

“Way Out West in Jersey” (Mrs. Kramer, Rodney, and Gloria)

Scene 6:

The Roof Garden of the Foundation.

“Foolish Heart” (Venus)

Scene 7:

Rodney’s Barbershop.

“The Trouble with Women” (Taxi, Stanley, Savory, and Rodney)

“Speak Low” (Venus)

Scene 8:

The Roof Garden of the Foundation.

“Doctor Crippen” (Savory)

Scene 1:

Savory’s Bedroom.

“Very, Very, Very” (Molly)

Scene 2:

The Tombs.

“Speak Low” (reprise) (Rodney and Venus)

Scene 3:

The Sitting Room of a De Luxe Suite.

“That’s Him” (Venus)

“Wooden Wedding” (Rodney)

Scene 4:

The Main Galley of the Foundation.

“Speak Low” (reprise) (Rodney)

Scene 1:

A tree-lined path along the shore. A few minutes later.

“You’re a Queer One, Julie Jordan” (Carrie and Julie)

“Mister Snow” (Carrie)

“If I Loved You” (Billy and Julie)

Scene 2:

Nettie Fowler’s Spa on the ocean front. June.

“June Is Bustin’ Out All Over” (Nettie, Carrie, and Ensemble)

Reprise: “Mister Snow” (Carrie and Girls)

“When the Children Are Asleep” (Mr. Snow and Carrie)

“Blow High, Blow Low” (Jigger, Billy, and Men)

“Soliloquy” (Billy)

“Finale” (Billy, Jigger, Nettie, and Chorus)

Scene 1:

On an island across the bay. That night.

“A Real Nice Clambake” (Carrie, Nettie, Julie, Mr. Snow, and Ensemble)

“Geraniums in the Winder” (Mr. Snow)

“There’s Nothin’ So Bad for a Woman” (Jigger and Ensemble)

“What’s the Use of Wond’rin’” (Julie)

Scene 2:

Mainland waterfront. An hour later.

“You’ll Never Walk Alone” (Nettie)

Scene 3:

Up there.

“The Highest Judge of All” (Billy)

Scene 4:

Down here. On a beach. Fifteen years later.

Ballet (Louise, A Younger Miss Snow, The Brothers and Sisters Snow, Badly Brought Up Boys, A Young Man Like Billy, A Carnival Woman, Members of the Carnival Troupe)

Scene 5:

Outside Julie’s cottage.

Reprise: “If I Loved You” (Billy)

Scene 6:

Outside a schoolhouse. Same day.

Reprise: “You’ll Never Walk Alone” (Company)

Scene 1:

Stage of Ford’s Theatre, Baltimore.

“Another Op’nin, Another Show” (Hattie and Singing Ensemble. Danced by Dancing Ensemble.)

Scene 2:

The corridor backstage.

“Why Can’t You Behave?” (Lois Lane)

Scene 3:

Dressing rooms, Fred Graham and Lilli Vanessi.

“Wunderbar” (Lilli and Fred)

“So In Love” (Lilli)

Scene 4:

Padua.

“We Open in Venice” (Petruchio, Katherine, Bianca, Lucentio)

Scene 5:

Street Scene, Padua.

Dance (Dancing Ensemble)

“Tom, Dick, or Harry” (Bianca, Lucentio, and the Two Suitors (Gremio and Hortensio)

Specialty Dance (Lucentio)

“I’ve Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua” (Petruchio and Singing Ensemble)

“I Hate Men” (Katherine)

“Were Thine That Special Face” (Petruchio. Danced by Janet Gaylord and Dancing Girls)

Scene 6:

Backstage.

Scene 7:

Fred’s and Lilli’s dressing rooms.

Scene 8:

Before the curtain.

“I Sing of Love” (Bianca, Lucentio, and Singing Ensemble)

Scene 9:

Exterior church.

Tarantella (Danced by Bianca, Lucentio, and Dancing Ensemble) Finale: “Kiss Me, Kate” (Katherine, Petruchio, and Singing Ensemble)