Enchanted Evenings:The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber by Block, Geoffrey (good story books to read .TXT) 📕

My Way” (Porgy and Catfish Row) (Heyward)

Appendix G: On Your Toes: Broadway 1936 and Broadway Revival 1983

Act I

Scene 1:

A Vaudeville Stage, sixteen years ago. [About 1920]

“Two a Day for Keith” (Phil II, Lil, and Phil III)

Scene 2:

The Vaudeville Dressing Room.

Scene 3:

A Classroom at Knockerbocker [Knickerbocker] University—W.P.A. Extension.

“The Three B’s” [“Questions and Answers (The Three B’s)] (Junior and the Ensemble)

“It’s Got to Be Love” (Frankie and Junior)

Scene 4:

Vera’s Apartment, the next morning.

“Too Good for the Average Man” (Peggy and Sergei)

Scene 5:

Central Park, night. [The Schoolroom as in scene 3]

“There’s a Small Hotel” (Frankie and Junior)

Scene 6:

A Green Room, Cosmopolitan Opera House.

[The Bare Stage, Cosmopolitan Opera House, the next evening]

“The Heart Is Quicker Than the Eye” (Peggy and Junior) [placed in act II, scene 1 in the 1983 revival]

Scene 7:

“La Princesse Zenobia” Ballet–Cosmopolitan Opera House.

Act II

Scene 1:

A Planetarium Roof Garden. [The Bare Stage, Cosmopolitan Opera House]

[“The Heart Is Quicker Than the Eye” (Peggy and Junior)]

“Quiet Night” (Crooner) [placed in act II, scenes (2 and 4, in 1983 revival]

“Glad to Be Unhappy” (Frankie and Sidney)

Scene 2:

The Stage of the Cosmopolitan Opera House. [The Classroom as in Act 1, scenes 3 and 5]

[“Quiet Night” (Hank and Three Girls)]

“On Your Toes” (Frankie, Junior, and the Ensemble)

Reprise: “There’s a Small Hotel” (Peggy and Sergei) [omitted from 1983 revival]

Scene 3:

Stage Door. [The Bare Stage, Cosmopolitan Opera House]

1936

Scene 4:

“Slaughter on Tenth Avenue” Ballet.

Scene 5:

The Stage of the Cosmopolitan Opera House.

Reprise: “There’s a Small Hotel” (Frankie and Junior)

1983

[Scene 4:

The Stage Door, Cosmopolitan Opera House.]

[Reprise: “Quiet Night” (Sergei)]

[Scene 5:

“Slaughter on Tenth Avenue” Ballet, Stage of Cosmopolitan Opera House.]

[Reprise: “There’s a Small Hotel” (Frankie and Junior)]

Brackets include 1983 revival.

Appendix H: Pal Joey: Broadway 1940 and Broadway Revival 1952

Act I

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.

Act II

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.

Appendix I: The Cradle Will Rock (1937)

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)

Act II

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)

Appendix J: Lady in the Dark (1941)

Act I

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)

Act II

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)

Appendix K: One Touch of Venus (1943)

Act I

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)

Act II

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)

Appendix L: Carousel (1945)

Prelude

An Amusement Park on the New England Coast. May.

“Carousel Waltz” (Orchestra)

Act I

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,