Enchanted Evenings:The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber Block, Geoffrey (large ebook reader .txt) 📖

on August 3, 1960). Substantial libretto portions published with the McGlinn EMI/Angel recording CDS 7–49108–2, pages 55–130. Vocal Score published by T. B. Harms Co. in April 1928 (268 pp.).

4. May 3, 1928: London production

Libretto published by Chappell in 1934.

Vocal Score published by Chappell & Co. Ltd. in 1928 (229 pp.).

5. April 30, 1936: Universal film

Screenplay by Oscar Hammerstein (unpublished).

6. January 5, 1946: New York revival

Libretto of touring version distributed by Rodgers and Hammerstein. Vocal Score based on touring version published by Welk Music Group (192 pp.).

*Songs followed by an asterisk in Broadway 1927 are not included in the McGlinn recording.

†Based on Kreuger, Show Boat, 226–27.

Appendix E: Anything Goes: 1934, 1962, and 1987

Broadway 1934

Act I

Scene 1:

The Weylin Caprice Bar.

“I Get a Kick Out of You” (Reno)

Scene 2:

The Afterdeck. Midnight sailing.

“Bon Voyage” (Boys/Girls)

“All through the Night” (Billy/Hope/Sailors)

Scene 3:

Mr. Whitney’s and Dr. Moon’s Cabins. The next morning.

“Sailor’s Chanty” (“There’ll Always Be a Lady Fair”) (Four Sailors)

Scene 4:

The Afterdeck. Same morning.

“Where Are the Men?” (1st & 2nd Girls/Girls’ Chorus)

“You’re the Top” (Reno/Billy)

Scene 5:

Sir Evelyn’s Cabin.

Reprise: “Sailor’s Chanty” (Four Sailors)

Scene 6:

The Deck.

“Anything Goes” (Reno/Four Sailors)

Reprise: “You’re the Top” (Reno)

Act II

Scene 1:

The Lounge. That evening.

“Public Enemy Number One” (Four Sailors/Passengers)

“Blow, Gabriel, Blow” (Reno/Company)

Scene 2:

The Brig. Five days later.

“Be Like the Bluebird” (Moonface)

Reprise: “All through the Night” (Hope/Billy)

“Buddie, Beware” (Reno) (replaced by a reprise of “I Get a Kick Out of You” by the week of December 10)

Scene 3:

Conservatory of Sir Evelyn’s Home in England.

“The Gypsy in Me” (Hope)

Reprise: “Anything Goes” (All)

Off-Broadway Revival 1962

Act I

Scene 1:

Afterdeck of the Ship.

“You’re the Top” (Billy/Reno)

“Bon Voyage” (Company)

Scene 2:

On the Ship’s Deck. Night.

“It’s De-Lovely” (Billy/Hope/Company) (introduced in Red, Hot and Blue by Ethel Merman and Bob Hope [October 29, 1936])

Scene 3:

Two Cabins on the “A” Deck.

Reprise: “Bon Voyage” (Orchestra)

Scene 4:

The Ship’s Deck.

“Heaven Hop” (Bonnie/Girls) (introduced in Paris by Irving Aaronson and the Commanders [October 8, 1928])

Scene 5:

The Ship’s Deck.

“Friendship” (Billy/Reno/Moon) (introduced in DuBarry Was a Lady by Ethel Merman and Bert Lahr [December 6, 1939])

Scene 6:

Evelyn’s Stateroom.

Reprise: “Bon Voyage” (Orchestra)

Scene 7:

The Ship’s Deck.

“I Get a Kick Out of You” (Reno)

Scene 8:

The Afterdeck.

“Anything Goes” (Reno/Chorus)

Act II

Scene 1:

Ship’s Lounge.

“Public Enemy Number One” (Chorus)

“Let’s Step Out” (Bonnie/Chorus) (introduced in Fifty Million Frenchmen by Evelyn Hoey and Gertrude McDonald [November 27, 1929])

“Let’s Misbehave” (Reno/Sir Evelyn) (written for Paris but replaced before the New York opening by “Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall in Love”)

“Blow, Gabriel, Blow” (Reno/Chorus)

Scene 2:

The Brig.

“All through the Night” (Billy/Hope)

“Be Like the Bluebird” (Moon)

Reprise: “All through the Night”

Reprise: “Bon Voyage” (Orchestra)

Scene 3:

The Ship’s Deck.

“Take Me Back to Manhattan” (Reno/Four Angels) (introduced in The

New Yorkers by Frances Williams [December 8, 1930])

Reprise: “You’re the Top” (Company)

Vivian Beaumont Revival 1987

Act I

Scene 1:

A Smokey Manhattan Bar.

“I Get a Kick Out of You” (Reno)

Scene 2:

The Afterdeck of an Ocean Liner Shortly before Sailing.

“There’s No Cure like Travel” (Captain/Sailors) (dropped from original production and replaced by “Bon Voyage”)

“Bon Voyage” (Sailors/Passengers)

Scene 3:

On Deck. That evening.

“You’re the Top” (Reno/Billy)

“Easy to Love” (Billy) (dropped from original production and replaced by “All through the Night”; introduced in Born to Dance by James Stewart, Eleanor Powell, and Reginald Gardiner [April 13, 1936])

Scene 4:

Lights up on Whitney’s Stateroom.

“I Want to Row on the Crew” (Whitney) (introduced in Paranoia by Newbold Noyes [April 24, 1914])

Scene 5:

On Deck, Mid-morning.

“Sailor’s Chantey” (Sailors)

“Friendship” (Reno/Moon) (see act I, scene 5 of 1962 revival)

Scene 6:

Evelyn’s Stateroom.

No song

Scene 7:

On Deck.

“It’s De-Lovely” (Billy/Hope) (see act I, scene 2 of 1962 revival)

Scene 8:

The Same, early the following morning.

“Anything Goes” (Reno)

Act II

Scene 1:

The Ship’s Nightclub.

“Public Enemy Number One” (Company)

“Blow, Gabriel, Blow” (Reno/Chorus)

“Goodbye, Little Dream, Goodbye” (Hope) (dropped from Born to Dance and Red, Hot and Blue in 1936 before its introduction in the English production, O Mistress Mine [December 3, 1936])

Scene 2:

The Brig.

“Be Like the Bluebird” (Moon)

“All through the Night” (Billy/Hope/Sailors)

Scene 3:

On Deck.

“The Gypsy in Me” (Evelyn)

Scene 4:

The Brig.

No song

Scene 5:

On Deck.

“Buddie, Beware” (Erma, new name for original Bonnie) (dropped from original 1934 production by the week of December 10)

Reprise: “Anything Goes” (Company)

Appendix F: Porgy and Bess: Songs, Arias, and Themes (1935)

Published Vocal Score (Gershwin Publishing Corporation/Chappell & Co.)

Act I

Scene 1:

Catfish Row, a summer evening (lyrics by Heyward).

“Introduction” (Catfish Row)

“Jasbo Brown Blues” (Catfish Row)

“Summertime” (Clara)

“A Woman Is a Sometime Thing” (Jake)

“Here Come De Honey Man” (Peter)

“They Pass By Singin’” (Porgy)

“Oh Little Stars” (Porgy)

Scene 2:

Serena’s Room, the following night (lyrics by Heyward).

“Gone, Gone, Gone” (Catfish Row)

“Overflow” (Catfish Row)

“My Man’s Gone Now” (Serena)

“Leavin’ for the Promise’ Lan’” (Bess)

Act II

Scene 1:

Catfish Row, a month later.

“It Take a Long Pull to Get There” (Catfish Row) (Heyward)

“I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’” (Porgy) (I. Gershwin and Heyward)

“Buzzard Song” (Porgy) (Heyward)

“Bess, You Is My Woman” (Porgy and Bess) (Heyward and I. Gershwin)

“Oh, I Can’t Sit Down” (Catfish Row) (I. Gershwin)

Scene 2:

Kittiwah Island, evening, the same day.

“I Ain’ Got No Shame” (Catfish Row) (Heyward)

“It Ain’t Necessarily So” (Sporting Life) (I. Gershwin)

“What You Want Wid Bess?” (Bess) (Heyward)

Scene 3:

Catfish Row, before dawn, a week later.

“Oh, Doctor Jesus” (Catfish Row) (Heyward)

“Strawberry Woman” (Strawberry Woman) (Heyward)

“Crab Man” (Crab Man) (Heyward)

“I Loves You, Porgy” (Bess) (I. Gershwin and Heyward)

Scene 4:

Serena’s Room, dawn of the following day.

“Oh, Hev’nly Father” (Catfish Row) (I. Gershwin and Heyward)

“Oh, de Lawd Shake de Heavens” (Catfish Row) (Heyward)

“Oh, Dere’s Somebody Knockin’ at de Do’” (Catfish Row) (Heyward)

“A Red Headed Woman” (Crown) (I. Gershwin)

Act III

Scene 1:

Catfish Row, the next night.

“Clara, Clara” (Catfish Row) (Heyward)

Scene 2:

Catfish Row, the next afternoon.

“There’s a Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon for New York” (Sporting Life) (I. Gershwin)

Scene 3:

Catfish Row, a week later.

“Good Mornin’, Sistuh!” (Catfish Row) (Heyward)

“Oh, Bess, Oh Where’s My Bess” (Porgy) (I. Gershwin)

“Oh Lawd, I’m on