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

and Chorus)

Act II

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)

Appendix M: Kiss Me, Kate (1948)

Act I

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)

Act II

Scene 1:

Theatre alley.

“Too Darn Hot” (Paul, Fred Davis, and Eddie Sledge. Danced by Fred Davis, Eddie Sledge, Bill Calhoun and Dancing Ensemble)

Scene 2:

Before the curtain.

Scene 3:

Petruchio’s house.

“Where Is the Life That Late I Led?” (Petruchio)

Scene 4:

The corridor backstage.

“Always True to You in My Fashion” (Lois)

Scene 5:

Lilli’s dressing room.

Scene 6:

The corridor backstage.

“Bianca” (Bill Calhoun and Singing Girls. Danced by Bill Calhoun and Dancing Girls)

Reprise: “So in Love” (Fred)

Scene 7:

Before the asbestos curtain.

“Brush Up Your Shakespeare” (First Man and Second Man)

Scene 8:

Baptista’s home.

Pavane (Dancing Ensemble)

“I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple” (Katherine) Finale (Petruchio, Katherine, and Company)

Spewack Libretto Draft (May 28, 1948)

Act I

  Scene 1:

The bare stage of Ford’s Theater, Baltimore.

  Scene 2:

Connecting dressing rooms of Fred and Lilli.

Background music: “Another Opnin’[Op’nin’], Another Show”

“Wunderbar” (Fred and Lilli)

“It Was Great Fun” [No. 2] (Fred and Lilli)

  Scene 3:

Iron stairs and landing.

“Why Can’t You Behave?” (Lois and Bill)

  Scene 4:

Exterior of Ford Theater.

“Another Opnin’, Another Show”

  Scene 5:

Dressing rooms of Lilli and Fred.

Background music: “Another Opnin’, Another Show”

“We Shall Never Grow Younger”

  Scene 6:

Same.

Background music: “We Shall Never Grow Younger” (Counterpoint, “It Was Great Fun”)

  Scene 7:

Shrew curtain.

“We Open in Venice” (Shrew players)

“If Ever Married I’m” (Bianca) [crossed out]

“I Sing of Love” (Lucentio and Petruchio) [crossed out]

“I’ve Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua” (Petruchio) [crossed out]

“Were Thine That Special Face” (Petruchio) [crossed out]

  Scene 8:

Wings.

  Scene 9:

Opposite wings.

Scene 10:

On stage.

Bill does his specialty with Ballet.

Scene 11:

Exterior of Baptista’s house and church.

Scene 12:

Same.

Scene 13:

Walled garden of Baptista’s house.

“Tom, Dick or Harry” (Bianca and her suitors, Gremio, Tranio, and Lucentio) [crossed out]

Scene 14:

Wings.

Scene 15:

Garden.

Scene 16:

Lilli’s dressing room.

Scene 17:

Exterior church.

Finaletto: “Kiss Me, Kate” (Petruchio, Katharine, Bianca, Lucentio, and Company) [lyrics yet to be written]

Act II

Scene 1:

Theatre alley.

“Too Darn Hot” (Negroes) [crossed out]

Scene 2:

Shrew curtain.

Background music: “Where Is the Life That Late I Led?”

Scene 3:

Main room in Petruchio’s house.

“Where Is the Life That Late I Led?” (Petruchio)

Scene 4:

Back stage.

“I’ve Been Faithful to You, Darlin’ in my Fashion” (Lois) [p. 2–4–16 missing in typescript]

Scene 5:

Lilli’s dressing room.

“A Woman’s Career” (Fred) [p. 2–5–27 missing in typescript]

Scene 6:

Iron staircase.

Reprise: “We Shall Never Be Younger”

Scene 7:

Garden of Baptista’s house.

Reprise: “I Sing of Love” (Shrew players) [no text included in typescript]

“I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple” [entirely spoken]

Reprise: “Were Thine That Special Face” [crossed out]

Reprise: Finaletto. First Act Finale. New lyrics.

Appendix N: Guys and Dolls (1950)

Act I

Scene 1:

Broadway.

Opening (Runyonland) (Ensemble)

“Fugue for Tinhorns” (Nicely-Nicely Johnson, Benny Southstreet, and Rusty Charlie)

“Follow the Fold” (Sarah, Arvide, Agatha, and Mission Group)

“The Oldest Established” (Nathan, Nicely-Nicely, Benny, Brandy-Bottle Bates, and the Crapshooters)

Scene 2:

Interior of the Save-A-Soul Mission.

“I’ll Know” (Sarah and Sky)

Scene 3:

A Phone Booth.

Scene 4:

The Hot Box, Nightclub.

“A Bushel and a Peck” (Adelaide and the Hot Box Girls)

“Adelaide’s Lament” (Adelaide)

Scene 5:

A Street Off Broadway.

“Guys and Dolls” (Nicely-Nicely and Benny)

Scene 6:

Exterior of the Mission. Noon, the next day.

Scene 7:

A Street Off Broadway.

Scene 8:

Havana, Cuba—El Café Cubana.

Dance: Havana

Scene 9:

Outside El Café Cubana. Immediately following.

“If I Were a Bell” (Sarah)

Scene 10:

Exterior of the Mission.

“My Time of Day” (Sky)

“I’ve Never Been in Love Before” (Sky and Sarah)

Incidental music: The Raid

Act II

Scene 1:

The Hot Box Nightclub.

“Take Back Your Mink” (Adelaide and Dolls)

“Adelaide’s Second Lament” (Adelaide)

Scene 2:

Forty-Eighth Street.

“More I Cannot Wish You” (Arvide)

Scene 3:

Crap Game in the Sewer.

“Luck Be a Lady” (Sky and the Crapshooters)

Scene 4:

A Street Off Broadway.

“Sue Me” (Adelaide and Nathan)

Scene 5:

Interior of the Save-A-Soul Mission.

“Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat” (Nicely-Nicely and the Crapshooters)

Scene 6:

Near Times Square.

“Marry the Man Today” (Adelaide and Sarah)

Scene 7:

Broadway.

Reprise: “Guys and Dolls” (Ensemble)

Appendix O: The Most Happy Fella (1956)

Act I

OVERTURE

Scene 1:

A restaurant in San Francisco; January, 1927.

“OOH! my feet!” (Cleo)

“… I know how it is” (Cleo)

“… Seven million crumbs” (Cleo)

“… I don’t know” (Rosabella)

“… Maybe he’s kind crazy” (Rosabella)

“SOMEBODY, SOMEWHERE” (Rosabella)

Scene 2:

Main Street, Napa, California; in April.

“THE Most HAPPY FELLA” (Townspeople)

“… A long time ago” (Marie)

“STANDING ON THE CORNER” (Herman, Jake, Clem, and Al)

“JOEY, JOEY, JOEY” (Joe)

“… Soon you gonna leave me, Joe” (Tony)

“ROSABELLA” (Tony)

Scene 3:

Tony’s barn; a few weeks later.

“ABBONDANZA” (Giuseppe, Ciccio, and Pasquale)

“… Plenty bambini” (Tony)

Scene 4:

Tony’s front yard.

“SPOSALiZiO” (Townspeople)

“… I seen her at the station” (Postman)

“BENVENUTA” (Giuseppe, Ciccio, and Pasquale)

“…