Enchanted Evenings:The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber (105 page)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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.

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.