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• The Index includes all names and works in the main text and selective entries for names and works that appear in the online website (Synopses, Discography and Filmography, Appendices, and Notes).

• Titles in
bold
indicate the major shows and films discussed in
Enchanted Evenings
.

• Titles of musicals, films, plays, operas, novels, and miscellaneous other works are placed in
italics
.

• Titles of songs are placed in “quotes.”

• Composers and authors are placed in parentheses after the title, and categories of works other than musicals are indicated in [brackets].

• Page numbers in
italics
indicate musical examples.

• Page numbers in
bold
indicate drawings and photographs.

• Numbers preceded by a W indicate pages in the online website.

“Abbondanza” (Loesser), 250, 252

Abbott, George, xviii, xxvi, 47, 86, 87, 89, 90–91, 92, 100, 101, 104, 190, 235, 281, 396

Adams, Franklin P., 46

Addison, Adele, 169

“Adelaide” (Loesser), 322, W111n21

“Adelaide’s Lament” (Loesser), 231, 238, 246, 321, 322

Adler (Richard) and Ross (Jerry), 14, W77n20

Adler, Thomas, P., 336

Adorno, Theodor, xii

“After the Ball” (Harris), 391

“Ah, but Underneath” (Sondheim), 377

“Ah, Miss” (Sondheim), 359, 362

“Ah Still Suits Me” (Kern and Hammerstein), 26, 157, 159, W80n41

“Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life” (Herbert and Young), W98n15

Aida
(John and Rice), xxvii

“Alabama-Song” (Brecht and Weill), 141

Aladdin
(Porter and Perelman), 152, 232

Alda, Robert,
242

Alexander’s Ragtime Band
[film], 156

All About Eve
[film], 320

“All I Ask of You” (Lloyd Webber and Hart), 397, 401, 403, 406–7, W133n46

All Quiet on the Western Front
[film], 165

“All the Things You Are” (Kern and Hammerstein), 39, 344

“All Through the Night” (Porter), 40, 44, 53, 159, 164, W85n32

Allegro
(Rodgers and Hammerstein), 136, 143, 213, 346

All’s Well That Ends Well
(Shakespeare) [play], 318

“Alms … alms …” (Sondheim), 358, 360, 362

Alpert, Hollis, W86n6, W123n83

“Always True To You in My Fashion” (Porter), 223, 318

Ameche, Don, 150

“America” (words by S. F. Smith) [same melody as “God Save the King”], 391

“America” (Bernstein and Sondheim), 280, 284, 295, 328, 329, 330, W118n27, W122n75

An American in Paris
[film], 190, 263, W125n25

An American in Paris
(Gershwin), 59

“Anacreon in Heaven” [same melody as
Star Spangled Banner
], 391

Anderson, Marian, 169, W87n39

Anderson, Maxwell, 136, 152

Andresen-Thom, Martha, 230

Andrews, Julie, 261,
271
, 278, 325, W124n18

Androcles and the Lion
(Rodgers), W107n33

“Angel of Music” (Lloyd Webber and Hart), 403, 405

“Angry Tony” (Loesser), 248

Annie Get Your Gun
(Berlin and Fields), 14, 216, 243, W77n21, W83n71

“Another Op’nin’, Another Show” (Porter), 219, 221, 222, 315

Anstey, F. [pseudonym of Thomas Anstey Guthrie], 136

“Any Old Place with You” (Rodgers and Hart), 83

Anyone Can Whistle
(Sondheim), 308, 335–36, 337

Anything Goes
(Porter) [musical], xviii, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 40–57 (
41
), 86, 89, 92, 101, 103, 111, 147, 155, 215, 221, 237, 238, 245, 247, 358, 373, 378

Synopsis (W1)

Discography and Filmography (W11–12)

Appendix A (W26)

Appendix E (W42–44)

Notes (W100n61)

Anything Goes
[1936 film], xxiii, xxiv, 51, 155, 158,
163
, 163–66, 175, 191, 217, 218, 231, 317

Anything Goes
[1956 film], 159

“Anything Goes” (Porter), xi, 53, 55–
56
, 57, 164, 218, W85n43

Arden, Eve, 188

Arlen, Harold,
5
, 14, 136, 152, W77n20