Enchanted Evenings:The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber (97 page)

Vallon’s theme (Kern), 35, W80n48, W101n9

Van, Bobby, 316, 318

Van Heusen, Jimmy, 159

Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 397, 403

Vedder, Eddie, 186

“The Venice Gavotte” (Bernstein), 243, 308

“Venus Entrance” (Weill), 137, 147

“Venus in Ozone Heights” (Weill), 150

Verdi, Giuseppe, 9, 64, 136, 143, 171, 219, 349, 388, W87n25, W107n11, W109n29

Verrett, Shirley, 211

Vertigo
[film], 178

Very Good Eddie
(Kern, Wodehouse, and Bolton), 4, 22

Very Warm for May
(Kern and Hammerstein), 38, 215

“Very, Very, Very” (Weill and Nash), 140, 151

Violin Concerto in E Minor (Mendelssohn), 390

Villella, Edward, 103

Voltaire (pseudonym of François-Marie Arouet), 378

Wagner, Richard, 9, 27, 57, 63, 136, 143, 296–98, 307, 349, 388, 390

Waiting for Lefty
(Odets) [play], 52, 92, 114, 136

Wake Up and Dream
(Porter), 40

Walker, Robert, 187

Die Walküre
(Wagner) [opera], 298, 300,
302
, W78n6, W118n27

Walsh, Michael, 387, 390, 391, 392, W132nn21, W132n24

Walter, Bruno, 281

“Waltz Down the Aisle” (Porter), 44

“Waltz Suite” (Rodgers), W105n21

Warfield, William, 158, 166

“Warm All Over” (Loesser), 255,
256
, 257

Warner, Jack, 325

Warren, Annette, 188

Watson, Emily, 181, 182

Watts, Richard Jr. 253

“We Do Not Belong Together” (Sondheim), 368

“We Open in Venice” (Porter),
219
, 221, 316, W107n11

“We Shall Never Be Younger” (Porter), 227, 228

Weber, Max, 346

Wedding Dream (Weill), 144, 145, 146, 186

Weede, Robert,
249

“A Weekend in the Country” (Sondheim), 359

Weidman, John, 346

Weill, Kurt, xx, xxvi, 5, 6, 82, 115, 116, 117, 125, 130–52, 186–88, 195, 262, 278, 316, W95n12, W104n47

“Well, Did you Evah?” (Porter), 215

Welles, Orson, 116, 186, 353

“We’re the Greatest” (Bernstein and Sondheim), W118n33

“Were Thine That Special Face” (Porter), 219, 220, 226, 317

West, Mae, 82

West Side Story
(Bernstein and Sondheim) [musical], xv, xix, xx, xxv, xxviii, 3, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 31, 54, 112, 147, 199, 231, 233, 238, 243, 279–308 (
284, 289
), 335, 338, 341, 346, 347, 348, 350, 351–52, 354, 382, 390, 393, 405

Synopsis (W9–10)

Discography and Filmography (W24–25)

Appendix A (W30)

Appendix Q (W61–62)

Notes (W73n2, W84n23, W111n34)

West Side Story
[film], xxiii, 280, 309, 310, 317, 327–32 (
328
), 360, 361, 402, W125nn24–25

West Side Story
“Finale,”
306
, W122n75

Westley, Helen,
160

“Westwind” (Weill and I. Gershwin), 137, 147,
148

Whale, James, 156, 159

“What a Joy to Be Young” (Porter), 45

“What Do You Do in the Infantry” (Loesser), 235

“What Is a Man?” (Rodgers and Hart), 107,
108

“What Is This Thing Called Love?” (Porter), 40, 224

“What You Want Wid Bess?” (Gershwin and Heyward), 78–79

“What’s the Use of Wondrin’” (Rodgers and Hammerstein), 197, 204, 206, 340

What’s Up?
(Lerner and Loewe), 262, 278

Wheeler, Hugh, 346, 349, 350, 359

“When the Children Are Asleep” (Rodgers and Hammerstein), 210–11, 313

“Where Does It Get You in the End?” (Bernstein and Latouche), 286, 288, W118n29

“Where Is the Life That Late I Led?” (Porter), 219, 220, 224, 318

Where’s Charley?
(Loesser), 47, 85, 235, 236, 237, 244, 245

“Where’s That Rainbow?” (Rodgers and Hart), 83

“Where’s the Mate for Me?” (Kern and Hammerstein),
32
, 33,
34–35
, 36, 38, 161, 162, W105n11, W121n66

Whipple, Sidney B., 102

Whistle Down the Wind
(Lloyd Webber and Steinman), 408, 409

A White House Cantata
(Bernstein), 308

White, Miles, 195

White, Sammy, W101n5

White, Willard, 70,
173

Whiteman, Paul, 409–10, W105n21

Whitmore, James, 318

“Who?” (Kern and Hammerstein), 22

“Who Am I?” (Weill and Nash), W99n28

“Why Can’t the English?” (Lerner and Loewe), 265, 274, W114n30

“Why Can’t You Behave?” (Porter), 218,
222
, 223, 226

“Why Do I Love You?” (Kern and Hammerstein), 24, 27, 160, 162, 200

Wicked
(Schwartz), xxvii

Wildcat
(Coleman and Leigh), 348

Wilder, Alec, 110

The Wild Rose
(Friml, Stothart, and Hammerstein), 21

Wildflower
(Stothart, Youmans, Harbach, and Hammerstein), 21

Will Rogers Follies
(Coleman and Comden and Green), 348

Williams, Camilla, 67

Williamson, Nicol, 213

Wilson, Alexandra, 383

Wilson, Edwin, 211

Wilson, Eileen, 188

Wilson, Patrick, 399

Wiman, Dwight, 90

Winger, Debra, 392

Winninger, Charles, xxiv,
160
, 163, 191, W101n5

Winters, Lawrence, 67

Wise, Robert, xxv, 310, 327, 328

Wise Guys
(Sondheim).
See Road Show

“Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again” (Lloyd Webber and Hart), 403

“With a Little Bit of Luck” (Lerner and Loewe), 265, 266, 326, W114n32, W115n46

“Without You” (Lerner and Loewe), 265–66, 271,
272
, 273

The Wizard of Oz
(Arlen and Harburg), 85, 156, W125n25

Wodehouse (P.G.) and Bolton (Guy), 4, 43, 46

Woll, Allen, W79n51

“A Woman in Love” (Loesser), 322

The Woman in White
(Lloyd Webber and Zippel), 408, 409, W75n22

Wonderful Town
(Bernstein, Comden, and Green), 233, 282, 301, W123n79

Wood, Natalie, 280, 310,
328
, W73n2

“Wooden Wedding” (Weill and Nash), 147

Woollcott, Alexander, 21

Word and Music
[film], 190

“The Worst Pies in London,” 356,
357
, 358

“Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?” (Lerner and Loewe), 265, 274, 325, 326

Wright (Robert) and Forrest (George), 14, W77n20

“Wunderbar” (Porter), 44, 319

Wuthering Heights
[film], 320

Wynn, Keenan, 318

Yale Broadway Masters, W74n8

Yankee Doodle Dandy
[film], 4, 156, W125n25

“Yesterday” (Beatles), 391

“Yesterdays” (Kern and Harbach), 157

Yeston, Maury, xxvi, 388

Yon, Pietro, 42

York, Richard, 47

“You Are Love” (Hammerstein and Kern), 162, 200, 206, W81n59

You Can’t Take It with You
(Kaufman and Hart) [play], 52

“You Did It” (Lerner and Loewe), 266, 271, 325, 327

“You Do Something to Me” (Porter), 40

“You Must Meet My Wife” (Sondheim), 359

“You Mustn’t Kick It Around” (Rodgers and Hart), 110, 180

“You Took Advantage of Me” (Rodgers and Hart), 83, 89

“You’ll Never Walk Alone” (Rodgers and Hammerstein), 197, 207–
9
, 312, 382

Youmans, Vincent, 156

Young, A. S. (“Doc”), 71

“Young People” (Loesser), 257

“Your Eyes” (Larson), 393

“Your Fault” (Sondheim), 371

“You’re Devastating” (Kern and Harbach), 157

“You’re Just in Love” (Berlin), 243

“You’re Nearer” (Rodgers and Hart), 190

“You’re the Top” (Porter), 40, 49, 53, 57, 159, 164, 165, 218

Zadan, Craig, 282

Zaks, Jerry, 49, 165, 337

Zeffirelli, Franco, 171, 291

Ziegfeld, Florenz, 20, 21, 22

“Zip” (Rodgers and Hart), 94, 103, 104, 107, 177–78, 179

“Zodiac Song” (Weill and I. Gershwin), 137, 138, 139

Zorbá
(Kander and Ebb), 347

Zorina, Vera, 190

Reno Sweeney (Ethel Merman), an evangelist turned bar hostess, gets such a kick out of Billy Crocker (William Gaxton) that she boards a Europe-bound liner to dissuade him from pursuing Hope Harcourt (Bettina Hall). Although Billy dreams of Hope all through the night, Hope is determined to marry an English peer. Crocker has boarded without a ticket, so is forced to adopt a number of disguises. Also aboard is a wistful little man, the Reverend Dr. Moon (Victor Moore), whom J. Edgar Hoover has branded “Public Enemy 13.” Moon’s ambition is to rise to the top of Hoover’s list. With a minister and former evangelist as passengers the captain hopes to cheer his Depression-ridden travelers with a revival meeting. Reno obliges with a rousing anthem directed at the archangel Gabriel. On landing, Hope discovers she has become an heiress. She drops her Englishman and consents to marry Billy. The Englishman turns his attention to Reno, while Moon, learning he has been judged harmless and dropped from the FBI list, walks away muttering nasty things about Hoover.

When Billy Bigelow (John Raitt), a New England carnival barker, falls in love with Julie Jordan (Jan Clayton), he proves so shy that he can only convey his
feelings by suggesting what might happen “If I Loved You.” Nonetheless, by the time “June Is Bustin’ Out All Over,” he wins Julie. Later he discovers she is pregnant, so he agrees to join the scowling Jigger Craigin (Murvyn Vye) in a robbery to earn extra money. The plan misfires, and Billy kills himself rather than be caught. Before a heavenly judge, he pleads for another chance to return to earth, to redeem himself and see his daughter. But when the daughter refuses his gift of a star he has stolen from the sky he slaps her and must return to purgatory. The widowed Julie and her child are left to continue alone in the world, in stark contrast to her old friend Carrie Pipperidge (Jean Darling), who has made a prosperous marriage to the rich Mr. Snow (Eric Mattson). Julie’s sole comforter, Nettie Fowler (Christine Johnson), assures her “You’ll Never Walk Alone.”

Scene 1
. Street Corner: In “Moll’s Song” a prostitute (Olive Stanton) explains how the two dollars she earns on two days each week in Steeltown barely provides enough to eat for the five days her “efforts ain’t required.” A Gent enters, offers the Moll thirty cents, harasses her, and departs when a Dick comes to protect the Moll in exchange for sexual favors. A Cop instructed to pick up union workers mistakenly arrests the Liberty Committee, a group selected and cultivated by Mr. Mister (Ralph MacBane) to destroy the burgeoning attempts to form a union. The Liberty Committee and the Moll are taken to Night Court.