Read Enchanted Evenings:The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber Online
Authors: Geoffrey Block
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) |
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. |
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) |
Act I
OVERTURE
Scene 1: | A restaurant in San Francisco; January, 1927. |
| “ |
| “… I know how it is” (Cleo) |
| “… Seven million crumbs” (Cleo) |
| “… I don’t know” (Rosabella) |
| “… Maybe he’s kind crazy” (Rosabella) |
| “ |
Scene 2: | Main Street, Napa, California; in April. |
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| “… A long time ago” (Marie) |
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| “… Soon you gonna leave me, Joe” (Tony) |
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Scene 3: | Tony’s barn; a few weeks later. |
| “ |
| “… Plenty bambini” (Tony) |
Scene 4: | Tony’s front yard. |
| “ |
| “… I seen her at the station” (Postman) |
| “ |
| “… Aren’t you glad” (Rosabella) |
| “… No home, no job” (Rosabella) |
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Act II
PRELUDE
Scene 1: | The vineyards; in May. |
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| “… Cold and dead” (Joe and Rosabella) |
| “… Love and kindness” (Doc) |
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| “… I don’t like this dame” (Cleo) |
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Scene 2: | Late in May. |
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Scene 3: | The vineyards; in June. |
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| “… Old people gotta” (Tony) |
Scene 4: | The barn. |
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Scene 5: | The vineyards; in July. |
| “… I love him” (Rosabella) |
| “… I know how it is” (Cleo) |
| “… Like a woman loves a man” (Rosabella) |
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Act III
PRELUDE
Scene 1: | The barn; an hour later. |
| “… Good-bye darlin’” (Cleo and Herman) |
| “… I like ev’rybody” (Duet) (Cleo and Herman) |
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| “ |
Scene 2: | Napa Station; A little later. |
| “… Tell Tony and Rosabella good-bye for me” (Joe) |
| “… She gonna come home wit’ me” (Tony) |
| “… Nobody’s ever gonna love you” (Trio) (Marie, Tony, and Cleo) |
| “… I made a fist!” (Herman) |
| Finale (Ensemble) |