Enchanted Evenings:The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber (109 page)

Scene—A Bower in Loveland.

[“Who Could Be Blue?” and “Little White House”] [cut in 1971 rehearsals]

“You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow” (Sung by Mr. Ben Stone and Miss Phyllis Rogers) [added in 1971 rehearsals]

“Love Will See Us Through” (Sung by Mr. Buddy Plummer and Miss Sally Durant) [added in 1971 rehearsals]

3. Buddy’s Folly

Scene—A Thoroughfare in Loveland.

“The God-Why-Don’t-You-Love-Me-Blues” (Sung and Danced by Mr. Buddy Plummer) (With the Assistance of Miss Suzanne Rogers and Miss Rita O’Connor) [added in 1971 rehearsals]

4. Sally’s Folly

Scene—A Boudoir in Loveland.

“Losing My Mind” (Sung by Mrs. Sally Durant Plummer) [added in 1971 rehearsals]

5. Phyllis’s Folly

Scene—A Honky-Tonk in Loveland.

“Uptown, Downtown” [cut in 1971 rehearsals]

“The Story of Lucy and Jessie” (Sung by Mrs. Phyllis Rogers Stone) (Danced by Mrs. Stone and The Dancing Ensemble) [added in 1971 rehearsals; cut in London
Follies
1987]

6. Ben’s Folly

Scene—A Supper Club in Loveland.

“Live, Laugh, Love” (Sung by Mr. Benjamin Stone) (Danced by Mr. Stone and The Dancing Ensemble) [cut in London
Follies
1987]

PLACE
: The stage of the Weismann Theatre, New York City
TIME
: 1970

Act I

“Beautiful Girls” (Roscoe and Company)

“Don’t Look at Me” (Sally, Ben)

“Rain on the Roof” (The Whitmans)

“Ah! Paris” (Solange)

“Broadway Baby” (Hattie)

“Waiting for the Girls Upstairs” (Buddy, Ben, Phyllis)

“Who’s That Woman” (Stella and Company)

“In Buddy’s Eyes” (Sally)

“Country House” (Phyllis and Ben) [replaced “The Road You Didn’t Take”]

“Too Many Mornings” (Ben, Sally)

Act II

“Social Dancing” (Company)

“I’m Still Here” (Carlotta)

“The Right Girl” (Buddy)

“Could I Leave You?” (Phyllis)

“One More Kiss” (Heidi, Young Heidi)

“Loveland” (Roscoe and Company) [rewritten in 1987]

“Love Will See Us Through” (Sung by Mr. Buddy Plummer and Miss Sally Durant) [revised as Double Duet in 1987]

“Buddy’s Blues” (Sung and Danced by Mr. Buddy Plummer) (With the Assistance of Miss Suzanne Rogers and Miss Rita O’Connor)

“Losing My Mind” (Sung by Mrs. Sally Durant Plummer)

“You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow” (Sung by Mr. Ben Stone and Miss Phyllis Rogers)

“Ah! But Underneath” (Sung by Mrs. Phyllis Rogers Stone) (Danced by

Mrs. Stone and the Dancing Ensemble) [replaced “The Story of Lucy and Jessie”]

“Make the Most of Your Music” (Sung by Mr. Benjamin Stone) (Danced by Mr. Stone and the Dancing Ensemble) [replaced “Live, Laugh, Love”]

Double Duet (Young Sally, Young Ben, Young Phyllis, and Young Buddy) [revised “Love Will See Us Through”]

THE PLACE
: London: Fleet Street and environs

THE TIME
: The 19th Century

Act I

“The Ballad of Sweeney Todd” (Company)

“No Place Like London” (Anthony, Todd Beggar Women Woman)

“The Barber and His Wife” (Todd)

“The Worst Pies in London” (Mrs. Lovett)

“Poor Thing” (Mrs. Lovett)

“My Friends” (Todd, Mrs. Lovett)

“Green Finch and Linnet Bird” (Johanna)

“Ah, Miss” (Anthony, Beggar Woman)

“Johanna” (Anthony)

“Pirelli’s Miracle Elixir” (Tobias, Dodd, Mrs. Lovett, Company}

“The Contest” (Pirelli)

“Wait” (Mrs. Lovett)

“Kiss Me” (Johanna, Anthony)

“Ladies in Their Sensitivities” (The Beadle)

Quartet (Johanna, Anthony, The Beadle, Judge Turpin)

“Pretty Women” (Todd, Judge Turpin)

“Epiphany” (Todd)

“A Little Priest” (Todd, Mrs. Lovett)

Act II

“God, That’s Good!” (Tobias, Mrs. Lovett, Todd, Beggar Woman, Customers

“Johanna” (Anthony, Todd, Johanna, Beggar Woman)

“By the Sea” (Mrs. Lovett)

“Not While I’m Around” (Tobias, Mrs. Lovett)

“Parlor Songs” (The Beadle, Mrs. Lovett)

“City on Fire!” (Lunatics, Johanna, Anthony)

Final Sequence (Anthony, Beggar Woman, Todd, Judge Turpin, Mrs. Lovett, Johanna, Tobias)

“The Ballad of Sweeney Todd” (Company)

No. 25: FOGG’S ASYLUM (COMPANY) (Vocal Score, p. 315)

“The engine roared, the motor hissed” (The Ballad of Sweeney Todd [based on Gregorian chant, “Dies Irae” or “Day of Wrath”])

No. 25A: FOGG’S PASSACAGLIA (Vocal Score, p. 321)

[First two notes, the half step of “Dies Irae,” repeated in the tenor line.]

No. 26: CITY ON FIRE! (LUNATICS, JOHANNA) (Vocal Score, p. 323)

“City on Fire!” (City on Fire!)

“Will we be married on Sunday?” (Kiss Me)

“City on Fire! [fragment]

No. 27: SEARCHING (PART I) (MRS. LOVETT, TODD, BEGGAR WOMAN) (Vocal Score, p. 327)

“Nothing’s gonna harm you, not while I’m around” (Not While I’m Around)

“City on Fire!” [fragment]

“Beadle… Beadle… No good hiding, I saw you” (Beggar Woman’s music in No Place Like London) [focuses on the half steps of the first two notes of the “Dies Irae”

“City on Fire!” [fragment]

No. 27A: SEARCHING (PART II) (ANTHONY, JOHANNA, BEGGAR WOMAN) (Vocal Score, p. 335; optional addition for the 1993 London production, p. 390)

“Poor Thing” [“There was a barber and his wife” underscoring]

“Ah, miss, look at me” (Ah, Miss)

“And we’ll sail the world and see its wonders” (No Place Like London)

“Beadle! Beadle! Where are you? [Beggar woman’s music in vocal line, “There was a barber and his wife” from Poor Thing underscoring]

No. 28: THE JUDGE’S RETURN (TODD, JUDGE) (Vocal Score, p. 341)

“The Judge. I have no time.” (Epiphany underscoring) [Sweeney slits the Beggar Woman’s throat]

“Pretty women” (Pretty Women) [Sweeney slits the Judge’s throat]

“Rest now, my friend” (My Friends) [Sweeney’s interrupted attempt to slit Johanna’s throat]

“Lift your razor high, Sweeney” (The Ballad of Sweeney Todd)

No. 29: FINAL SCENE (PART I) (TODD, MRS. LOVETT) (Vocal Score, p. 351)

Beggar Woman’s music for “Lucy” and underscoring (Epiphany)

“No, no, not lied at all” (Poor Thing) together with “Lucy… I’ve come home again” (Epiphany)

“Mrs. Lovett, you’re a bloody wonder” (A Little Priest)

“The history of the world, my pet” (A Little Priest)

“By the sea Mister Todd” [fragment] (By the Sea)

“And life is for the alive, my dear” (A Little Priest) [Sweeney throws Mrs. Lovett into the oven]

No. 29A: FINAL SCENE (PART II) (TODD) (Vocal Score, p. 359)

“There was a barber and his wife” (Poor Thing) [Tobias slits Sweeney’s throat]

No. 29B: THE BALLAD OF SWEENEY TODD (COMPANY) (Vocal Score, p. 362)

“Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd” (The Ballad of Sweeney Todd)

Act I

“Sunday in the Park with George” (Dot)

“No Life” (Jules, Yvonne)

“Color and Light” (Dot, George)

“Gossip” (Celeste #1, Celeste #2, Boatman, Nurse, Old Lady, Jules Yvonne)

“The Day Off” (George, Nurse, Franz, Frieda, Boatman, Soldier, Celeste #1, Celeste #2, Yvonne, Louise, Jules, Louis)

“Everybody Loves Louis” (Dot)

“Finishing the Hat” (George)

“We Do Not Belong Together” (Dot, George)

“Beautiful” (Old Lady, George)

“Sunday” (Company)

Act II

“It’s Hot Up Here” (Company)

“Chromolume #7” (George, Marie)

“Putting It Together” (George, Company)

“Children and Art” (Marie)

“Lesson #8” (George)

“Move On” (George, Dot)

“Sunday” (Company)

Prologue

The stage of the Paris Opéra, 1905

Auctioner, Raoul, and Company

OVERTURE

Act I, Paris 1861

Act II, Six Months Later