*Songs followed by an asterisk in Broadway 1927 are not included in the McGlinn recording.
†Based on Kreuger, Show Boat, 226–27.
Appendix E: Anything Goes: 1934, 1962, and 1987
Broadway 1934
Act I
Scene 1:
The Weylin Caprice Bar.
“I Get a Kick Out of You” (Reno)
Scene 2:
The Afterdeck. Midnight sailing.
“Bon Voyage” (Boys/Girls)
“All through the Night” (Billy/Hope/Sailors)
Scene 3:
Mr. Whitney’s and Dr. Moon’s Cabins. The next morning.
“Sailor’s Chanty” (“There’ll Always Be a Lady Fair”) (Four Sailors)
Scene 4:
The Afterdeck. Same morning.
“Where Are the Men?” (1st & 2nd Girls/Girls’ Chorus)
“You’re the Top” (Reno/Billy)
Scene 5:
Sir Evelyn’s Cabin.
Reprise: “Sailor’s Chanty” (Four Sailors)
Scene 6:
The Deck.
“Anything Goes” (Reno/Four Sailors)
Reprise: “You’re the Top” (Reno)
Act II
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)
Off-Broadway Revival 1962
Act I
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)
Act II
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)
Vivian Beaumont Revival 1987
Act I
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)
Act II
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)
Appendix F: Porgy and Bess: Songs, Arias, and Themes (1935)
Published Vocal Score (Gershwin Publishing Corporation/Chappell & Co.)
Act I
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)
Act II
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)
Act III
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)
Appendix G: On Your Toes: Broadway 1936 and Broadway Revival 1983
Act I
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.
Act II
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.
Appendix H: Pal Joey: Broadway 1940 and Broadway Revival 1952
Act I
Scene 1:
Mike’s South Side Night Club. A September afternoon.
“Chicago [A Great Big Town]” (Joey)
“You Mustn’t Kick It Around” (Joey, Gladys, Agnes, The Kid, and Ensemble)
Scene 2:
The Pet Shop. That evening.
“I Could Write a Book” (Joey and Linda)
Scene 3:
Mike’s Night Club. An evening a month later.
Reprise: “Chicago” [“A Great Big Town”] (Ensemble)
“That Terrific Rainbow” (Gladys, Victor, and Ensemble)
Scene 4:
(a) A Phone Booth. (b) Vera’s Boudoir. The next afternoon.
“What Is a Man?” (Vera)
Scene 5:
Mike’s Night Club. After closing time that evening.
“Happy Hunting Horn” (Joey, Terry, and Ensemble)
Scene 6:
The Tailor Shop. A few days later.
“Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (Vera)
“Pal Joey” (Joey)
Scene 7:
Ballet.
Act II
Scene 1:
Chez Joey. A few weeks later.
“The Flower Garden of My Heart” (Gladys, Specialty Dancer, and Ensemble) [Louis, Gladys, and Ensemble]
“Zip” (Melba Snyder)
“Plant You Now, Dig You Later” (Lowell, Gladys, and Ensemble) [Gladys and Ensemble]
Scene 2:
Joey’s Apartment. The next morning.
“Den of Iniquity” (Vera and Joey)
Scene 3:
Chez Joey. That afternoon.
Reprise: “Chicago (Morocco)” (Dance and song)
“Do It the Hard Way” (Lowell, Gladys, and Ensemble) [act II, scene 4, sung by Joey]
Scene 4:
Joey’s Apartment. Later that afternoon.
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