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Music By Dick Gallagher
Lyrics By Mark Waldrop
Book/Libretto by: Mark Waldrop
Type of Musical: Off-Broadway
Opened: 1996
Licensing Agent: Samuel French ,Inc.
Synopsis
The show starts out with the protagonist, Howard Crabtree, being told by his high school career counselor that it's about time that he give up his obsession with the theater to get a "real job" and join the ranks of responsible adults in his rural home town in Missouri. But Howard is charmingly recalcitrant. He rejects the grim practicality of life in the Midwest in order to follow his dream-of putting on a play together with, and for "people like me." His counselor only rolls her eyes and tells him she is sure that he will succeed, "when pigs fly." But Howard sets out to prove her wrong and the series of exuberantly witty numbers that follow work as a kind of elaborate "coming out" in which Howard and four other gay men perform their way out of the closet.
Song List
- Prologue
- When Pigs Fly
- You've Got To Stay In The Game
- Torch Song #1 (Newt)
- Light In The Loafers
- Intro
- Quasimodo
- Lord Of The Fries
- Annie 3
- Torch Song #2 (Strom)
- Patriotic Finale, A
- Wear Your Vanity With Pride
- Hawaiian Wedding Song
- Cupid's Arrow
- Shaft Of Love
- Sam And Me
- Bigger Is Better
- Torch Song #3 (Rush)
- Laughing Matters
- Miss Roundhole Returns
- Over The Top / When Pigs Fly (Reprise)
Cast List
Jay Rogers, Stanley Bojarski, Keith Cromwell, John Treacy Egan, David Pevsner & Michael West
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Added: Fri Apr 08 2005
Last Modified: Wed Nov 15 2006