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A cheap nightclub emcee Joey Evans,ditches his naive girlfriend Linda to romance a rich older woman, Vera Simpson. Vera set him up his own nightclub, and thus exposes herself to a cheap blackmail attempt by one of Joey's former colleagues, dancer Gladys Bumps, and her boyfriend Ludlow Lowell. This fails when Linda warns Vera what they are planning and Vera calls her friend the Police Commissioner; but she decides to kick Joey out anyway.
Music By Richard Rodgers
Lyrics By Lorenz Hart
Book/Libretto by: John O'Hara
Produced by: George Abbott
Choreography by: Robert Alton
Directed by: George Abbott
Type of Musical: Broadway
Movie Musical
Opened: December 25, 1940
Theatre: Ethel Barrymore Theatre
# of Performances: 374
Song List
- Overture
- You Musn't Kick It Around
- I Could Write A Book
- Chicago A Great Big Town
- That Terrific Rainbow
- What Is A Man
- Happy Hunting Horn
- Bewitched, Bothered, And Bewildered
- Pal Joey
- Flower Garden In My Heart
- Zip
- Plant You Now, Dig You Later
- In Our Little Den Of Inequity
- Do It The Hard Way
- Take Him
- Reprise: Bewitched
- Finale: I Could Write A Book
Cast List
Vivienne Segal, Gene Kelly, June Havoc, Jack Durant, Leila Ernst, Jean Casto, Van Johnson, Stanley Donen & Tilda Getze
1952 Revival Starred Vivienne Segal, Harold Lang, Helen Gallagher, Lionel Stander, Patricia Northrop, Elaine Stritch, Helen Wood, Barbara Nichols, Jack Waldron & Robert Fortier
1957 Screen Version starred Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth & Kim Novak.
1976 Revival starred Joan Copeland & Christopher Chadman
Misc. Show Information
1952 Revival
Produced by Jule Styne & Leonard Key
Directed by Robert Alton & David Alexander
Choreography by Robert Alton
Opened January 3, 1952 at the Broadhurst Theatre and ran for 540
performances.
Movie 1957
Revival 1976
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Added: Mon Aug 17 2009