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Music By Cy Coleman
Lyrics By Betty Comden & Adolph Green
Book/Libretto by: Betty Comden & Adolph Green
Based on: plays by Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur and Bruce Millholland
Produced by: Robert Fryer, Mary Lea Johnson, James Cresson
Choreography by: Larry Fuller
Directed by: Harold Prince
Type of Musical: Broadway
Opened: February 19, 1978
Theatre: St. James Theatre, (New York)
# of Performances: 460
Licensing Agent: Samuel French ,Inc.

Synopsis

The action takes place in the early 1930's, mainly on the Twentieth Century Limited from Chicago to New York.

Song List

Act I

  • Overture
  • Stranded Again
  • Saddle up the Horse
  • On the Twentieth Century
  • I Rise Again
  • Veronique
  • I Have Written A Play
  • Together
  • Never
  • Our Private World
  • Repent
  • Mine
  • I've Got It All
  • On The Twentieth Century (Reprise)

Act II

  • Entr'acte: Life is Like A Train
  • Five Zeros
  • Sextet
  • She's a Nut
  • Babbette
  • The Legacy
  • Lily Oscar
  • On the Twentieth Century (Reprise)

Cast List

Ken Hilliard, Charles Rule, Ray Gill, Maris Clement, Carol Lurie, Hal Norman, George Coe, Dean Dittman, Keith Davice, Quitman Fludd III, Ray Stephens, Josephy Wise, Rufus Smith, Tom Batten and Stanley Simmonds.

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