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Pal Joey

Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
Book by John O'Hara
Produced by George Abbott
Choreography by Robert Alton
Directed by George Abbott
Opened December 25, 1940 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre and ran for 374 performances

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

Synopsis

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.

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

Info

Original Cast included: 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

Related

Pal Joey MIDI Files

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