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Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 4w, 6m
Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin Book by Moss Hart
Encores! Concert Adaptation by David Ives
At the height of the Great Depression, Hal Reisman desperately seeks backers for his Broadway show. When he turns to crooked cops, hilarious hijinks ensue in this Irving Berlin treasure.
Originally presented on Broadway by the legendary Sam Harris, Face the Music opened at the New Amsterdam Theater on February 17, 1932, and ran for 165 performances, before touring and then returning to Broadway's Forty-Fourth Street Theater. Sharply satirical, its humor both timely and timeless, Face the Music combined a piquant Moss Hart script with a superlative Irving Berlin score that featured such soon-to-be standards as "Let's Have Another Cup Of Coffee," "Soft Lights And Sweet Music," the ground-breaking "Manhattan Madness," and the utterly unique "I Say Its Spinach (And The Hell With It)."� After lying dormant for nearly seven decades, Face the Music was lovingly and painstakingly restored by a team of musical archivists led by R&H Director of Music Bruce Pomahac. With an adaptation by David Ives, direction by John Rando and choreography by Randy Skinner, Face the Music proved to be the discovery of the 14th season of City Center's Encores!: Great American Musicals in Concert.
1. "Overture" 2. "Lunching At The Automat" 3. "Let's Have Another Cup Of Coffee" 4. "Two Cheers Instead Of Three" 5. "The Police Of New York" 6. "Reisman's Doing A Show" 7. "Torch Song" 8. "You Must Be Born With It" 9. "(Castles In Spain) On A Roof In Manhattan" 10. "Crinoline Days" 11. "My Beautiful Rhinestone Girl" 12. "Soft Lights And Sweet Music" 13. "If You Believe" 14. "Well, Of All The Rotten Shows" 15. "I Say It's Spinach (And The Hell With It)" 16. "How Can I Change My Luck?" 17. "A Toast To Prohibition" 18. "I Don't Wanna Be Married (I Just Wanna Be Friends)" 19. "Manhattan Madness" 20. "Investigation" -
Full Orchestration Piano Reed I Reed II Reed III Reed IV Reed V Trumpet I Trumpet II Trumpet III Trombone Guitar-Banjo Piano Drums Percussion Violin I Violin II Violin III Violin IV Viola Cello Bass
1 Piano-Vocal 22 Libretto-Vocal 1 Reed 1 1 Reed 2 1 Reed 3 1 Reed 4 1 Reed 5 1 Trumpet 1 1 Trumpet 2 1 Trumpet 3 1 Trombone 1 Guitar-Banjo 1 Piano 1 Drums 1 Percussion 1 Violin 1 1 Violin 2 1 Violin 3 1 Violin 4 1 Viola 1 Cello 1 Bass
1 Piano-Vocal 22 Libretto-Vocal
With a life that spanned more than 100 years and a catalogue that boasts over 1,000 songs, Irving Berlin (1888-1989) epitomized Jerome Kern’s famous maxim that “Irving Berlin has no place in American music – he is American music.” Berlin wrote scores to 13 Broadway musicals, ...
Moss Hart (1904-1961) began his career as a playwright, director and producer in 1930 when, with George S. Kaufman, he wrote Once in a Lifetime. Subsequent Kaufman and Hart successes include Merrily We Roll Along, You Can't Take It With You and The Man Who Came To Dinner, amo ...
Multiple Authors
by Moss Hart, Irving Berl...
Moss Hart, Irving Berlin
by Multiple Authors