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Résumé
The plot concerns a married woman who, at a college reunion, meets the man with whom she almost eloped ten years before. Romantically stirred by a novel he has written about her, she considers leaving her husband and reuniting with her former flame.
Historique du musical
Génèse du musical
The 1945 touring production closed in Chicago after three days due to a crippling coal strike. The show then opened at the Shubert Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts on October 30, 1945, with the Billboard Magazine critic writing "Lerner and Loewe look like potential supermen."
The musical opened on Broadway on November 22, 1945 at the National Theatre, and closed on April 13, 1946 after 167 performances. Directed by Edward Padula and choreographed by Antony Tudor, the cast included Lucille Benson, John Archer, Bert Freed, Irene Manning, and William Johnson.
The show was performed in July 2007 by the York Theatre Company in New York City as part of their Mufti Theatre series. The York staged concert starred Hunter Bell, Amanda Watkins, Richard Todd Adams, Edward Watts and Tia Speros. The restoration of the show was undertaken by musical supervisors Aaron Gandy, Mark York and director David Glenn Armstrong and included material that had been missing since the show closed on Broadway in 1946. A treasure trove of material was bought by the Library of Congress in 1999 which filled the missing holes in the score.
Détails
Liste des chansons
Act I
The Day Before Spring
God's Green World
You Haven't Changed at All
My Love Is a Married Man
Act II
Friends to the End
A Jug of Wine
I Love You This Morning
The Day Before Spring (Reprise)
Where's My Wife?
This is My Holiday
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Versions du musical
Versions majeures de Day before spring (The)
Version 1
Peter Townsend … John Archer
Alex Maitland … Bill Johnson
Gerald Barker … Tom Helmore
May Tompkins … Lucille Benson
Bill Tompkins … Bert Freed
Christopher Randolph … Patricia Marshall
Alex (in book) … Hugh Laing
Katherine (in book) … Mary Ellen Moylan
Eddie Warren … Dwight Marfield
Joe McDonald … Don Mayo (i)
Harry Scott … Robert Field
Voltaire … Paul Best
Plato … Ralph Glover
Freud … Hermann Leopoldi
Lucille/Vocal Ensemble … Bette Anderson
Leonore/Vocal Ensemble … Lucille Floetman
Susan/Vocal Ensemble … Arlouine Goodjohn
Marie/Vocal Ensemble … Karol Loraine
Marjorie/Vocal Ensemble … Estelle Loring
Anne/Vocal Ensemble … Betty Jean SmytheEn savoir plus sur cette version
Version 2
Peter Townsend … John Archer
Alex Maitland … Bill Johnson
Gerald Barker … Tom Helmore
May Tompkins … Lucille Benson
Bill Tompkins … Bert Freed
Christopher Randolph … Patricia Marshall
Alex (in book) … Hugh Laing
Katherine (in book) … Mary Ellen Moylan
Eddie Warren … Dwight Marfield
Joe McDonald … Don Mayo (i)
Harry Scott … Robert Field
Voltaire … Paul Best
Plato … Ralph Glover
Freud … Hermann Leopoldi
Lucille/Vocal Ensemble … Bette Anderson
Leonore/Vocal Ensemble … Lucille Floetman
Susan/Vocal Ensemble … Arlouine Goodjohn
Marie/Vocal Ensemble … Karol Loraine
Marjorie/Vocal Ensemble … Estelle Loring
Anne/Vocal Ensemble … Betty Jean SmytheEn savoir plus sur cette version
Version 3
Peter Townsend … John Archer
Alex Maitland … Bill Johnson
Gerald Barker … Tom Helmore
May Tompkins … Lucille Benson
Bill Tompkins … Bert Freed
Christopher Randolph … Patricia Marshall
Alex (in book) … Hugh Laing
Katherine (in book) … Mary Ellen Moylan
Eddie Warren … Dwight Marfield
Joe McDonald … Don Mayo (i)
Harry Scott … Robert Field
Voltaire … Paul Best
Plato … Ralph Glover
Freud … Hermann Leopoldi
Lucille/Vocal Ensemble … Bette Anderson
Leonore/Vocal Ensemble … Lucille Floetman
Susan/Vocal Ensemble … Arlouine Goodjohn
Marie/Vocal Ensemble … Karol Loraine
Marjorie/Vocal Ensemble … Estelle Loring
Anne/Vocal Ensemble … Betty Jean SmytheEn savoir plus sur cette version
Version 4
Peter Townsend … Michael Harrington
Alex Maitland … Gerald Sell
Gerald Barker … James A. ZemarelEn savoir plus sur cette version
Version 5
Peter Townsend … Richard Todd Adams
May Tompkins … Tia Speros
Bill Tompkins … Mark York
Alex Maitland … Ed Watts
Leonore … Summer Broyhill
Susan … Janine DiVita
Marie … Ashlee Fife
Lucille … Lindsay Packard
Gerald Barker … Hunter Bell
Eddie Warren / Freud … David Abeles
Joe McDonald / Voltaire … Daniel C. Levine
Harry Scott / Plato … Orville Mendoza
Christopher Randolph … Robyn KramerEn savoir plus sur cette version
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