Musical Numbers
Jingle (Female Doctors)
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Jingle (Female Doctors)
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1. Jingle (Female Doctors)
2. I Live By My Wits (Female Doctors)
3. Three Menu Songs (Female Doctors)
4. Bankrupt Blues (Female Doctors)
5. Future For Sale (Female Doctors)
6. Life On The Inside - I (Female Doctors)
7. Strawberry - Blueberry (Female Doctors)
8. The More You Get (Female Doctors)
9. Money In The Bank (Female Doctors)
10. Life On The Inside - II (Female Doctors)
11. If You're Proposing (Female Doctors)
12. Swinging At The Stock Exchange (Female Doctors)
13. Doesn't It Bug You (Female Doctors)
14. Every New Beginning (Female Doctors)
15. Poor Boy (Female Doctors)
16. Dearest Man (Female Doctors)
17. Where Have You Been Hiding Till Now (Female Doctors)
18. He Lived By His Wits (Female Doctors)
19. Fireman's Song (Female Doctors)
20. What Are You Proposing (Female Doctors)
21. Doctors In The Chase Scene (Female Doctors)
22. Requiem (Female Doctors)
23. Let's Hear It For Daddy Moolah (Female Doctors)
24. Life On The Inside - III (Female Doctors)
Writer's Notes
Richard Foreman, I recall a meeting with Lyn Austin and Stanley Silverman at that moment in 1972 when they asked me to create a piece based on pre-existent songs by Stanley and Tom Hendry. 'My dream,' said Lyn, 'is to have an experience in the theatre that's like going into an art gallery and seeing all these wonderful paintings, or going to a lavish buffet dinner, passing from table to table and savoring just the right amount of whatever you like best. Just moving from one wonderful treat to another without any boring in between.'
So I tried to fill her dream by imagining one of my own, and, amazingly quickly, the songs crystallized into the odyssey of a confused young man, led by wacky doctors through a labyrinth of goblins and gargoyles springing up to confront the young man with wildly theatricalized versions of the major life crises and temptations -- wealth, sensuality, power, romance, nostalgia for lost innocence, and death. I imagined that young man lightly and ironically singing and dancing his way through a fun house, presided over by the mysterious Dr. Selavy ('C'est La Vie') -- an ironic androgynous persona created by modern art's most profound punster and master trickster, Marcel Duchamp. Then, during rehearsals, whenever a difficult moment arrived and I was wracking my brains for a new idea, I'd step outside under the trees (this was in Lenox, Massachusetts, where the piece was created) and say to myself, 'Now Richard, imagine, what would Marcel Duchamp invent to make this moment just a little more outrageous and delightful and funny? And indeed, the imaginary Duchamp came up with such items as the heavy wooden beam that keeps falling from the sky to knock a new idea or insight into our poor young hero's head.
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