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Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
Book by John O'Hara
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Show History
“Bewitched” by PAL JOEY In 1939, while out-of-town with their musical TOO MANY GIRLS, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart received a letter from writer John O'Hara, asking
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Awards
1952 Tony Awards- 3 Awards for the Original Broadway Production
- Best Actress, Supporting or Featured (Musical), Helen Gallagher
- Best Choreographer, Robert Alton
- Best Conductor and Musical Director, Max Meth
- 1 Nomination for Actor (Musical), Bob Fosse
1952 Donaldson Awards1952 New York Drama Critics Circle Awards
Articles & Interviews
6/26/2008 PAL JOEY on Broadway This Fall! Christian Hoff Stars in Title RoleRodgers & Hart's PAL JOEY, starring Stockard Channing, Christian Hoff and Martha Plimpton, begins performances on Nov. 14, 2008 on Broadway.
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Critic Quotes
"Brilliant, sardonic and strikingly original...an outstanding triumph...done with such zest and scornful relish that it achieves genuine power."
New York Herald Tribune, 1940
"PAL JOEY still bewitches after all these years"
Hollywood Reporter, 1995
"PAL JOEY must be everybody's favorite musical."
The Wall Street Journal, 1995
"PAL JOEY is a treasure, with Rodgers & Hart in peak form."
The New York Times, 1995
"The masterpiece of the long collaboration between composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Lorenz Hart."
Newsweek, 1995
Musical Numbers
I Could Write A Book (Joey, Linda)
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I Could Write A Book (Joey, Linda)
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 1. Overture (Joey, Linda)
2. A Great Big Town (Joey)
3. You Mustn't Kick It Around (Joey, the Girls)
 4. You Mustn't Kick It Around (Reprise) (Joey, the Girls)
5. Opening Scene 2 (Joey, the Girls)
6. I Could Write A Book (Joey, Linda)
7. A Great Big Town (Reprise) (Joey, Linda)
8. That Terrific Rainbow (Gladys, Victor, the Girls)
9. What Is A Man? (Vera)
10. Happy Hunting Horn (Joey and Chorus)
11. Bewitched (Vera)
12. Pal Joey (What Can I Do For A Dame?) (Joey)
13. Ballet (Joey)
14. Entr'acte (Joey)
15. The Flower Garden Of My Heart (Louis, Gladys, the Girls)
16. Zip (Melba)
17. Plant You Now, Dig You Later (Lowell, Gladys, the Girls)
18. Den Of Iniquity (Vera, Joey)
19. Do It The Hard Way (Lowell, Gladys, Chorus)
20. Take Him (Linda, Vera)
21. Take Him (Dance) (Linda, Vera)
22. Bewitched (Reprise) (Linda, Vera)
23. Change Of Scene (Linda, Vera)
24. I Could Write A Book (Joey)
Discography
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Pal Joey [1995 Encores! Cast]
Label: Drg Records Inc
Release date: January 1, 1995
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Rental Materials
| Rehearsal Set (22 Books, 1 Logo CD) |
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20 Libretto-Vocal Books
| 1 Logo CD
| 2 PIANO (PIANO VOCAL SCORE)
| | | | Orchestration Package (17 Books) |
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1 PIANO CONDUCTOR SCORE
| 1 PIANO (PIANO VOCAL SCORE)
| 1 REED I (Clarinet, Alto Sax, Flute, Piccolo)
| 1 REED II (Oboe, English Horn, Alto Sax, Clarinet)
| 1 REED III (Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Basset Horn, Tenor Sax)
| 1 REED IV (Clarinet, Flute, Piccolo, Tenor Sax)
| 1 REED V (Clarinet, Tenor Sax, Bassoon)
| 1 HORN
| 1 TRUMPET I-II
| 1 TRUMPET III
| 1 TROMBONE
| 1 PERCUSSION (see list below)
| 1 VIOLIN A (Divisi)
| 1 VIOLIN B (Divisi)
| 1 VIOLIN C (Divisi)
| 1 CELLO
| 1 Bass
| | | | Libretto/Vocal Books 10 pack |
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10 Libretto-Vocal Books
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Writer's Notes
Richard Rodgers, Larry Hart loved PAL JOEY not only because it was successful and people said good things about his work in it, but because of Joey himself. Joey is a disreputable character, and Larry understood and liked disreputable characters. He knew what John O'Hara knew -- that Joey was not disreputable because he was mean, but because he had too much imagination to behave himself, and because he was a little weak. If you don't understand this about Joey, you'll probably find him hard to take. If you do understand it, you'll be able to chuckle at him and understand him in more than a superficial sense. Joey as a person met with a great deal of resistance in 1940 when he was first presented to the American public, but I have an idea that this was due largely to the fact that nobody like Joey had ever been on the musical stage before. In the conventional sense, his characteristics were those of a villain, and so long as there was an orchestra in the pit, the villain was supposed to wear a black mustache and be nasty all the way. Since that time, however, characters in musical plays have become more human, and the attitude of the public toward these characters has become more human, too. While Joey himself may have been fairly adolescent in his thinking and his morality, the show bearing his name certainly wore long pants, and in many respects forced the entire musical comedy theatre to wear long pants for the first time. We were all pretty proud of this fact.
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