Harrigan 'N Hart
Longacre Theatre
Previews Began: January 10, 1985
Opening Night: January 31, 1985
Closing Night: February 3, 1985
Music: Max Showalter
Lyrics: Peter Walker
Book: Michael Stewart
The musicalized story of Edward Harrigan and Tony Hart, who made a memorable and pioneering musical-comedy team in the 1800s but were torn apart by Harrigan’s hateful wife and her distrust of Hart’s possible homosexual feelings for her husband.
Musical Numbers
ACT ONE
Put Me in My Little Bed………………………….Tony Hart
Wonderful Me……………..Edward Harrigan, Tony Hart
Mulligan Guard……………Edward Harrigan, Tony Hart
Put Me in My Little Bed (Reprise)……………Tony Hart
I Love to Follow a Band….Edward Harrigan, Company
Such an Education Has My Mary Ann…….Tony Hart,
Edward Harrigan,
Company
Maggie Murphy’s Home…….Annie Braham Harrigan,
Edward Harrigan,
Sam Nichols, Company
McNally’s Row of Flats……………Mrs. Annie Yeamons,
Company
Something New, Something Different…….Tony Hart,
Edward Harrigan,
Company
That’s My Partner……….Edward Harrigan, Tony Hart
She’s Our Gretel………..Edward Harrigan, Tony Hart,
Mrs. Annie Yeamons, Company
What You Need Is a Woman…………….Gerta Granville
Knights of the Mystic Star………Mrs. Annie Yeamons,
Company
Girl of the Mystic Star…………….Gerta Granville, Men
Mulligan Guard (Reprise)……………..Edward Harrigan,
Tony Hart
ACT TWO
Skidmore Fancy Ball………..Sam Nichols, Harry Mack,
Johnny Wild, Billy Gross
Sweetest Love………………………….Ada Lewis, Elsie Fay
The Old Barn Floor……Jennie Yeamons, Johnny Wild,
Chester Fox, Lily Fay
Silly Boy……Gerta Granville, Billy Gross, Harry Mack
Mulligan Guard (Reprise)……………..Edward Harrigan,
Tony Hart, Company
We’ll Be There……………Edward Harrigan, Tony Hart,
Company
Ada With the Golden Hair…Johnny Wild, Billy Gross,
Annie Braham Harrigan
That Old Featherbed………….Harry Mack, Fay Sisters
Sam Johnson’s Colored Cakewalk…………Sam Nichols,
Jennie Yeamons
Dip Me in the Golden Sea……………Edward Harrigan,
Mrs. Annie Yeamons,
Company
That’s My Partner (Reprise)………….Edward Harrigan
I’ve Come Home to Stay…………………………..Tony Hart
If I Could Trust Me…………………………………Tony Hart
Maggie Murphy’s Home (Reprise)……………….Lily Fay,
Ada Lewis,
Martin Hanley,
Mrs. Annie Yeamons
I’ve Come Home to Stay (Reprise)…..Tony Hart, Girls
I Need This One Chance…………………Gerta Granville
I Love to Follow a Band
(Reprise)……………..Annie Braham Harrigan, Company
Something New, Something Different
(Reprise)……..Edward Harrigan, Tony Hart, Company
CAST
OPENING NIGHT
Christine Ebersole Gerta Granville
Harry Groener Edward Harrigan
Mark Hamill Tony Hart
Armelia McQueen Mrs. Annie Yeamons
Tudi Roche Annie Braham Harrigan
Kenston Ames Chester Fox
Photographer
Newsboy
Newspaperman
Cleve Asbury Old Colonel
Billy Gross
Nat Goodwin
Clent Bowers Archie White
Sam Nichols
Felix Barker
Uncle Albert
Mark Fotopoulos Stetson
Andrew LeCouvrier
Judge
Johnny Wild
Captain
William Gill
Roxie Lucas Eleanor
Ada Lewis
Merilee Magnuson Lily Fay
Adelaide Harrigan
Nurse
Amelia Marshall Jennie Yeamons
Newsgirl
Barbara Moroz The Colonel’s Wife
Elsie Fay
Belle
Christopher Wells Alfred J. Dugan
Harry Mack
Judge Hilton
Doctor
Oliver Woodall Martin Hanley
Swings: Michael Gorman, Alison Mann