Honky Tonk Nights
Biltmore Theatre
Previews Began: June 23, 1986
Opening Night: August 7, 1986
Closing Night: August 9, 1986
Music: Michael Valenti
Lyrics: Ralph G. Allen
David Campbell
Book: Ralph G. Allen
David Campbell
A black vaudeville troupe moves from Hell’s Kitchen to Harlem, with its star duo getting some additional opportunities from white show business that require personal compromise and threaten to tear them apart.
Musical Numbers
ACT ONE
The Honky Tonk Nights Rag (or Professor Walker
and His Solo Symphony)……………………..The Sampson
Philharmonia
Honky Tonk Nights……….Sampson and His Company
Hot and Bothered………………………………Lily Meadows
Roll with the Punches………..Barney Walker, Ivy Vine,
Countess Aida, Kitty Stark,
Armistead Sampson, Ruby Bush
Lily of the Alley………….Billy Sampson, Winston Grey,
Sparks Roberts, Barney Walker,
Montgomery Boyd, Lily Meadows
Choosing a Husband’s a Delicate
Thing………………Barney Walker, Armistead Sampson,
George Gooseberry
Little Dark Bird………………………………….Lily Meadows
Withered Irish Rose….Barney Walker, Lily Meadows,
Montgomery Boyd,
George Gooseberry,
Armistead Sampson
A Lush Ballad……………Billy Sampson, Countess Aida,
Ivy Vine
Eggs………………………….Barney Walker, Lily Meadows
A Ticket to the Promised
Land…………………………………..The Sampson Company
ACT TWO
Overture: The Promised Land……….The Pyromaniacs
Stomp the Blues Away…………The Sampson Company
I’ve Had It………………….Barney Walker, Lily Meadows
The Sampson Beauties…………….Ivy Vine, Kitty Stark,
Ruby Bush
The Reform Song…………………………….Barney Walker,
George Gooseberry,
Armistead Sampson
I Took My Time…………………………………Lily Meadows
The Brothers Vendetto……………………Barney Walker,
George Gooseberry,
Armistead Sampson
A Man of Many Parts………………………..Barney Walker
Finale…………………………………The Sampson Company
CAST
OPENING NIGHT
Kaman Adilifu Sampson Philharmonia Member
Susan Beaubian Countess Aida
George Broderick Sampson Philharmonia Member
Teresa Burrell Lily Meadows
M. Demby Cain Montgomery Boyd
Lloyd Culbreath Sparks Roberts
John Gale Sampson Philharmonia Member
Yolanda Graves Ruby Bush
Ira Hawkins Billy Sampson
Robert Keller Sampson Philharmonia Member
Robin Kersey Kitty Stark
David Krane Sampson Philharmonia Member
Kyme Ivy Vine
Gregory Maker Sampson Philharmonia Member
Joe Morton Barney Walker
Charles Bernard Murray Patron
Keith Rozie Winston Grey
James Sedlar Sampson Philharmonia Member
Andrew Stein Sampson Philharmonia Member
Danny Strayhorn Armistead Sampson
Reginald Vel Johnson George Gooseberry
Quinten White Sampson Philharmonia Member
Understudies: Julia Lema-Jackson (Ruby Bush, Countess Aida, Kitty Stark)