La Strada
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Previews Began: December 2, 1969
Opening Night: December 14, 1969
Closing Night: December 14, 1969
Music: Lionel Bart
Elliot Lawrence
Lyrics: Lionel Bart
Martin Charnin
Book: Charles K. Peck, Jr.
A naive young woman becomes the assistant to an abusive circus strongman, later befriending a clown who arouses the strongman’s jealousy, in this musical adaptation of Federico Fellini’s 1954 film.
Musical Numbers
ACT ONE
Seagull, Starfish, Pebble………………………….Gelsomina
The Great Zampano………………..Gelsomina, Zampano
What’s Going on Inside?……………………………Zampano
Belonging……………………………………………….Gelsomina
I Don’t Like You………………………………………Gelsomina
There’s a Circus in Town………………………………..Mario
You’re Musical……………………………..Mario, Gelsomina
Only More!……………………………………………..Gelsomina
ACT TWO
What a Man Gelsomina and Mama Lambrini
Everything Needs Something Gelsomina
Sooner or Later Mario
Sooner or Later (Reprise) Gelsomina
Belonging (Reprise)……Gelsomina
CAST
OPENING NIGHT
Bernadette Peters Gelsomina
John Coe The Old Man
Alberti
Peggy Cooper Mama Lambrini
Ensemble
Anne Hegira Mother
Larry Kert Mario
The fool
Lucille Patton Castra
Stephen Pearlman Zampano
Loretta Abbott Ensemble
Lisa Belleran Elsa
Glenn Brooks Ensemble
Hank Brunjes Ensemble
Connie Burnett Ensemble
Robert Carle Ensemble
Paul Charles Acrobat
Ensemble
Barbara Christopher Ensemble
Betsy Dickerson Ensemble
Harry Endicott Acrobat
Ensemble
Anna Maria Fanizzi Ensemble
Jack Fletcher Ensemble
Nino Galanti Ensemble
Susan Goeppinger Sophia
Sister Claudia
Ensemble
Rodney Griffin Ensemble
Mickey Gunnerson Ensemble
Kenneth Kreel Ensemble
Don Lopez Ensemble
Joyce Maret Ensemble
Stan Page Ensemble
Odette Panaccione Ensemble
Mary Ann Robbins Eva
Ensemble
Steven Ross Ensemble
Larry Small Ensemble
Eileen Taylor Ensemble
Understudies: Hank Brunjes (Mario), Peggy Cooper (Mother, Castra) and Lyn Lipton (Gelsomina)