My Favorite Year
Vivian Beaumont Theatre
Previews Began: October 31, 1992
Opening Night: December 10, 1992
Closing Night: January 10, 1993
Music: Stephen Flaherty
Lyrics: Lynn Ahrens
Book: Joseph Dougherty
Based on the 1982 film, which fictionalizes a real-life incident in which a drunken, faded, Errol Flynn-like movie idol guest stars on a live 1950s television comedy show, à la Sid Caesar’s Your Show of Shows.
Musical Numbers
Act One
Twenty Million People…….Benjy Stone, Company
Larger Than Life……………………………..Benjy Stone
The Musketeer Sketch…..Benjy Stone, Sy Benson,
King Kaiser, Alice Miller,
K. C. Downing, Leo Silver,
Herb Lee
Waldorf Suite………………………………….Benjy Stone
Rookie in the Ring…………Belle Steinberg Carroca
Manhattan….Alan Swann, Benjy Stone, Ensemble
Naked in Bethesda Fountain……………..Sy Benson,
K. C. Downing,
Leo Silver,
Herb Lee,
Alice Miller
The Gospel According to the King……King Kaiser,
Alan Swann,
Company
The Musketeer Sketch Rehearsal…….Benjy Stone,
Alan Swann,
Ensemble
Funny/The Duck Joke…………………K. C. Downing,
Alice Miller
The Musketeer Sketch Rehearsal (Part
II)………………..King Kaiser, Alan Swann, Ensemble
Welcome to Brooklyn……………………..Uncle Morty,
Rookie Carroca,
Belle Steinberg Carroca,
Aunt Sadie, Benjy Stone,
Alan Swann, Neighbors
If the World Were Like the Movies…..Alan Swann
Act Two
Exits……………………………………………….Alan Swann
Shut Up and Dance….K. C. Downing, Benjy Stone
Professional Showbizness Comedy……Alice Miller,
King Kaiser,
Ensemble
The Lights Come Up……Alan Swann, Benjy Stone
Maxford House………………….Maxford House Girls
The Musketeer Sketch Finale………………Company
My Favorite Year…………….Benjy Stone, Company