Onward Victoria
Martin Beck Theatre
Previews Began: November 25, 1980
Opening Night: December 14, 1980
Closing Night: December 14, 1980
Music: Keith Herrmann
Lyrics: Charlotte Anker
Irene Rosenberg
Book: Charlotte Anker
Irene Rosenberg
A musical biography of the 19th-century feminist icon Victoria Woodhull, who became a millionaire stockbroker and ran for President of the United States on a platform of free love and sexual equality.
Musical Numbers
Act One
The Age of Brass……………………Victoria Woodhull,
Tennie Claflin,
Henry Ward Beecher,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
Anthony Comstock,
Susan B. Anthony,
Theodore Tilton,
Beth Tilton,
Ensemble
Magnetic Healing…………………..Victoria Woodhull,
Tennie Claflin,
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Curiosity…………..William Evarts, Theodore Tilton,
Beth Tilton, Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Ensemble
Beecher’s Processional……..Henry Ward Beecher,
Congregation
I Depend On You…………………..Victoria Woodhull,
Tennie Claflin
Victoria’s Banner……………………Victoria Woodhull,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
Susan B. Anthony,
Tennie Claflin,
Ensemble
Changes…………………………………Victoria Woodhull
A Taste of Forever…………………Victoria Woodhull,
Theodore Tilton
Unescorted Women………………Charlie Delmonico,
Victoria Woodhull,
Tennie Claflin,
Ensemble
Act Two
Love and Joy………………………….Victoria Woodhull,
Henry Ward Beecher
Everyday I Do A Little Something for the
Lord……………………………………..Anthony Comstock
It’s Easy For Her……………….Henry Ward Beecher
You Cannot Drown the
Dreamer……………………………….Victoria Woodhull,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Respectable………………………………..Tennie Claflin
Another Life…………………………..Victoria Woodhull
Read It In the Weekly…………….Victoria Woodhull,
Henry Ward Beecher,
Anthony Comstock,
Theodore Tilton,
Tennie Claflin,
Newsboys, Readers
A Valentine For Beecher……………………..Ensemble
Beecher’s Defense…………………Victoria Woodhull
Another Life (Reprise)……………Victoria Woodhull,
Henry Ward Beecher
You Cannot Drown the Dreamer
(Reprise)…………Victoria Woodhull, Tennie Claflin